Hello all, I am attempting to load an activex object on the same page where my flex application resides. Is this possible? Can I have 2 object tags on one page? As of right now the flex application loads fine but when I attempt to access the activeX control it says its null. But if I have the same activex control on its own webpage i...
I have a really long 3 column table. I would like to <table> <tr><td>Column1</td><td>Column2</td></tr> <tr><td>Column1</td><td>Column2</td></tr> <tr><td>Start</td><td>Hiding</td></tr> <tr><td>Column1</td><td>Column2</td></tr> <tr><td>Column1</td><td>Column2</td></tr> <tr><td>Column1</td><td>Column2</td></tr> ...
I had a problem a week or so ago. Since I think the solution was cool I am sharing it here while I am waiting for an answer to the question I posted earlier. I need to know the relative position for the column headings in a table so I know how to match the column heading up with the data in the rows below. I found some of my tables ha...
I'm relatively new to web application programming so I hope this question isn't too basic for everyone. I created a HTML page with a FORM containing a dojox datagrid (v1.2) filled with rows of descriptions for different grocery items. After the user selects the item he's interested in, he will click on the "Submit" button. At this...
I'm going to be coaching a gentleman, older, and fairly Internet inexperienced, with maintaining a simple web site. Nothing dynamic, just static pages, text, links, and images. I haven't done any web page work for years. What would you guys recommend he [we] use for software? Are there online tools we can share that would give him the ab...
I have the following html <div id="menu"> <ul class="horizMenu"> <li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">About</a></li> <li><a href="#">Archive</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="#">Item four</a></li> <li><a href="#">Item five</a></li> </ul> </div> and in th...
Hi, I have simple page that has some iFrame sections (to display RSS links), how can I apply the same CSS format for the main page to the page displayed in the iFrame? Thanks, ...
Heres a screenshot to make it clear. I'm trying to figure out a robust way of making the bullet images vertically aligned to my li content. As you can see my content is currently too high. Many thanks 'over-flowers'... http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/240752/list-example.gif ...
Is there a nicer way of styling a <hr /> tag using CSS, that is cross-browser consistent and doesn't involve wrapping a div around it? I'm struggling to find one. The best way I have found, is as follows: .hr { height:20px; background: #fff url(nice-image.gif) no-repeat scroll center; } hr { display:none; } <div cla...
I'm creating a few web forms that have areas to them. Are fieldsets viable options for sectioning forms anymore? Should I just use a div with styles to be similar? ...
I have a database full of small HTML documents and I need to programatically insert several into, say, a PDF document with iText or a Word document with Aspose.Words. I need to preserve any formatting within the HTML documents (within reason, honouring <b> tags is a must, CSS like <span style="blah"> is a nice-to-have). Both iText and ...
I have data from MySQL showing all organisations a customer got, with all details of employess in each organisation. I want to list each organisation name only once i.e. in a single cell ( row span) and all employees in that organisation against this name like: Org1 Emp1 Name, Emp1 Phone, Emp1 Address Emp2 Name, Emp2 Phone,...
Should links on a web page ALWAYS be underlined? I do not believe this should be a hard and fast RULE! I wrote a comment on my blog awhile back about this after another developer complained that I was not following web standards. It is coming up again, and I want to know what you think. Her argument was that for consistance and usabilit...
Hi, If I view the HTML generated by one of my Jasper reports in IE7 I see the following: <BR /><BR /> <A name="JR_PAGE_ANCHOR_0_1"> <TABLE style="WIDTH: 1000px" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" bgColor="#ffffff" border="0"> <-- table body omitted --> </TABLE> The two BR tags are added via the JRHtmlExporterParameter.HTML_HEADER param...
Is there an HTML color wheel that I can throw in my site that will return a value of the color when a user clicks on it? would make one myself but don't want to "re-invent the wheel" HILARIOUS(punny?) ...
Is it possible to to change a <span> tag (or <div>) to preformat its contents like a <pre> tag would using only CSS? ...
I remember working on a project with a group of developers and they always wanted static html text to be inside of an out tag (<c:out value="words" />). I don't remember why this was the case. Is this really a best practice when building jsp pages? What are the advantages/disadvantages of such an approach? ...
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out a decent solution (especially from the SEO side) for embedding fonts in web pages. So far I have see the W3C solution, which doesn't even work on Firefox, and this pretty cool solution. The second solution is for titles only. Is there a solution available for full text? I'm tired of the standard fonts for...
Given a template where the HTML cannot be modified because of other requirements, how is it possible to display a div above another div when they are not in that order in the HTML and both divs contain data that could produce a varying height and width. HTML: <div id="wrapper"> <div id="firstDiv"> Content to be b...
I'm calling a web service that returns an array of objects in JSON. I want to take those objects and populate a div with html. Let's say each object contains a url and a name. If i wanted to generate the following html for each object: <div><img src="the url" />the name</div> Is there a best practice for this? I can see three w...