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Why do CSS styles only take affect when placed in a style tag in my form and not in the associated CSS file?

Thanks to [this question][1] about repositioning the AJAX toolkit's CalloutExtender control, for an answer to my problem of positioning Validator CallOuts on a web form. Can someone tell me why adding the CSS classes directly to my web page within a <style> element has the desired effect but when adding the same classes to a linked CSS ...

Background image for drop down box

Hi everyone, Is it Possible to keep the background-image for drop down box using CSS. For Textbox is getting correctly. can anybody give sample example Thanks & Regards Ravi Kumar ...

CSS, display inline and three divs

Hi! I have this html code: <body> <div id="div0" style="display:inline; background-color:green; width:100%"> <div id="div1" style="display:inline; background-color:aqua;width:33%">&nbsp;</div> <div id="div2" style="display:inline; background-color:red;width:33%">&nbsp;</div> <div id="div3" style="display:inline; back...

Unwanted background-color in IE 6

Hi,I have an image and there is unwanted background-color coming to the image in IE6. Although it looks fine in all others IE6 messes it up with unwanted background-color.Any Ideas?? ...

Problems with layout of css page in ajax application

I have a css style, which when applied to a static html page works fine. The problem is, that content is dynamically loaded, into layer3, and then into layer 2. I don't really understand the consistency. Sometimes the layers are far apart, sometimes they are meshed over each other. Why is this happening, and how can I keep layer3 in a...

What's the best way to present information in multiple columns?

Hello, I have a basic page layout, and wanted to arrange information in columns. I have managed to do this, but I feel I have done this n a very poor way. I have made a layer and style called leftlayer, which floats to the left. Then 2 layers with a style called leftlayer2 which also floats to the left, to preserve the order I wanted ...

How to place an image over another?

How to put an image over another bigger image, like on youtube, a play button is displayed on top of video thumbnail? ...

Create CallOut using Javascript CSS and Div

I need to create a callout using Div which can popup when some validation goes wrong. I am working 1.1 framework so AjaxControlToolkit is out of question. I have even tried one sample provided at dailycoding.com. I hope there is some solution to it. ...

Indented hierarchical table structure

I am trying to create a hierarchical display of nested tables, where each sub level is indented further from the parent. I'm open to using table or div. The closest I've come is below. It looks mostly correct in IE (except that the borders on the right are mashed together). In Chrome the sub item border is extending beyond the parent on ...

Autosize Text Area (Multiline asp:TextBox)

I have a MultiLine asp:Textbox (a standard html textarea for those non-asp people) that I want to be auto-sized to fit all it's content only through css. The reason for this is that I want it to be of a specified height in the web browser, with scrolling enabled. I have implemented a print style sheet however and want all text located i...

How to generate a PDF from an HTML / CSS (including images) source in Python?

Let's say I've got an HTML / CSS page with some images in it, and I wanted to generate a PDF from that source in Python - possible? ...

Firefox 2 freezes when trying cross-browser inline-block trick.

I am trying to design a form that uses the CSS inline-block display value for a table-like arrangement. I know that some browsers including Firefox 2 don't know how to handle it, so I used this method to make it work in all browsers. However, sometimes when I try it in Firefox 2, the browser freezes. My CPU usage gets stuck near 100% and...

Learning jQuery and Getting Better at Javascript

over the last couple of years I've seen jquery grow leaps and bounds. And every time I look at some jquery code I feel there is something I am missing which I need to learn. I've given their documentation a try, and it seems to be ok for basic stuff. Can you guys suggest a good jquery book that might help? I'm looking for something ...

How do I make sure a relative position div expands to contain all the absolute position divs with in it?

say I have something like <body><div id="a"><div id="b">some content</div></div>more content<body> and I don't know how much height "some content" is going to be. But I have #b styled to position: absolute and #a styled to position: relative so #b's position is relative the the top left corner of #a. Is there some way I can make #a ...

Any recommendations for a CSS minifier?

Any recommendations for a CSS minifier? I’ll be rooting around Google and trying some out, but I suspected that the smart, proficient and curiously handsome StackOverflow community might have already evaluated the pros and cons of the heavyweights. ...

Resize image proportionally with CSS?

Is there a way to resize (scale down) images proportionally using ONLY CSS? I'm doing the JavaScript way, but just trying to see if this is possible with CSS. ...

Odd nitpicky issue with CSS relative positioning

I noticed an unusual issue today while throwing together a quick "under construction" type page where I'm moving text onto an image using relative positioning. (This page was "inspired" by SO's offline page, if you care) <html> <head> <title>Bronco Marching Band</title> </head> <body style="background-color: #888;"> <div s...

ASP.NET How to remove 'style' attribute from input type='image' control ?

i am using an asp:ImageButton server control; i set the CssClass attribute to my CSS style, in which i defined border:solid 1px red; .NET automatically renders an inline 'style' attribute as follows: style="border-width:0px;" Q1. Can i remove the automatic inline 'style' ? e.g. on the PreRender perhaps inspect the HTML and edit it? ...

CSS for a mail inbox

I'm completely new to CSS. But I'm writing a mail inbox where it's just like your typical e-mail inbox which contains 3 columns for From, Subject, Received. Can I get some basic CSS for formatting this data correctly (alignment, columning, etc.) from which I can build upon. Any cool interesting designs are also welcome. ...

How to make "text-overflow: ellipsis" for both "float:left" and "float:right" div?

I have a web design requirement to have a header like this: +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | +---------------------+ +-------++------------------------+| | | float left DIV A | | DIV C || float right DIV B || | +---------------------+ +-------++------------------------+| +---------------------...