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How to create multi-column data entry form using CSS in Asp.Net?

Hi- While converting a desktop application to a web app, I've run across my ignorance when attempting to implement a multi-column data entry form using CSS. I'm resolved to avoid using tables for this type of thing, and while I found a good reference to laying out a data entry form, I can find nothing that applies to multiple-column lay...

Cross Browser Debugging between Firefox and Safari (or Chrome)

I've noticed that Safari and Chrome behave the same when it comes to HTML and CSS. However, there are differences between Firefox and Safari (and hence, Chrome as well). Sometimes things can look great in Firefox, but the CSS misbehaves in Safari and Chrome. The cause of the mis-behaviour can be attributed to "anything" (as opposed t...

How to display last div at top using CSS?

I have 4 different divs. The last one is footer. How can I put the last div at top using CSS? ...

Positioning in a three pane (header/body/footer) page

Below is an exceedingly simple HTML page. 1) I would like to add a menu across the top, which means that the position of that edit box may have to change(?) or must it? Is the text box positioned relative to its enclosing div (which will follw the menu's div)? 2) I want to add more form elements, and position them precisely, with coord...

Javascript transitions on CSS scaled images perform poorly

I am working on a front page gallery which has several images, scaled to fit the page via CSS. The images fade from one to the next (overtop of each other), and will resize if the user resizes the browser to use up the space. The problem is that the image fading performs terribly on most browsers and on all but the newest computers. ...

CSS Div Positioning

I am trying to build a two column header with minimum width of 1024px. I would like the window to cut of the right side of the site when a viewer's screen is smaller than 1024px, but I keep getting weird results, like the left side moving in. Thanks in advance. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w...

Left content cuts into right floated content

In the screen shot you see a list of items on the left (not floated) and a display box on the right (floated). How can I prevent the left item's li element from cutting into the display box. The li content follows the flow and breaks to a new line before running into the display box, but the li element, as in the container, does not. ...

remove or blur item from webpage

I have a site where if someone clicks on a particular item (image or swf) everything else on the page would either disappear or blur out. So the only thing left on the page that is visible is the thing that I just clicked. Is this possible to say everything change except this one div? ...

IE9 Beta: CSS features frozen? Multi-Column? Vendor Extensions?

Does anyone know authoritatively if the CSS feature set for IE9 is frozen as of IE9 Beta? I'm particularly wondering/disappointed about CSS multi-column. What I can't find on the Microsoft site is a current list (for IE9) of CSS vendor extensions with the -ms- prefix. Might be some of the basic multi-column features implemented there....

IE7 / IE8 Non Background Image Flickering

I am currently developing a site that users the jQuery superfish plugin to construct a 3 level deep drop down menu with rounded corners, drop shadows and all of that other head banging, screen smashing, anger inciting stuff us web developers love. The client is using IE8, and IE7 as well. At the end of each menu, I am placing a 24bit ro...

css stretching the 2 column grail to meet a footer

Hello, I am sure this is a common frustration - but I am trying to just do a two column liquid with a footer in rails. The problem that I am having is that I can get the footer to stick on the bottom, or to the columns. I am using this for my basis for the columns, I just need them to stretch to the bottom of the page, filling with ...

Transparent text box underlay

I'm looking to clone the Google Instant "underlay/type ahead" type look, where what the system is predicting is grayed out and infront of what you are typing. The technical part of it I am completely sorted, as well as representing the text. I simply am unable to work out how to do the CSS positioning and transparent textbox over the to...

align image to the right of h3

Hey everyone, I'm trying to position the following items but can't quite get it right. Her is the desired outcome: |Blah Bah (img)                           Link| The image is aligned to the right of the H3 on the left and the link is positioned to the far right. All is on the same line. <div style="float:left;"><h3>Blah Bah</h3...

What are some rarely used but cool CSS properties?

I have been using border-radius and box-shadow effects of moz and webkit. //For rounded corners -moz-border-radius:4px; -webkit-border-radius:4px; //For shadow effect -moz-box-shadow:2px 2px 5px #000; -webkit-box-shadow:2px 2px 5px #000; Anyother unknown css effects of moz and webkit. EDIT: I have got some more css properti...

JQuery UI Tabs - How to prevent styles being applied to content within tabs?

Hi all I have implemented the JQuery UI tabs and they work great, except for one problem... All my content's styles / classes are being overriden by JQuery's, which I do not want to happen.For example, I have a text box: If I inspect the styles in Firebug, I see this (in this order): .ui-widget :active { outline:medium none; } .ui...

Changing stylesheet for a partial

I have a Movie class in my Rails app, and I have a "_movie.html.erb" partial that displays the movie's title, its overall rating, and a brief summary. I want a stylesheet to apply to this particular partial, but nothing else in my app. How do I do this? In case it helps, I don't want to do some type of CSS classing on the partial inst...

How to use this square cursor in a HTML input field ?

How can I use this square cursor ( image below ) in the input tags ? ...

How can I float a bunch of block-level elements such that they occupy 50% of the width including border, padding, and margin?

Here's a mockup of what I'm going for: http://www.jsfiddle.net/Q3aN2/ It has a wrapper container, a bunch of <section> elements, and then some unwanted wrapper divs to space out the content. Is there a way of doing this that eliminates the unwanted markup? display: table-* perhaps? ...

Changing display property dynamically

I want to change the style:display property (none or block) of my div (displaydiv) according to the value of a global variable (disp). I want to check the value of this variable on page load and set the styel: display according to the value disp. i set the value of disp as "none" in javascript. i want to change the value within HTML TA...

Print footer on every printed page from website, across all browsers (Chrome)

Dear all, I tried CSS Position: Fixed Property but it does work properly on Firefox and IE(hack for IE6), but it's not working at all for Chrome. I thought Chrome being the latest will support it very easily but still it isn't. I Tried out <thead>,<tfoot><tbody> again works in IE and Firefox, but problematic in Chrome. Please any one ha...