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.net dropdownlist align text

I am trying to align the text in my .net dropdownlist to the right. Using CssClass I am able to align text to the right in Firefox. IE doesn't not align text to the right it aligns to the left. I have read that IE 6 doesn't support this. Is this true? I am using IE7 but most of my users will be in IE 6 so, both need to work. <asp...

Sharepoint webpart and overiding the css style

Have a look at this picture Does anyone know what css style is used for the line/border highlighted in red? I'm trying to over ride it in my custom style sheet but I’m not having any luck, so far I’ve tried overiding these different styles... .ms-viewheadertr .ms-vh2 .ms-vb .ms-vb2 .ms-unselectedtitle .ms-summarystandardbody ...

Concerns - Table layout, iFrames, code deprecation

I am working with a simple table-based layout that uses iFrames as depicted in the example below. This code is rendering well in all modern browsers. The iFrames are usually filled with long tables of data, but there is no odd behavior or clipping. My concern is that it LOOKS like a really bad hack to me. Table-based layout evils a...

Forcing anti-aliasing using css: Is this a myth?

Recently a client has complained about the appearance of a system font in IE6. Basically th issue is that IE6 doesn't support font-smoothing/anti-aliasing (I know you can turn it on in an OS setting or something). But someone threw out this gem: "You can force font anti-alias in css by using pt instead of px." I did a quick POC in vari...

Multi-line regex with overlapping matches

I'm working on a tool that parses files for CSS style declarations. It uses a very complicated regular expression that, besides the expected performance issues and a few minor bugs that aren't affecting me for now, is doing everything I'd like it to do except for one thing. I have it matching all combinations of element names, classes,...

Which stylesheet will be used? (IE conditional statements)

I'm needing to use a different stylesheet for IE, and I'm wondering about which stylesheet will take control. For example, I'll use this code in the <head>: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/style.css" /> <!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/ie.css" /><![endif]--> Then will I need to use !...

HTML - Sizing divs

Hi, I have a webpage with the following div's. <div id="main"> <div id=left></div> <div id=right></div> </div> As the body of the page is background color blue and assume div left and div right are white. when the content of say right div reaches the height of div main, div main does not expand so it looks odd. How do I get...

IE6 background-position(?) issue

I apply to stackoverflow as my last resort. I got this ie6 bug while using the image at the background of the link. It seems that ie6 scrolls the background. How can I avoid it? At some width it shows like this: And at some other it shows like that: IE7 & FF show this just like I expect: The links are placed inside the div which i...

jQuery Change Div Button States & Click Disable

The javascript jQuery code below works, except I would like to add 2 features to the button's state. When a user clicks one of the buttons, the other button that was not clicked gets a new class (look). Both button's state should change to unclickable. [div id="1" class="__button_image"] [/div] [div id="2" class="__button_image"] [...

Manipulating <td>'s within different <tr>'s

Hello, I'm wondering if the following can be done. I have a list of 'expenses' that I'm displaying in a table. 4 columns - amount, date, where, and what. I was thinking I'd like to make each clickable via jQuery which would expand that particular expense, inline, to show a more detailed description. What I'm trying to do is, on click...

How can I stack two arrow images (upvote/downvote) on top of eachother using CSS?

uparrow.gif and downarrow.gif So, it would look like so: How can I create 3 divs and style them with CSS so those arrows are positions with the top arrow above the bottom arrow? <div class="vote"> <div class="uparrow" /> <div class="downarrow" /> </div> Should I create a "vote" div with restricted width? Would I float: ...

How do I Make Firefox Print a Background-Color Style?

I have some simple CSS: #someElement { background-color:black; color:white; } It looks ok in the browser, but when I go to print it in Firefox it comes out as black text on a white background. I imagine this is some sort of ink-saving feature, but is there any way around it? ...

How to get the overflowed width of an element in a webpage

I have two divs like so <div id="parent" style="width:100px:overflow:hidden;"> <div id="child"> tooooooooooooooooooooo much content to fit in parent </div> </div> I'm dynamically updating the content of child and scrolling it using Jquery. I would like to be able to find how wide the child is so I know when to stop scro...

How to make sure my href's take prescedence over any other layers including flash?

Hello, I have built a media gallery for my site. The media gallery contains media items from sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. In the system that I'm using, no thumnail is generated for media items that I link to. So what I've done is just display a small "view" of the media in my media gallery. This means I'm just showing a small versi...

How to create a floating menu

Need some advice on creating a floating menu that behaves very similar to what is used on the apple website shopping cart. I've seen some scripts that do something like this (and we've tried one) but they tend to "lag" behind the movement while apple's version gives the appearance of being stationary. A jQuery solution would be preferabl...

CSS Footer which works in IE and firefox

Hi guys I'm trying to add a css footer but can't it to work right. For now I'm tweaking it like crazy and if it appears fine in firefox it gets all messed up in Internet Explorer 7 ahd sometimes is halfway up teh page :(. Is there any good example out there for a css based footer. Consider that my page has a fixed width, 2 columns of v...

Print using Javascript?

Hi all, I have particular division in my web page. i want to print that div only when click "print" in my web page. i have some javascript code. But that is not well formatted. Is there any javascript to print particular division from my web page? Thanks in advance Gnaniyar Zubair ...

Software developer with poor design skills -- where to turn?

I am software developer who is inept at UI / Website design. Could someone recommend me an online company that can help me build a usable web interface (CSS / images and layout) and then I will build the rest? I know there a plenty of books that would help but I would rather someone with a great deal of experience in this field to help m...

How to see the print media CSS in Firebug?

Firebug is an excellent tool to to show a screen media CSS for some HTML element, but is there a way to look at the print media CSS too? Or is there any other tool to see the print media CSS? ...

Margin collapsing with floated elements

According to the CSS 2.1 standard, the vertical margins of floating elements should not collapse with any adjacent elements. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#collapsing-margins But actually this is not what happens in all browsers (FF, Safari, Opera and Chrome) except IE6 (didn't try with IE7 or IE8 though). Here's the code: <...