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Narrow single column of text in a webpage

Hello, I'm making a very simple html webpage consisting only of text. How can I narrow the single column to make it easier for the reader to read? I would like the body of text to be roughly in the center of the page and left aligned, with margins of white space (roughly equal) to left and right. ...

2 column full height layout in IE6

So I am trying to replicate this in IE6: http://lynet.ca/~alumb/layout.html It works perfectly in FF and Chrome, but fails miserably in IE6. Any suggestions? Here is the full set of requirements: +-----------------------------+ | NavBar | |-----------------------------| |Menu | Content | | | ...

Auto-size dynamic text to fill fixed size container.

I need to display user entered text into a fixed size div. What i want is for the font size to be automatically adjusted so that the text fills the box as much as possible. So - If the div is 400px x 300px. If someone enters ABC then it's really big font. If they enter a paragraph, then it would be a tiny font. I'd probably want to ...

html footer moves to right when table is empty?

Have a table of data surrounded by form tags. At the bottom of the page have a footer that is fixed. When the table is empty (only table header displaying) the entire footer shifts half way off the screen, to the right. Any ideas? Thanks! <form action="/cgi-bin/Lib.exe" method=POST name="dd" ID="Form1"> <div id="yyy"> ...

Odd javascript Error (using jQuery)

I have a code that grabs the buttons click and then vanishes the actual content and makes the content of the clicked item appear. I have it running along with other thins in an init.js file that is I have: $(function() { $('#contacto').fancybox({ 'hideOnContentClick': false, 'frameWidth': 600, 'frameHeight': 550, ...

How do Identified animation is flash animation or flex animation ?

**In this Developing site URL ( http://slide.zhoyosoft.com ) one intro animation is there . How do Identified that intro animation is flash animation or flex animation ?** ...

transforming xml embedded in html

Hi, suppose I have xml inside an html document like <html> <body> <xml> <foo> <bar /> <baz /> </foo> </xml> </body> </html> What is the best way to apply xslt to the xml node? ...

PNG Transparency in IE6 - Need help with "How to apply hack for stylesheet"

Hi, I am trying to apply css for my table as show in sample "9.Table Background" as given in the below link. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/13/top-10-css-table-designs/ It is working finr in IE-7 and fire fox. A comment for that sample is specified - " IE 6 users won’t see the transparent background if the hack is not ...

Allowing html tags in a postback

I've got a textbox where the user can enter text that includes html markup. Of course, when the page does anything that involves a postback, it breaks (error 500) because the parser thinks the html code in the textbox is a hack attempt. Now, I know there is a way to allow it, but I can't for the life of me remember. Help? I'm using V...

swf movie over a html page (posh popup)

Hi everyone, I looking to hack something like this: An example >> Just click on "Start PicLens Lite Slideshow PicLens". Did you see how the swf/flash loads on top of the normal page? Im looking to do that :-D If there is some code out there the better otherwise any tips or hits are welcome. Thanks lots. ...

Sidebar not displaying properly in Opera

Even on my very best days I am absolutely dismal at tracking down browser display issues. In Opera, the left-hand sidebar on this page ( http://www.taysf.org/about ) is not displaying properly. In every other browser, the sidebar has an orange-stripe-tan-block background, and for a reason I can not fathom that background does not displ...

Why does IE make password boxes smaller than text boxes?

See the simple form below. It's just a text box on top of a password box. If you look at it in Internet Explorer 7 (and 8, and probably others) the text box is 10 pixels wider than the password box. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Cont...

How can I fill the remaining space when dealing with an inline ul?

I used this CSS to make my ULs look fancy ul, li { padding: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: inline; } li { border: solid 1px #333333; margin-right: 5px; padding: 2px; background-color: #222222; color: #999999; } I'd like to have a final, empty list item that has the same graphical style fill up t...

Where's my URL parameter?

I have a legacy web page made with frames (yah, I know). One frame (letFrame) is trying to update another frame (rightFrame) with the following anchor: <a href="foo.asp?myVar=BAR" target=rightFrame> foo.asp is already loaded in rightFrame and looks something like this <%@ Language=VBScript %> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="MYNAME" Content...

ASP.NET POST Problem

I'm new to ASP.NET and have a form tag on an ascx user control. I'm unable to submit the form from javascript because I found out that this form is nested inside a form called 'aspnetForm'. If I just want to make a post to a cgi, how can I accomplish this? ...

Any value in double script tags?

I've seen this in a few pieces of code and I didn't want to "assume" it was unimportant but this is a copy of the Google Analytics code: <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analyt...

Dropdownlist Checkbox

If you have ever used SQL reporting services, there are some dropdown lists that pop down with a checkbox list in it. It allows a user to select multi items very nicely. Does anyone know a free User control or an example of this implemented. Ok, so I know I can do this with some elbow grease and html, was just trying to see if there was ...

Using SVG in GWT

I was wondering if it is possible to include SVG content inside a panel (or whatever would work in GWT), be able to add more to the SVG (like add a circle or a curve) programmatically , and handle mouse events (would this be in SVG or GWT?). I've tried creating an HTML object adding something along the lines of: <svg xmlns="http://www....

Escape tags in html

What are escape tags in html? are they &#34; &#60; &#62; to represent ", <, > And how do these work? Is that hex, or what is it. How is it made, and why aren't they just the characters themselves? ...

POST Request (Javascript)

How do you make a simple POST request in Javascript without using a forms and without posting back? ...