alignment

How to align a <div> to the middle of the page.

Hi! I have a div tag with hight set to 800px, I want that when the browser width is greater than 800px it shouldn't stretch the div but it should bring it to the middle of the page. ...

What portability issues are associated with byte-level access to pointers in C?

Purpose I am writing a small library for a larger project which supplies malloc/realloc/free wrapper-functions as well as a function which can tell you whether or not its parameter (of type void *) corresponds to live (not yet freed) memory allocated and managed by the library's wrapper-functions. Let's refer to this function as isgood_...

How do I get the position of the text baseline in a Label and a NumericUpDown?

I'm trying to align a Label and a NumericUpDown by their text baselines. I'm doing it in code, rather than the designer. How do I get the position of the text baseline? ...

'align' instruction on MIPS

What exactly do this instruction? I know that it try to align data with a multiple of a especific number but, why would you need to do this? Is there an equivalent instruccion in other assemblers? ...

Memory alignment on a 32-bit Intel processor

Intel's 32-bit processors such as Pentium have 64-bit wide data bus and therefore fetch 8 bytes per access. Based on this, I'm assuming that the physical addresses that these processors emit on the address bus are always multiples of 8. Firstly, is this conclusion correct? Secondly, if it is correct, then one should align data structu...

Aligned and unaligned memory accesses?

What is the difference between aligned and unaligned memory access? I work on an TMS320C64x DSP, and I want to use the intrinsic functions (C functions for assembly instructions) and it has ushort & _amem2(void *ptr); ushort & _mem2(void *ptr); , where _amem2 does an aligned access of 2bytes and _mem2 does unaligned access. When sh...

WPF TabItem Content alignment is always centered

I'm trying to put some content inside my TabItem, but I can't add a container that fills the space of the TabItem. Anything that I add shows up centered. I'm using a Theme from WPF Toolkit (WhistlerBlue.xaml), so I think that maybe it's that what is causing me this issue. I cannot remove the Theme, because I need it. At most I could ch...

CSS Issue with aligning panels within panels

Take a look at the image below. I defined the red boxes inside the blue box however they drift left into the black box. Interestingly enoguh, in older browsers or with compatibility mode checked, they look the way I want them to. It also looks the way I wish it to look in VS2008. Does any one have any ideas? Here is the CSS body { } .l...

Center Align Horizontal Accordion in IE (dynamic widths)

I'm trying to figure out how to center a horizontal accordion with no width given in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. I'm working in XHTML 1.0 Strict. In Webkit and Mozilla its just display:table. I've tried everything I can think of and anything one might LMGTFY me for... but it's just not working. I've posted the example at: http://able...

How to vertical align a text?

How to vertically align the text in a floated div? For example: I have a dynamic content with fixed height. if the content is small or big it has to automatically vertically align. Thanks ...

Simple CSS problem: Title text on upper left, Button on the upper right

I have a page where I need a piece of text to appear aligned to the upper left of an absolutely positioned element (a span, if it matters), and a button to appear aligned to the upper right of the same element. edit: Problem with this is even when I use float: right; and display: inline; the button still likes to drop the next line. Cu...

Text Alignment problem

How to control a running text? This is a user generated content, where user used to give with out giving space to the text. for example: abcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefgh This goes beyond the specific block. Is there is a way to wrap the text? how can i control it and i also want that to be worked...

vertical edge setting

What column setting do you use in the IDE for the vertical edge. I use 80 columns in line mode, but I wanted to know if this is common or is there a more common standard? I have seen other options like background mode, but found it too distracting. Vertical Edge, for those who are unfamiliar, is a line or an area which marks off the sec...

Breaking up radio buttons into columns in JSF

Hi When I am using h:selectOneRadio and supplying the list of values in a list as the entire radio button section is exposed as a single unbroken list. I need to arrange it in 3 columns. I have tried giving <h:panelGrid id="radioGrid" columns="3"> <h:selectOneRadio id="radio1" value="#{bean.var}"> <f:selectItems id="rval" value="#...

Can vim be made to only expand tabs to the left of text?

Using vim, I would like to effectively have expandtabs off if I'm to the left of any text on the line and on if I'm to the right of any non-whitespace character. (I would like to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment.) Can this be done? ...

How to fix page so it displays correctly in IE7?

Hi! A reader has just brought to my attention that IE7 on Windows XP Professional, ver 2002, SP 2 displays pages such as http://beachpaper.com/issues/current/page28.html to look like beachpaper.com/zimgnav/bperror.jpg, by pushing the large JPG to the right. However, the home page, beachpaper.com, displays correctly for him and it's built...

Align TextBox and Label text

Hello ! I'm designing a UI, and I found myself itching my head : how can I align a TextBox text and a label text, which are side by side. In design mode, it's easy, you move one with your mouse, a purple line appears and voila ! the alignment is good, but mine are code generated, so how can i align their contents ? Thank you ! Edit :...

Incorrectly aligned or overlapped by a non-object field error

I'm trying to create the following structure: [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit, Size=14)] public struct Message { [FieldOffset(0)] public ushort X; [FieldOffset(2)] [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst=5)] private ushort[] Y; [FieldOffset(12)] public ushort Z...

How to design a CSS for a centered floating confirm dialog?

Hi there, I'm looking for a way to display a confirm dialog that's always centered on the page, and floating over the page. Tried that, but it's not 'always centered' at all, since the position is fixed: .Popup { text-align:center; position: absolute; bottom: 10%; left: 27%; z-index:50; width: 400px; backgr...

div alignment in css on Chrome, FF and IE 7 on Windows XP

Hello everyone, i have problems with the alignment of divs. My layout consists of one div view_central which contains three other divs namely view_central_top, view_central_left and view_central_right. Chrome and FF render the wanted result: a top div with a bannner, the navigaiton to the left and the content to the right. IE 7 offse...