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Combo control like Windows Vista

I want to make a combo control that looks very classic and very sexy, as Vista's does. How can I do this? ...

input text field resets even if cancelling submit

Hi! i have a form which onsubmit i return false to cancel the submit action (that works fine). but the problem is that even that the submit action was canceled the value on the text input gets erased from the input somehow... search_form.onsubmit = submit_listener; submit_listener = function(e){ console.log(e); return false; ...

How to Load the page First and read database

Hi, HTML form has some text boxes and a drop down box. Drop down has huge values, and takes lot of time to fetch from database. So I want to load the page first and while the user fills the form (text boxes) I want to load the drop down box (without his knowledge :-) ). But without any event trigger, how do I make call to database ag...

DropDown must retain the text after POST

I want the DropDown text to be retained when the Form returns from POST. How to maintain the state? ...

linux shell output to html

is there any way to convert bash output to html ? for example if I had some colorized output in bash ( something like htop ), how can I convert it to html tags ... ( something like this: <p style="color: red">some text</p>) ...

SEO a href optimization

I have a number of links <a href="/somepage.html" class="link"></a> and class has background image wich changes on :hover attribute. Now the problem is how can I put any text inside <a></a> tags for google to catch but also that it doesn't appear cause if it will show it will mess up my background image. EDIT: How about this: <...

Get <select> text using 'this' keyword

I am using following code: <select class="element select medium" id="inDistrict" name="inDistrict" onchange="setCookie('lastvalue',this.value,1);"> It is not taking: this.value. What else to use to get the DropDown selected text? ...

How can I attach "meta data" to a DOM node?

Sometimes I want to attach some kind of meta data to a HTML node and I wondered, what's the best way to do this. I can imagine the following: Non-standard attributes: <div myattr1="myvalue1" myattr2="myvalue2" > (Breaks validation) Re-use an existing attribute <div class="myattr1-myvalue2-myattr2-myvalue2"> (Requires parsing and some...

Force HTML page to reload if updated recently

Hi, Is there a way that I can force a page to reload, but only if it has been updated recently? I am working on a photography website so there are a lot of images, therefore it is best if it is cached. However, if the content has been updated (e.g. more photographs added) then I want the browser to load a fresh copy, if not then use t...

HTML Javascript Rich Text Box (IDE)

I am hoping to build an IDE in javascript that behaves much like gmail except the style will change automatically based on what they type as they type. The logic for this isnt where im struggling. Its how gmail achieves the ability to edit in a rich edit format in html. As far as I know the textarea control does not work this way, so how...

jquery inserting html doesn't work

I have got a table where i want to insert html in a td on the next row. I pasted one row below. <tr class="content"> <td align="center"> <a class="version" href="theurl">click here to update the td in the row below</a> </td> <td align="left">col 2</td> <td align="left">col 3</td> <td align="left">col 4</td> ...

How to link to an Embed object in html ?

I have an Embed object that shows a video stream, how to setup a html link to it, so when user clicks on the link, it will open another window to show the video ? <embed id="player" src="http://media2.wtnh.com/_local/livestreams/FMLPlayer.swf" align="center" width="588" height="351" wmode="opaque" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="live=...

how to append a string in the html tag in img src ???

HI all,, I want to edit a html at run time ---- what i want to do is i have a html file on the server and i pass its tags in the other language as like this NSString* contentHTML = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html><head></head><body><b><font face='arial' size='%d' color='%@'>%@</font></b></body></html>",[appDelegate.sTextFont intege...

IE6 background misaligned

I have IE6. [EDIT: you can see the template live here: http://themeforest.net/item/aqua-terra-lava-html-blog-portfolio-/full_screen_preview/53209 ] I have a template, with 3 <a></a> that change the position of their background to create a button effect. This is how it looks in any browser This is it with IE6: This the CSS code: ...

designing keyword/tag input

I am currently working on a form and am stuck on a keyword/tag input field (think youtube.. or even stackoverflow). Anyway, I thought it was pretty logical to use ',' to separate the tags... which would allow users to use combinations of words as tags using ' '. However my boss wants it separated with just ' '. Which worries me as I thin...

Firefox does not show tooltips on disabled input fields

Firefox doesn't display tooltips on disabled fields. The following displays tooltip in IE/Chrome/Safari except Firefox: <input type="text" disabled="disabled" title="tooltip text."/> Why doesn't Firefox display tooltip on disabled fields? Is there a work around this? ...

How to hide text field in Html File Upload

I am wondering how to hide the text field portion of a standard html file upload tag for example <input type="file" name="somename" size="chars"> This generates obviously a text field and next to that field is a browse button... I want to hide the text field part but keep the button. ...

Style row or column rather than cells when border-collapse: separate

I have a table which for other reasons I prefer to keep table-collapse: separate. However, I would like to be able to highlight an individual row or column. Unfortunately, it seems that any style applied to the <tr> or <col> tags only applies to the cells, not the space between them. For instance: <style> td { width: 10px; height: ...

Multiple <html><body> </html></body> in same file

I have a multiple html files in one file. Like <html> <body> </body> </html> <html> <body> </body> </html> <html> <body> </body> </html> and the result is that I get a messed up html file. How to correct this without removing tags from the rest I am using python to generate the html ...

How to create HTML pages using AMFPHP (on server)

I have AMFPHP installed on my server. I have a flash app that can call it's methods. I want to create some HTML (on server created) pages which will contain HTML code and results of AMFPHP functions. How to create such thing? ...