I have a textarea with many lines of input, and a JavaScript event fires that necessitates I scroll the textarea to line 345. scrollTop sort of does what I want, except as far as I can tell it's pixel level, and I want something that operates on a line level. What also complicates things is that, afaik once again, it's not possible to m...
I have saved input from a textarea element to a TEXT column in MySQL. I'm using PHP to pull that data out of the database and want to display it in a p element while still showing the whitespace that the user entered (e.g. multiple spaces and newlines). I've tried a pre tag but it doesn't obey the width set in the containing div elemen...
How do I initialize an automatic download of a file in IE? For example in the download page, I want the download link to appear and a message: "If you download doesn't start automatically .... etc". The download should begin shortly after the page loads. In FireFox this is easy just need to include a meta tag in the header < meta http...
I just started working for a pretty large company and my group manages all of their public facing websites. I opened the style sheet for the first time today and have seen over 20 instances of the designers using the voice-family hack to fix an IE bug. (I don't know why they allow graphic designers to write any kind of markup at all) W...
We could also include IFrames as well. ...
I have a website where we use Javascript to submit the login form. On Firefox it prompts the user to remember their password, when they login, but on IE7 it doesn't. After doing some research it looks like the user is only prompted in IE7 when the form is submitted via a Submit control. I've created some sample html to prove this is t...
break line tag is not working in firefox, neither in chrome. When i see the source of my page i get: <p>Zugang zu Testaccount:</br></br>peter petrelli </br></br>sein Standardpwd.</br></br>peter.heroes.com</p> However when i do view selected source, i get: <p>Zugang zu Testaccount: peter petrelli sein Standardpwd. peter.heroes.com<...
How do I limit the types of HTML that a user can input into a textbox? I'm running a small forum using some custom software that I'm beta testing, but I need to know how to limit the HTML input. Any suggestions? ...
Which type of input is least vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection attacks. PHP, HTML, BBCode, etc. I need to know for a forum I'm helping a friend set up. ...
Let's say I've got a website that works better if a client has installed and logged into a desktop application. I'd like to be able to do 2 things: Alter the website if they haven't installed the app (to make it easy for them to find a link to the installer) If they've installed the app on a couple of machines, determine which machine...
What is the best client side http library to upload multiple files? If it can handle directories that's a huge bonus. I'm looking for something that is open source or free. I'm looking for something like FTP, but that works over http, through the browser. Uploading multiple files through a normal HTML 4.x form is a bit of a hassle when i...
How can I find the X Y coordinates of an HTML element (DIV) from Javascript if they were not explicitly set? ...
I'd like to have an HTML page which displays a single PNG or JPEG image. I want the image to take up the whole screen but when I do this: <img src="whatever.jpeg" width="100%" height="100%" /> It just stretches the image and messes up the aspect ratio. How do I solve this so the image has the correct aspect ratio while scaling to the ...
What Javascript libraries can you recommend for syntax highlighting <code> blocks in HTML? (One suggestion per answer please). ...
I use Visual Basic and an automation interface to retrieve strings from an external application. These strings contain simple html formatting codes (<b>, <i>, etc.). Is there any easy function in Visual Basic for Word to insert these strings into a word document and convert the html formatting codes to word formatting? ...
I need to convert Word binary documents (version 97 up to 2003) into HTML documents programatically. I have googled for 3rd party libraries but most results are junk built on top of System.IO.Package which, ofcourse, are useless for other word documents except Word 2007 - Office Open XML. Do you know a good tool / library for .NET to pr...
Hi there, I would like to draw a diagram in HTML. The positioning structure looks like this: <div id='hostDiv'> <div id='backgroundDiv'> ... drawing the background ... </div> <div id='foregroundDiv' style='position: absolute;'> ... drawing the foreground ... </div> </div> The foreground contains a Table ...
I'm trying to have two inputs (one textbox, one drop down) to have the same width. You can set the width through css, but for some reason, the select box is always a few pixels smaller. It seems this only happens with the xhtml 1.0 strict doctype Any suggestions/ideas about the reason/work around? Having the following HTML <!DOCTYPE ht...
Creating a website for a BraodBand Company, and not too sure whether or not to go ahead and fill in the meta keywords? Are they still necessary? ...
Being lazy (and liking DRY code), I'm the kind of guy who's going to write a few little wrappers for recurring HTML markup. Those provided by Rails are good already, but sometimes I have something a little more specific that I know I'm going to repeat over and over. In some situations a partial can be the solution, but sometimes I'm jus...