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HTML: How to create a DIV with only vertical scroll-bar to show long paragraphs on a webpage?

I want to show terms and condition note on my website. I dont want to use text field and also dont want to use my whole page. I just want to display my text in selected area and want to use only vertical scroll-bar to go down and read all text. Currently I am using this code: <div style="width:10;height:10;overflow:scroll" > text text...

Get the value of a textnode which is being shown on the screen via javascript.Not very easy.

I mean, assume a web page is very long and contain lots of words, now i just want to get the value of a textnode which is being shown on the screen.How could i do it? Thanks! :) what's more: I mean, i know how to get the value of a textnode,but if a web page is very lage and contains thousands of words, what i want to do is that,only ge...

When Does the File Download Dialog Open? - HTML, Javascript

Hello, I have a html page, and when I click a file link on the page, the file download dialog pops up, and this file dialog locks the page. I mean without selecting one of the choices(Open, Save, Cancel) I can't do anything on the page (which is normal). What I need is if javascript can check whether the page is locked or not. (or whethe...

Changing the <input> type in IE with JavaScript

The line <input type="text" name="passwordLogin" value="Password" onfocus="if(this.value=='Password'){this.value=''; this.type='password'};" onblur="if(this.value==''){this.value='Password'; this.type='text'};" size="25" /> works in all web browsers except IE... How can I fix it for IE? Ok made some changes to still have an error I ...

cross domain iFrames communication problem

I have a page A containing 2 children iFrames called B and C. A and B are on different domains. On pressing a button in B I would like to change C's URL. Based on the law III of Michael Mahemoff it should work, but in fact it doesn't (js security error). Here is the JS code in B: window.parent.frames['C'].location.href = "http://ran...

Type attribute for text_field

I have this code: <%= f.text_field :email, :type => "email", :placeholder => "[email protected]" %> So people can enter their email on an iPhone with the email keyboard instead of the ASCII keyboard. However, the output is: <input id="user_email" name="user[email]" placeholder="[email protected]" size="30" type="text" /> which should...

How to make Nokogiri transparently return un/encoded Html entities untouched?

How can I use Nokogiri with having html entities (like German umlauts) untouched? I.e.: # this is fine node = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment('<p>&ouml;</p>') node.to_s # => '<p>&ouml;</p>' # this is not node = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment('<p>ö</p>') node.to_s # => '<p>&ouml;</p>' # this is what I need node = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment('<p>ö</p>') ...

Scroll to a text position in Javascript

I have a real-time HTML editor, with a textarea on the left for code entry, and a 'preview' DIV on the right to contain the preview of the code entered. At the moment, when editing the code in the left pane, the preview just sits where it is, so often the part of the code you're editing is not in the visible area of the preview (especial...

How to tell if a mouse is hovering over an element

Is there a function I can call to know if a certain element is currently being hovered over, like this? /* Returns true or false */ hoveringOver("a#mylink"); ...

Apply a specific class to the first item in a series with PHP

I have a php script that echoes a series of uploaded images and I need to apply a class to the first image echoed in the series. Is this possible? For example, if I want to display 10 images and apply a class to only the first image, how would I go about it? Here is the code, I am working with: <div id="gallery"> <?php query_posts('...

Is there a way to get YQL to return HTML?

I am trying to use YQL to extract a portion of HTML from a series of web pages. The pages themselves have slightly different structure (so a Yahoo Pipes "Fetch Page" with its "Cut content" feature does not work well) but the fragment I am interested in always has the same class attribute. If I have an HTML page like this: <html> <bo...

How can I make the width of a page dynamic up to a certain limit?

For example, dynamic and fluid between 600px - 1000px, but fixed at 1000px after 1000px and fixed at 600px below 600px. Check out digg.com for an example. I'd like a way that is cross-browser compatible. Thank you! ...

Radio buttons change variable in JavaScript

I have two fields which calculate a total, but I have a radio button pair that determines a variable within the equation. Here's the radio button code: <input type="radio" name="estimate_pool_shape" value="1" /> Angle <input type="radio" name="estimate_pool_shape" value=".86392" /> Freeform Immediately after that, this JavaScript is t...

Why is giving a fixed width to a label an accepted behavior?

There are a lot of questions about formatting forms so that labels align, and almost all the answers which suggest a pure CSS solution (as opposed to using a table) provide a fixed width to the label element. But isn't this mixing content and presentation? In order to choose the right width you basically have to see how big your longest...

How to get a div via PHP?

Hello. I get a page using file_get_contents from a remote server, but I want to filter that page and get a DIV from it that has class "text" using PHP. I started with DOMDocument but I'm lost now. Any help? $file = file_get_contents("xx"); $elements = new DOMDocument(); $elements->loadHTML($file); foreach ($elements as $element) { ...

Disabling script max-execution-time in flex?

How do I completely disable the max-execution-time for scripts in flex? The configurable max is 60 seconds, but I'm calling off to other interactive processes which will probably run much longer than that. Is there an easy way to disable the maximum script execution time across my entire application? ...

Create your own HTML Textfield with Javascript

I came across the following http://ckeditor.com/demo , and was wondering if anyone had a basic tutorial how to implement this (or perhaps what key search terms I should use)? Is this just a heavily modified TextField, or have they somehow managed to create a completely new TextField from scratch? I tried googling this many times, and I...

Web technologies exam query

I have a practical exam in web technologies so html, css, javascript and (possibly) php. I'm still learning and just wondered if you guys had any advice. HTML im fine with, css sometimes takes me time to get right and javascript and php get a bit messy! It's open book, so what would you suggest taking with me? ...

How to make an object go to a higher layer

I want this to be on top... how can I do this and not have it go underneath... http://opentech.durhamcollege.ca/~intn2201/brittains/chatter/signup_step2.php I think there is a way in CSS to make stuff go on higher layers I think I read something about it a few years ago but I forget what its called. ...

Cannot add margin to Legend element in Safari & Chrome

I have some pretty straightforward markup: <form action=""> <fieldset class="compact"> <legend>Member Tools</legend> <label for="username">Username</label> <input name="username" id="username" type="text"/> <label for="password">Password</label> <input name="password" id="pas...