<!DOCTYPE html> It is supposed to be backwards compatible with HTML4 and XHTML. John Resig posted about some of the benefits. As long as we don't use any of the new and not supported yet features, would there be any downside to start building sites with this doctype?...
Any suggestions for a relatively simple, free, WYSIWYG, HTML editor? I have a friend in need of a art portfolio website and I want to her feet wet without forcing her to learn raw HTML or an overly complex (and probably expensive) program. Extra points if somehow this free editor is OSS UPDATE: sorry, still drinking my coffee Windows...
I've seen a number of places recently that offer online HTML API documentation and also offer downloadable (usually .chm) help files. I really love using .chm help files, mainly because of the index tree on the left. What are the best tools for creating those types of files? Is there something that would allow me to have a bunch of HT...
I'm looking for a .NET regular expression extract all the URLs from a webpage but haven't found one to be comprehensive enough to cover all the different ways you can specify a link. And a side question: Is there 'one regex to rule them all'? Or am I better off using a series of less complicated regular expressions and just using mutlip...
I'm currently working on an internal sales application for the company I work for, and I've got a form that allows the user to change the delivery address. Now I think it would look much nicer, if the textarea I'm using for the main address details would just take up the area of the text in it, and automatically resize if the text was c...
When using IE, you cannot put an absolutely positioned div over a select input element. That's because the select element is considered an ActiveX object and is on top of every HTML element in the page. I already saw people hiding selects when opening a popup div, that leads to pretty bad user experience having controls disappearing. F...
We are in the initial planning stages of building out a mobile site for one of our clients. This mobile site will be in addition to the main site that we have already built for them. We've determined that the content is going to be a small subsection of the main site and will target the main audience that is expected to use the site. ...
I have an absolutely positioned div that I want to show when the user clicks a link. The onclick of the link calls a js function that sets the display of the div to block (also tried: "", inline, table-cell, inline-table, etc). This works great in IE7, not at all in every other browser I've tried (FF2, FF3, Opera 9.5, Safari). I've trie...
How can I left-align the numbers in an ordered list? 1. an item // skip some items for brevity 9. another item 10. notice the 1 is under the 9, and the item contents also line up Change the character after the number in an ordered list? 1) an item Also is there a CSS solution to change from numbers to alphabetic/roman lists inst...
Basically, something better than this: <input type="file" name="myfile" size="50"> First of all, the "browse" button looks different on every browser. Unlike the "submit" button on a form, you have to come up with some hack-y way to style it. Secondly, there's no progress indicator showing you how much of the file has uploaded. ...
I work with C# at work but dislike how with webforms it spews out a lot of JavaScript not including the many lines for viewstate that it creates. That's why I like coding with PHP as I have full control. But I was just wondering how this sites HTML is so clean and elegant? Does using MVC have something to do with it? I see that JQuery...
I'm trying to use jQuery to format code blocks, specifically to add a <pre> tag inside the <code> tag: $(document).ready(function() { $("code").wrapInner("<pre></pre>"); }); Firefox applies the formatting correctly, but IE puts the entire code block on one line. If I add an alert alert($("code").html()); I see that IE has inserte...
Do you know of any differences in handling HTML tags/properties in different browsers? For example, I once saw a page with a input tag with a maxlength field set to "2o". Firefox and Opera ignore the "o", and set the max length to 2, while Internet Explorer ignores the field altogether. Do you know of any more? (Note: seeing as this wil...
Is there some function like: document.getElementById("FirstDiv").clear() ? ...
What I mean by autolinking is the process by which wiki links inlined in page content are generated into either a hyperlink to the page (if it does exist) or a create link (if the page doesn't exist). With the parser I am using, this is a two step process - first, the page content is parsed and all of the links to wiki pages from the so...
We have a website that uses '#include file' command to roll info into some web pages. The authors can access the text files to update things like the occasional class or contact information for the department. My question is this, I don't see anyone using this method and wonder if it is a good idea to keep using it. If not, what metho...
There are lots of widgets provided by sites that are effectively bits of JavaScript that generate HTML through DOM manipulation or document.write(). Rather than slow the browser down even more with additional requests and trust yet another provider to be fast, reliable and not change the widget output, I want to execute* the JavaScript t...
Here is the scenario: I have a table with a margin-bottom of 19px. Below that I have a form that contains some fieldsets. One of them is floated right. The problem is that the margin-bottom is not getting the full 19px in IE7. I've gone through all of the IE7 css/margin/float bugs that I can think of and have tried remedies but have be...
I am looking for either a FireFox extension, or a similar program, that allows you to craft GET and POST requests. The user would put in a form action, and as many form key/value pairs as desired. It would also send any cookie information (or send the current cookies from any domain the user chooses.) The Web Developer add-on is almost w...
The collection of fonts available to a web developer is depressingly limited. I remember reading long ago about TrueDoc, as a way of shipping fonts alongside a website - but it seems to have languished. Has anybody used this, or something similar? Is it supported by enough browsers? Am I missing a good solution? Note that a responsible ...