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Like CSS "float:right", but unselectable

I am trying to do what "float" do, but not selectable for copy. This is an example of how this is used: <p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, In a mollis est. Cras vel tortor in purus mattis venenatis. <span style="width: 5em; border: 1px solid black; float: right"> What does "venenatis" means? this is a margin notes! </span> Vivamus aliquam...

OCaml: How does List.fold_left work?

I'm trying to find the average of a list of floats. let avg l = List.fold_left ( +. ) 0 l /. List.length l;; How does List.fold_left work? (Applies the first argument to a list (the third arg)... but then what is the second argument?) Toplevel returns this error: Characters 43-44: List.fold_left ( +. ) 0 l /. List.length...

H2 Floats and Dynamic Div

Hey everyone, here is the site in question: http://www.myvintagesecret.com/ I have a bunch of posts on the front page. The header in in a H2 tag. Beside that, I will sometimes have a div called Clip. I want the title to wrap onto the next line IF there is a .clip div there. My problem is that IF there is a .clip div AND there is a lon...

Two spans in a div next to each other without floating

I've got two spans in a div. I want to align them next to each other. I'm doing this by floating them both left and right. The problem is that these spans have variable heights (they slide down when you click for 'more options'). So when their heights are changed during runtime (by sliding down), they won't push down the elements under t...

Floating Point Subtraction in C results zero

I have a code wriiten in C which is intended for a 16-bit microcontroller. The code essentially does lot of floating point arithmatic. The arithmatic works fine till the result is positive; but in case of subtraction if the expected result is negative; I get a zero. result = 0.005 - 0.001; is correctly computed as 0.004 result = 0...

Haskell converting Float to Int

I'm still new and trying to create a list for use in a function and want to keep it as small as possible which happens to be logBase x y. but I'm having trouble getting logBase into something I can use in this list. [1 .. (logBase x y)] Any suggestions? ...

IE8 float issue with CSS

I'm sure this must have been covered before because I'm sure I'm not the first to do this, but I can't find the answer. I am creating a shadow effect for a <div> using repeated background images. In the bottom two corners I use small 9x5 px images. I float them left and right and in Firefox and Safari they look perfect. In IE8 (and p...

Best element for clearing floats in CSS?

hi guys, I was wondering what the best element for clearing floated block-level elements would be? For now, I mostly used a div or a p element with clear: both; applied. What elements do you prefer, or what is something like the "best practice" for doing that? ...

Element margins ignored after floated element

I have a "cleared" <hr> tag with margins top and bottom. However, after two floated elements as columns, the top margin is ignored and the line sits right below the text. CSS: hr { width: 100%; height: 1px; border: 1px; background-color: #d3d7cf; color: #d3d7cf; clear: both; margin: 16px auto; } .column { text-align: center; f...

How to print a double with a comma

In C++ I've got a float/double variable. when I print this with for example cout the resulting string is period-delimited. cout << 3.1415 << endl $> 3.1415 Is there an easy way to force the double to be printed with a comma? cout << 3.1415 << endl $> 3,1415 ...

Pad python floats

I want to pad some percentage values so that there are always 3 units before the decimal place. With ints I could use '%03d' - is there an equivalent for floats? '%.3f' works for after the decimal place but '%03f' does nothing. ...

Format floats with standard json module

I am using the standard json module in python 2.6 to serialize a list of floats. However, I'm getting results like this: >>> import json >>> json.dumps([23.67, 23.97, 23.87]) '[23.670000000000002, 23.969999999999999, 23.870000000000001]' I want the floats to be formated with only two decimal digits. The output should look like this: ...

IE 6 Bug: float: none -> borders disappear

Hi, i have a class let's call it cell, .cms-block .cell{ width:520px; float:left;} .cms-block.wide .cell{width: auto; float:none} in IE 6, the child elements of .cms-block.wide .cell loose their borders/background colors. if I take away the float:none; the borders are there. but... the cell is floating left. argh. I looked around an...

Arithmetic in ruby

Why this code 7.30 - 7.20 in ruby returns 0.0999999999999996, not 0.10? But if i'll write 7.30 - 7.16, for example, everything will be ok, i'll get 0.14. What the problem, and how can i solve it? ...

What is the fastest int to float conversion on the iPhone?

i am converting some Int16's to float and then back again. and some int32 's to float and back again im just using a straight cast, but doing this quite a few times per second. (44100 any guesses what its for? :) ) is a cast efficient, can it be done any faster? ps compile for thumb is turned off ...

Reading a float from string

Hello, I have a simple string that I want to read into a float without losing any visible information as illustrated below: s = ' 1.0000\n' When I do f = float(s), I get f=1.0 How to trick this to get f=1.0000 ? Thank you ...

shortening javascipt number

Hello , I am looking for an efficient way to cut floating number at Javascript which are long. I need this because my output for taking percentage of two numbers can be sometimes like 99.4444444 while I am only interested in the first 2 digits after "." such as 99.44 My current percentage taking function for 2 numbers: function takePe...

How do you pass a float to ProgressView from another class?

I'm trying to pass ProgressView a float from a calculation made in another class. I've tried passing it by converting it to a NSDecimalNumber but I can't get it back to a float again when it reaches the destination. There's got to be a better way than this. ...

CSS: Force float to do a whole new line

I have a bunch of float: left elements and some are SLIGHTLY bigger than others. I want the newline to break and have the images float all the way to the left instead of getting stuck on a bigger element. Here is the page I'm talking about : http://www.stdicon.com/gartoon/ If they are all the same size if works beautifully : http://www...

How do I float a control over the top of an image (using the background of image)

Hi, I have a logo image across the entire top of my wesit page. The logo itself only takes up about one third of the left hand side. The right two thirds of this bar is plain and dark blue in color. I have several links and the user name displayed on the right side and would like to float those over the image. Originally, I had the...