html page size standard
what is the standard width of an html page today? i know it changed from 10 years ago when people had different monitors, etc. what is it as of 2009? Thanks! ...
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2nd column is tucking below the 1st column, what are common causes of this?
Hi, My HTML is too eleborate to post here. I have a 2 column layout, the 1st column is 160px and the 2nd column is much bigger. For some reason the 2nd column is tucking below the 1st column. What are common causes for this? Update What I want is this: Column#1 Column#2 What is displaying (firefox is ok, IE6 is causing the probl...
onkeydown event for html form not firing in IE 7 or FF 3
I am writing an asp.net application and have a form where a user must press a key to have a textbox become visible so that he/she can login. When the key is pressed, I want a label to disappear and a textbox to become visible. For some reason the 'onkeydown' event is not firing in FF or IE, but it works fine in Chrome. The application wi...
Choosing the right design for a website?
I'm a programmer (hobbyist, but looking to make it a career) by nature so when I was asked to design a website I felt a little out of place (most of my applications don't have pretty UI's, they just work because I'm the only one using them). I have been looking into how I could design my website and started wondering how you guys decide....
Get entire content of page?
So is it possible to snag the entire content of a page in its current state. For example, if interacting with a page, via jquery, I've modified the document by either inserting content, or by adding or removing class names. Is it possible to get the markup of this document in its current form from starting html tag to html tag? ...
Report decent printing in the web.
As a web systems programmer, I'd like to generate some reports and be able to send it to the printer directly from my user's browser, wich is in the client side, not needing to generate PDFs or something like this. I would like to be able to: Print user friendly paging, something like "Page 1 of 3" Print some things in the bottom of e...
Creating the checkbox dynamically using javascript?
I am trying to create a checkbox dynamically using following html/javascript. Any ideas why it doesnt work? <html> <head> </head> <body> <div id="cb"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> var cbh = document.getElementById('cb'); var val = '1'; var cap = 'Jan'; var cb = document.createElement('input'); cb.type = 'ch...
Avoiding browser incompatibilities when using animated PNG images
Animated PNG images (APNG) have been around for quite a while in an attempt to add this functionality of the GIF format to PNG images. According to Wikipedia they are supported in Opera (>= 9.5) and in Firefox (>= 3.0). The first frame in the APNG animation is displayed if a browser doesn't support APNG images, since it was defined as an...
Why does gzipped html file display without JS and CSS?
I have an html file saved in gzip format. The browser displays the html file but without the javascript and CSS. Non-zipped html files in the same directory do display correctly. In addition, I saved the source from the compressed html file and it reopened correctly, with JS and CSS applied. What is different about displaying the zipp...
iPhone keyboard in UIWebView does not go away
I have an UIWebView that loads a HTML form. When I select a text field the keyboard appears. When I type and hit "Go" the form is submitted and the next page loads, but the keyboard does not go away, it stays on the screen. The only way to get rid of the keyboard is to press the 'done' button on the keyboard or press the HTML submit ...
html table syntax validation
This should be an easy one. I have a table like so: <table> <tr> <td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> My firefox 3 validator says this is acceptable code. It just seems wrong to me, are there any possible issues leaving the table rows uneven like this? It works in IE7 too. ...
Is this the right place to call the RSS building function?
Is this the right place to call the function that builds the RSS? its for a reddit type of site. function save() { /* Here we do either a create or update operation depending on the value of the id field. Zero means create, non-zero update */ if(!get_magic_quot...
Accessible HTML Form input types - "submit" vs "image"
Is there any real difference to screen reader users (or any users really) whether i use "image" rather than "submit" as the type attribute for my form submission button? eg: <input type="submit" value="Submit!" /> vs <input type="image" src="myButtonImage.jpg" value="Submit!" alt="Submit!" /> ...
How to Fix Browser Compatibility
I have developed a html file. It is working fine in IE6 and IE7. When I run the same html file in IE8, the design is not the same and the Javascript is not working properly. It is showing browser's "Compatibility view"? How do I fix this? ...
The AJAX response: Data (JSON, XML) or HTML snippet?
I'm just wondering what is an "ideal" output format for the AJAX response? Pure data (JSON, XML) rendered into the page using some client-side JavaScript template engine? Or an HTML snippet rendered into the page "as-is"? What is your preference and why? ...
Can we do fade in and fade out in iframes
Hi everyone, Is it possible to make fade in and fade out transitions in iframes? Thanks & Regards Ravi ...
At the end of the day, why choose XHTML over HTML?
I wonder why I should use XHTML instead of HTML. XHTML is supposed to be "modularized", but I haven't seen any server side language take advantage of any of that. XHTML is also more strict, and I don't see the advantage. What does XHTML offer that I need so bad? How does it make my code "better"? EDIT: another question I found in the ...
Why doesn't font-size work in IE7
Hi, I have to following code fragment, and no matter what I set the font-size to, IE7 doesn't listen at all! All other browsers are working fine. Any ideas? <html> <head> <title>Test</title> <style type="text/css"> * {margin:0;padding:0;font-size:3em;font-family:Arial;} </style> </head> <body> <h1>A ...
Is there a simple 3-column, pure CSS layout?
One that doesn't require the following: Reliance on images (i.e. "faux columns") Some kind of weirdness or "hack" put in specifically for IE Requires IE to run in quirks mode Doesn't have strangeness like one of the three DIVs overlapping the others (i.e. "holy grail") Margins set to high negative numbers placing them well off the vie...
Is it true that newsletters in HTML should have a "table-based" layouts?
I read somewhere that when creating a HTML email, you should use the table-based layout. You should not be care about creating tableless css based layout. Is that true? I have to create a newsletter layout for my company, but I dont feel confortable writing 3 nested tables. ...