What are the merits of using tt, i, b, big, and small tags?
The tt, i, b, big, and small tags are not deprecated, but it is possible to achieve richer effect with CSS. What is the merit of using these? ...
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What is practical purpose for bidirectional override "bdo"?
Before coming here, I tried myself by googling. After I read these two links http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_bdo.asp http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_bdo I still don't understand clearly what is the practical purpose? Thanks in advance for those who shed some light on this. ...
How to have 2 adjacents blocks without display:inline-block?
I have been spending hours on that...with no success. Since inline-block is not well-supported by IE6&7, I wanted to know if it is possible to have the same render using other attributes given by the following code : <html><head> <style type="text/css"> .img { float: left; width:17px; height:15px; display:block; background-color: #FD3;...
Scraping single table from HTML using JavaScript
Here's my problem: there's an internal issue tracking system that has a nice summary page (number of open issues broken down by developer, etc.) However, the compact summary table is surrounded by boilerplate cruft (navigational menu, search box, etc.) I'd like to embed the summary table on our team's page, but not the surrounding cruft...
How can I preserve the page scroll position when opening a dialog in response to a link trigger?
I would like to know how I can maintain the scroll position when I open a jQuery dialog. Here is the code I'm using to open my dialog: <a class="link" onclick="openmyDialog();" href="#">Open a dialog</a> And the function : function openmyDialog() { $("#dialog").dialog('destroy'); $("#dialog").html("msg"); $("#dialog").di...
PYTHON: Replace SRC of all IMG elements using Parser
Python Newbie. I am looking for a way to replace the SRC attribute in all IMG tags not using Regular expressions. (would like to use any out-of-the box HTML parser included with default Python install) I need to reduce the source from what ever it may be to: <img src="cid:imagename"> I am trying to replace all src tags to point to th...
How to deploy SWF file?
I have a SWF file I created using Adobe Flex and I cannot seem to properly embed it inside an HTML page. If I take another SWF file and use it instead, it works all the time. My SWF file is pretty big (1 MB) while the other one is tiny (25 KB). However, I can wait 5-10 minutes and the server connection is super fast and it still will ...
How to "lock" columns in an HTML table?
I am pulling back a large amount of tabular data that I wish to display using a table. The only caveat is that I would like to be able to "lock" a few of the columns (fname/lname/email) so that when users scroll horizontally those columns always stay "locked" in place and are visible. I have done something similar to this before but th...
Does Meta-refresh require a full url
Does a meta refresh tag require a full url? I have code that looks like this, which seems to work just fine, but when I load it in lynx text browser, it says this is bad HTML. It seems to suggest that the full URL is required (http://mydomain.com/blah.htm). ...
Web based method to determine if an iPhone is connected via 3G or Wifi
I'm in the process of building a webapp that allows users to view a video podcast. At present, the user can select whether they would like low or high bandwidth videos depending on whether they are connected via 3G or Wifi. Is there any way that a webapp could determine this? I know of one way that could use the IP of the device to dete...
Does anyone know of a cheap CDN that allows rsynch
I'm developing a web application and am looking for a great inexpensive CDN to host my images/css/js. Does anyone know of a great INEXPENSIVE CDN which offers either rsynch or origin/push services? ...
Having problems changing the font in a table row
This doesnt work: $display_table .= "<td width='377' height='15' class='ad_headline_font'>$row[headline]</td>"; It shows the 'headline' From a mysql field but in standard text... why cant i format the text? And the table doesnt have a class appointed to it... and style= doesnt work either... Thanks the css style: .ad_headline_font...
Binding a POCO to an html document and generating the result to a string
I am trying to return an html string from a method in a class library (don't ask why). What i would like to do within the method is get an instance of a POCO from my domain, then open an html document (maybe from a file or maybe it is a string from somewhere else), then pass the POCO to the document (which has bindings to the POCOs prop...
IE7 will not remove active state from navigation until hover
The site is http://greenvillenext.com/site (NOTE: please ignore the crazy load times and everything, I already know). Here's what's going on: clicking an item in the main navigation (the five links across the top) gives that item a class of "active" and when you click a different one it removes the active class from that one and adds it...
How to point to CSS default class using the class attribute
Is there a way to point to the default CSS class of an object? For example, depending if a user is logged in I want to specify a different CSS class to control the style of a header. $css_class = ""; if($logged_in) $css_class = "success" echo "[h1 class=".$css_class."] My Title [/h1]" If the user is logged in, the css class is ...
Overflow hidden and Flash content in IE 8
Hi there, I'm building a Flash banner ad to be displayed on a client's site. When the user hovers over the ad, the Flash movie expands by increasing the height and width of the flash object. The problem is that the client is using overflow:hidden all over their site, and my banner ad is contained within a div that is styled with overfl...
C# html/css selector
Hello, I'm wondering if there's a jQuery-like css selector that can be used in C#. Currently, I'm parsing some html strings using regex and thought it would be much nicer to have something like the css selector in jQuery to match my desired elements. Let me know if I'm not too clear on the subject. Thanks ...
HTML: can I place subscript text right under the superscript?
I have a word, which has both superscript and subscript. Now I render it like this word<sub>1</sub><sup>2</sup> And get the following: word12. How can I put the subscript exactly under the superscript? ...
IE can't see objects in .load DIV Jquery
I have a form loading on a page that loads with an onclick event on the parent page using the following javascript. It gets loaded in a DIV. function loadContent(elementSelector, sourceURL) { $(""+elementSelector+"").load("http://myurl.co.nz/"+sourceURL+""); } Then on another on click event (within the new form) one of the fields in ...
How can I avoid iphone safari first letter in caps
Hello, I am designing a small webpage targeted for the iPhone/iPod touch. I have a form that requires the user to enter a code. When you tap on the corresponding field, the iphone will automatically set the first letter to caps. Is there any way to avoid this? I want the whole field to be entered in small caps. Thanks ...