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Page layout breaks only in Opera which is weird?

Okay so I'm working on an admin panel, in which everything should always be only within the view port until you hit the minimum widths and heights set. The current version of it can be seen here (its still in development) : http://qwibbledesigns.co.uk/preview/Admin/ In layout terms, it works flawlessly in all browsers, even down to ie...

What is the "W3C Markup Validator" button for on websites used for?

May websites, including professional ones usually have a "W3C Markup Validator" and "W3C CSS Validator." Why do you put them there? Is it just pride or is it justified? If it is more than pride, what justifies them? ...

ie7 preserve whitespace on dynamically injected text

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> function init(){ document.getElementById('test2').innerHTML = '1 2'; } </script> <style type="text/css"> #test{ white-space:pre; } #test2{ white-space:pre; } </style> <title>...

TEXTAREAs scroll by themselves (on IE8) every time you type one character

IE8 has a known bug (per connect.microsoft.com) where typing or pasting text into a TEXTAREA element will cause the textarea to scroll by itself. This is hugely annoying and shows up in many community sites, including Wikipedia. The repro is this: open the HTML below with IE8 (or use any long page on wikipedia which will exhibit the s...

div content margin pushing container

Hi, Im running into an issue that's really baffleing me. I have a container that I want to apply a background to an postion it in the top right of the browser screen. The div inside has a top margin of 4em and this is pushing the container div here is the CSS #container { background: transparent url("../images/house-bg.png") top right ...

who wrote 250k tests for webkit?

assuming a yield of 3 per hour, that's 83000 hours. 8 hours a day makes 10,500 days, divide by thirty to get 342 mythical man months. I call them mythical because writing 125 tests per person per week is unreal. can any wise soul out there on SO shed some light on what sort of mythical men write unreal quantities of tests for large soft...

CSS Position:Absolute with relative adjustment

I am trying to do a vertical dropdown menu. This is my code .menu li:hover>ul{ position:absolute; display:inline; left:120px; top:100px;} I use position: Absolute to remove the sub-menu from the table, once the menu gets hovered. It appears that, if I do not indicate top or left property. The sub-menu will displayed relatively...

IE8 problems with .animate() of opacity property - descendant remains opaque throughout

Basically I have something like this: <ul> <li> <a> <div class="trigger-layer"></div> <div class="title-layer">Text here</div> <div class="hover-layer"></div> </a> </li> </ul> I use jQuery to animate the <ul> as follow: $ul = xxx (where I assign the selector to var $ul) $ul.animate({opacity: 0}, 1000, function() {$ul.css("display", ...

Which sites/blog would you prefer to learn advanced pure css techniques

Possible Duplicate: The best CSS tutorial/site/blog/book. Which sites/blog (not book) would you prefer to learn advanced CSS techniques (not basic)? Site which updates new only css and pure css (no client side and server side) techniques, articles on daily or weekly basis. Or you can suggest any pure css rss feeds. My aim is...

How to position an element next to another an element of undefined position?

Hi, I am very new to html/xml/css and I'm trying my best to teach myself. However, I have run into a problem that a Google search could not solve. I would like to position a small image in a fixed location relative to another element(?) I believe this is the code of the element i want to position the second element relative to. <styl...

Should we use both overflow: hidden and display:inline?

For floated elements should we always define display:inline along with overflow:hidden, when we clear float using overflow:hidden? is it good for IE compatibility? should we always follow? #secondary-col { float:left; overflow:hidden; display:inline; } ...

Jquery Check if Paragraph is empty

Hi, I would like to check if my paragraph tag is empty using Jquery. Meaning without content. $(function() { $("#popupdialog").dialog(); }); HTML <div id="popupdialog"> <p></p> </div> Separate Instants. <div id="popupdialog" title="Basic dialog"> <p>This is the default dialog which is useful for displaying information. The ...

How to push the footer below the content?

Hi all, see 'http://ballpointradio.com/new/index.php', how do I get the footer (the Lorum Ipsum) to go below the lowest content, rather than moulding around it? Thanks! ...

Absolutely positioned element inside fixed positioned element

Related to my previous question, I have a <div style="position: fixed;"> footer. The footer contains <a style="display: block; float: left;"> elements. Upon clicking one of these links I want a div to popup above that link. I am experimenting with a couple of CSS settings and got acceptable results but I am not sure if my CSS will work a...

how to align floats in IE6

Good day! I am having problems displaying floated paragraphs and images in IE6. There was no problem displaying those in Opera and Firefox,though. I have three divs inside a container. Each div has its own paragraph and image either floated to the left or right. In order for me to achieve a desired layout, I set negative margins on mos...

Changing background image to a button

I am trying to change the backgound-image of a button but it doesn't work as I thought !! the CSS is OK and it is as follows : #ITA { float: right; margin: 5px 85px; width: 40px; height: 40px; background: #FFFFFF url("../ITA_off.png") center center no-repeat; border: 0; } my javascript function in the "HEAD" is...

Change of a background image of a button on onclick event

Why does this not work ? In Firebug, when I click on the button, it always says to me that cambiaBandiera is not defined ... HELP Alex CSS #ITA{ float:right; margin : 5px 85px; width:40px; height:40px; background : #FFFFFF url("../ITA_off.png") center center no-repeat; border:0; } JAVASCRIPT (in HEAD) <style type="text/javascrip...

Random padding above list?

Hi all, look at http://ballpointradio.com/new/index.php. Do you see above the Recent Tracks there's sort of padding? How do I get rid of this? Thanks, Sam. ...

Are free and open source templates, themes, self content management systems replacing the need of web designers?

Are free and open source templates, themes, self content management systems replacing the need of web designers? You can find templates online for pretty much anything these days. There are html and css templates, templates for Wordpress, all sorts of different cms templates, e-ecommerce templates, etc. Many of these are pretty cheap a...

Cross browser div center alignment using CSS

What is the easiest way to align a div whose position is relative horizontally and vertically using CSS ? The width and the height of the div is unknown, i.e. it should work for every div dimension and in all major browsers. I mean center alignment. I thought to make the horizontal alignment using: margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto...