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Styling regular form elements with jQueryUI

Hi. I'm using jQueryUI on my site, as well as http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/jquery%5Fui%5Fselectmenu%5Fan%5Faria%5Faccessible%5Fplugin%5Ffor%5Fstyling%5Fa%5Fhtml%5Fselect/ as replacement for select elements. But I have a problem to style other form elements, text and textarea. Have anybody idea how to do this right way? ...

How to make underlying div unclickable?

I made overlay div with: position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; widht: 100%; height: 100%; Basically I want this overlay div to cover my whole page. And it does what I need, but I also need underlying divs to be unclickable. They are indeed unclickable but only in FF, Safari and Chrome. in IE and Opera you can still click buttons that a...

4 columns elastic css with top-left box spanning 2 columns. How?

Im trying to make an elastic (em-based) css layout with four columns and a box that spans two columns in the top left corner. The four columns have the same width (say 20em, with 1em of margin) and the top-left box has variable height. (see a pic below) There is no need to have the four columns of the same height. How can I do it? I ha...

How can I fix this styling bug in IE6?

I have a site I deployed for a client using Joomla, and a good number of visitors are using IE6. The client informed me that there is a styling bug when someone does a search and has the option to change the order or the page count. When they get to that screen and hover over the Shop menu item in the nav bar on the top the menu shows ...

alt vs title vs filename?

For example: <img alt="Facebook logo" src="http://facebook.com/images/facebook-logo.gif" title="Link to home page"/> Which has more importance for Search engine, Alt text or image file name or title or all? ...

How to style <select> dropdown with css only without javascript?

Is there a css only way to style <select> dropdown? I need to style a form as much as humanly possible without any javascript intervention. What are the properties I can use to do so in CSS? This code needs to be compatible with all major browsers.IE6,7,8 All FF and safari versions Edit: I know i can make it with javascript http:/...

Large double quotes: best way to add them

I'm trying to wrap text in some big nice double quotes. I looked at this tutorial, but seems a little more complicated than I thought it should be. My gut tells me someone here in SO knows a smarter way. I'm open to anything: CSS, or PHP or Javascript, or Jquery (but preferably not JS/Jquery) ...

Should I be using XML + Stylesheets vs. XHTML and CSS?

I have been developing web apps for a while now and for the past year I have been really exploring as many technologies as possible. I know some people are creating pages using XML and XSLT or maybe css style sheets; however, it seems to me that the trends are still not moving in direction. Plus it seems less functional/easy than XHTML/C...

Highlight a section of an image in JavaScript

Hi Guys, I run a small webpage that allows users to click on various links using image maps. I'd like to highlight the section that a user clicks on to give some feedback to the user (they may be clicking on several different parts rapidly). Is there a way I can invert (or otherwise highlight) a small section of an image JavaScript?...

CSS Sprite now showing once uploadedhtr

http://www.keironlowe.host56.com/Website%20Testing/index.html At the bottom below the paragraph of text I have two images with hover effects one says Contact us and another says Jobs Available! These are there when I test the site on my local machine, but when I upload them to a server there not there when I load the page, the anchors ...

Vertical align a block

How on earth do you center a div vertically? Horizontal has enough ways already, but no matter what i try, vertical centering is just impossible. body { vertical-align: middle;} Does nothing body {text-align: middle;} Does nothing div.middle {top: 50%;} Does nothing Is it even possible? I think i'm gonna cry. ...

Does search engine read css file?

I found comments like this in top of many css files on many websites /* Theme Name: CSSnewbie V2 Theme URI: http://www.cssnewbie.com Description: Second version of CSSnewbie, based on Carrington theme by Crowd Favorite, designed by Jeremy Harrington of Crawlspace|Media, and developed by Rob Glazebrook. Version: 1.0.1 Author: Rob L Glaz...

Datalist displayed like a table

How can i achieve this layout (now its done with tables) and still have semantic markup, i guess the best suited tag for this would be dl. Every cell must have the height of their row. EDIT: the left column contains the description and the right the data. So i don't think this is well suited for tables. It would be if i would move the d...

What is the benefit to add @charset "ISO-8859-15"; at top in css file?

What is the benefit to add @charset "ISO-8859-15"; or @charset "utf-8"; at top in css? ...

want make Tiled Background in my site by css

hi my friends this is my site www dot jooria dot com i want make Tiled Background in the bottom of the page but i searched but i did not found the image what i want i want tree Tiled Background because as you see my all templete is green i watch this idea in a site but i cant remmber it please help me in choosing the Tiled Background im...

How can I add spaces between two <input> lines using CSS?

I want to control the layout with CSS. How can I regulate the spaces between <input> elements(I hope they are on two lines) using CSS? <form name="publish" id="publish" action="publishprocess.php" method="post" > Title:<input type="text" id="title" name="title" size="60" maxlength="110" value="<?php echo $title ?>" <br/><div>Co...

4 fixed width columns with top-left box spanning 2 columns. Centered. How?

Each column has a fixed width of 200px with a 20px margin. The top-left box and the columns have variable height. Like this Tor Valamo kindly provided an answer to a similar question (that being elastic, this is fixed), but I cant centre the layout, as it uses position: absolute. How can I do it? I know that using a table with colsp...

css optimization

hello guys, I noticed that digg.com and google.com are using kind of css optimization in their gif header image. for example digg uses this image http://digg.com/img/menu-current.gif . can any one give me an idea why they are using this technique and how to do it in my own site? regards, ...

How to convert unordered list into nicely styled <select> dropdown using jquery?

How do I convert an unordered list in this format: <ul class="selectdropdown"> <li><a href="one.html" target="_blank">one</a></li> <li><a href="two.html" target="_blank">two</a></li> <li><a href="three.html" target="_blank">three</a></li> <li><a href="four.html" target="_blank">four</a></li> <li><a href="five.html" t...

CSS on BODY - changes not taking affect?

hi, i have this... body { font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: xx-small; color: #008080; } on the top of my style sheet, and non of those specs are taking affect on my page, nothing, i tried doing it on td, table, tr, span, div just in case i needed to be more specific, but nothing is working, i want to make global change...