I'd like to have a handler fire whenever the user scrolls, but I don't want it to happen when the browser scrolls on behalf of the user. For example, the document below scrolls itself as part of onload. This fires my onscroll handler, but I don't want it to. Even if I remove the onload, there's still a problem: if the user scrolls and th...
When editing non-WYSIWYG (LaTeX, HTML, etc) prose you probably want to have newlines at the ends of your sentences. This has several advantages: Easier to rearrange sentences. Easier to comment out sentences. Easier to spot run-on / overly long sentences. Easier to comment on sentences. For example: % The following isn't strictly ...
When I'm working on HTML or CSS, I'm constantly trying to figure out "How many pixels of padding are inside this element? And what color is it? And is that left margin three pixels wide or four?" Is there a Linux application or set of applications that magnifies part of the screen and provides a pixel ruler and color picker within that ...
Hey everyone, I'm making a template that is relying on a lot on a tabbed interface and in order to make it a bit more intuitive, I want to make sure that a user can click anywhere in the tab in order to activate it, instead of having to click the text inside the tab. In order to achive this, I'm currently doing this: <div class="tab" o...
Hiding a DIV would be easy enough in Javascript, but is there some Rails-y way to do it? I can think of some ways to do it by calling Javascript from a partial (.erb), of course, but I'd prefer not to write any Javascript at all. Possible? Edit: The page is loaded and I would like to hide the DIV after (well, on) an Ajax call, so I'm in...
I have a form served in non-UTF-8 (it’s actually in Windows-1251). People, of course, post there any characters they like to. The browser helpfully converts the unpresentable-in-Windows-1251 characters to html entities so I can still recognise them. For example, if user types an →, I receive an →. That’s partially great, like, if I...
Scenario: You have a SWF file with a built-in click event that takes you to a certain web page. You want to use that SWF file (source isn't available), but have the click event take you to a different web page. Wrapping the embedded SWF in an anchor tag and setting the swf to wmode=transparent only seems to work in FF, not IE, and sin...
New to javascript, my problem is effectively: I have a php page that produces a single form with multiple process blocks or sections each with a group of checkboxes eg <form action='./this.php' method='POST'> One<br> <input type='checkbox' name='one[part1]'>a<br> <input type='checkbox' name='one[part2]'>b<br> <input type='checkbox' nam...
I am having some trouble creating a experimental 'dynamic' style website. The site is set up as follows. The user has a menu of links to choose from, specifically using an image map. When they hover over a selection, an iframe pops up (becomes visible) displaying some data. When the user removes the mouse the iframe goes away, until t...
My understanding is that APPLET is deprecated and OBJECT is the preferred tag to use for Java applets. Is this correct? A lot of Java applet examples, both on the web and in books, still seem to use the APPLET tag. Are there any browser compatibility issues that OBJECT suffers from (compared to APPLET)? Also, can you provide an examp...
So if you have a html List Box, also called a multiple select, and you want to generate a comma delimited string that lists all the values in that List Box you can you can do that with the following example. The list_to_string() js function is the only important thing here. You can play with this page at http://josh.gourneau.com/sandbox...
I have been pondering on this over the last couple of days. I'm currently writing a web application (actually adding a screen to an existing, extensive application). I know that using "tables" for layout is a big no-no. But in this app, all of the pages use tables for layout. I decided to do my new page using divs instead. But I came ac...
I'm trying to make a little gallery of some school works I've done in my animation class. I want to put 3 images on each line and they are all in divs because I did onion skin wrapping for a dropshadow on them. Unfortunately this makes them all just stick together in two lines across the page. But I want them specifically formatted so I ...
What are the topics we should pay attention while designing web site for Internet Explorer 8? Is there any new standard,we should obey for best appearance? ...
I have a DropDownList populated from a LINQ query. As per the design requirements of this project, I need to append 4 " " to the DDL's ListItem.Text. It works when I add the ListItems manually like so: <asp:ListItem Value="NULL">&nsbp;&nsbp;&nsbp;&nsbp;Select One</asp:ListItem> but not when I DataBind() and use: DataTextFormatStrin...
The html documentation generated by doxygen for enums lists the enum to the left and the documentation to the right. However I need quite detailed documentation for each value and some of the names are very long thus making the right column with the documentation appear far out to the right and it looks very bad. Is there no possibility ...
I am trying to put a link in a <th> element and have the <a> element fill the entire space of the <th>. While I can get it to fille horizontally with width:100%, getting it to fill vertically is proving to be troublesome. height:100% seems to have no effect. I want to do this so that the user can click anywhere in the cell to activate t...
Short Version: Do you know of any way to get an input button (submit) and an anchor tag to render the same visually using CSS and no Javascript? Long Version: I'm developing an ASP.NET MVC application. The site contains pages to view the details of or to create or update my models. The page actions are contained at the bottom of...
I have been trying to use Server Side Includes on my website to save time writing code and be able to change site wide elements quickly and easily. However i cannot seem to get them to work, either locally or on the Server. I have set them up as .html files (with only the code needed and no html or body tags) in a "ssi" folder and am c...
Inherited an app with a page that has a link that calls the javascript function addValueClick(), when I do this a dialog box pops up, I type in some text, and then the text gets put in the select box. Every time a new option is added to the select it gets about 5 pixels narrower. I can't figure out why this is happening, but it only hap...