I've been lucky to develop websites for the past 3 years for companies that don't need to support IE 6 in any way. I've just accepted a development job with a company that works exclusively with IE 6 customers in the financial field. These people may be hemmed in by corporate IT departments or haven't upgraded, or whatever the reason i...
If you have a link or script tag, say to a css or js document, and you have something like ?1 in the url, what is that? Example: <script src="home.js?1" type="text/javascript"></script> Just a basic question... ...
I have a snippet of HTML that contains paragraphs. (I mean p tags.) I want to split the string into the different paragraphs. For instance: ''' <p class="my_class">Hello!</p> <p>What's up?</p> <p style="whatever: whatever;">Goodbye!</p> ''' Should become: ['<p class="my_class">Hello!</p>', '<p>What's up?</p>' '<p style="whatever: w...
I'm looking for a library or jquery plugin (etc) for a dynamic, multi-value form selector. Think of gmail's "TO" field when composing email. Looking for: Populate field(s) with 0 to n employee ids. Currently have 5000 employees. First or last name searching. I've rolled my own in the past. However I'm trying to focus my de...
Hi, How do I increase the width of a column in an HTML table? Below is my code. I am trying to get the second <td> tag in each row to expand so that there is more space between the input text box (1st <td> tag) and the name of the cookie and it's price (3rd <td> tag). Any ideas? Thanks! <!--Order Info. table -nested table 2 --> <!--Th...
I'm transforming XML to HTML. In part of the XML, I need to count elements that seem "identical" when specific descendants are compared, while other descendants and any attributes must be ignored. Here's a simplified example of my XML. The real thing is much more complicated; I've just removed elements that aren't relevant to the counti...
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to get my text to not wrap when the browser window is maximized to a 24 inch monitor and minimized to a more regular size. I think if I set a fixed number of space for a cell within an HTML table that this will help but I don't know how...any ideas? My monitor is 24 inches and so minimizing it to a norma...
I want a way to convert some basic html tags into RTF (like I, B, BR) Is there any simpler way to do that without paying for anything? Developing something from scratch is an option too. ...
Hi, I added a new transient status bar message to my HTML document (specifically the 5 links listed in the table, see code below) and it worked fine in IE but when I viewed the document in Firefox or Chrome the message did not appear. All that I saw was the URL link. Can someone show me how I can get the transient status bar message to s...
A form in my app has the following: <form action="/faculty/update/agxzdGFuZHJld3NqaHNyDQsSB0ZhY3VsdHkYBww" method="PUT" accept-charset="utf-8"> However, upon submission the request is treated as a GET and is handled by def get() and not def put(). Any help would be appreciated! Edit: Thanks for the responses. If I can't use method="...
Hello, Web app I'm working on generates HTML using Velocity templates. Problem is that using whitespace in velocity templates and other formatting results in butt-ugly HTML (excessive whitespace, misalignment, etc.) Looking for a nice (single jar packaging would be nice) Java-based HTML prettifier to run over the generated HTML right b...
hi all, i'm trying things out with a html document's dom (under visualbasic6) and i was wondering: how can i get the full html sourcecode including all headers? is there something like document.all.value? thanks ...
I would like to know the best practices concerning the usage of a drop-down menu in my website along with search engine optimization. Currently, the content of the menu uses almost 50% of the HTML code, but doesn't describe at all the real content of the page. Should I move my menu at the end of the HTML code and replace it visually at ...
is it necessary to have <th> in any table? even if table has no heading? table has 3 other tag <thead> <tbody> <tfoot> is it necessary to use all even if i have nothing for table footer. Firefox by default add all these in code. and is it necessary , <th> always should be in a <thead> and if i have a heading in content received from c...
Is there a simple way to save an HTML page that has an external stylesheet (1 or more) referenced but force all of the rules to be inserted into the page itself, inline? So basically I want to move all external rules onto the elements that they affect themselves. For what it's worth, I'm using nearly every major browser (incase the solu...
I recently implemented a fix to create separate landing pages depending on whether or not the user has javascript enabled. Basically the way it works is this. The default page is an HTML page w/ no javascript. Basic version of the site. Upon landing on it, there is a script that says if javascript is enabled then go to another page. Th...
I've very interested in getting started with haml but have no idea what a ruby gem is. I am on a Windows machine and only plan to use haml for generating html. I've got no ruby experience whatsoever but want to play around with haml. any ideas? ...
All, In the following code <INPUT TYPE="radio" name="1" id="1" VALUE="1" <?php echo $checked1 ?>><font size="2">1</font> <INPUT TYPE="radio" name="2" id="2" VALUE="2" <?php echo $checked2 ?>><font size="2">2</font> <TEXTAREA name="names" id="names" rows="15" cols="65"><?php echo $names ?></TEXTAREA> If the radio button 1 selected for...
I’ve seen some people wrap their navigation (<ul> tag) inside a <div>, and the <div> just has margin/padding CSS properties applied to it. We can just style the navigation without a <div> and put the margin and padding on the <ul> tag. So it is necessary to put the <ul> tag inside the <div>, or is it just personal preference/favor? And...
I am creating a dynamic table in which each row has a group of radio buttons placed in different columns. In that i want to change the column background color in different rows when radio button is clicked. (i.e Each row is a radio button group and if someone selects a cell then the background color needs to be set for the cell and unse...