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Documents/links on preventing HTML form fiddling?

Hi everyone, I'm using ASP.Net but my question is a little more general than that. I'm interested in reading about strategies to prevent users from fooling with their HTML form values and links in an attempt to update records that don't belong to them. For instance, if my application dealt with used cars and had links to add/remove i...

How can I include additional markup within a 'Content' inner property of an ASP.Net WebControl?

I've searched the site and I cannot find a solution for my problem, so apologies if it's already been answered (I'm sure someone must have asked this before). I have written a jQuery Popup window that I've packaged up as a WebControl and IScriptControl. The last step is to be able to write the markup within the tags of my control. I've...

How to get WordPress Twenty Ten theme sub-menus to expand to their contents (CSS)?

Hope this isn't "too" niche, because the CSS involved likely applies in other spots. I'm working with the new Twenty Ten theme in WordPress 3 beta/nightlies, and I'd really like it if the drop-down sub-menus (Pages/custom menus) would expand to the width of whatever is in them, rather than wrap the items at 130px. Here's an example p...

PHP statements, HTML and RSS

Alrighty, I've got another little bit of code that I'm wrestling through. I'm building a conditional sidebar. The goal is to only show blog related stuff when posts in the "blog" category are being viewed. I've got part of it working, but the part where I'm trying to bring in an RSS feed of the category into the sidebar to show as rec...

html input cursor color

Hi everyone How to change the color of content in html input type text while entering some value. And also the cursor color when it has focus. ...

Whats faster for including scripts, using CDN (Google) or store them locally in website root?

Whats faster for including scripts, using CDN (Google) or store them locally in website root? ...

How to change cell's background color in SlickGrid ?

I was trying to change cell's background color with custom formatter like this: var myCellFormatter = function(row, cell, value, columnDef, dataContext) { if ((row + cell) % 5 == 1) { return "<div style='background-color:green'>" + value + "</div>"; } else { return value; } }; but this does not color the wh...

HTML: Menus as UL instead of DIVs?

I recently created a menu for a web page where buttons are DIV elements. I've been Googling around and see that many people create UL lists and each button is a LI element. What benefit is using an UL and LIs instead of just DIVs? Is it somehow better for SEO? Does this have to do with "semantic" markup? Any compelling reason to rewrite ...

Is it possible to use CDATA inside <pre> tag.

I want to display an exception trace in the HTML page. One way to do this is to escape HTML special characters in the exception trace and dump it inside the <pre> tag. Although it works, it's terribly inefficient. I thought that one approach would be to wrap the trace with CDATA. I've tried it, but nothing get's displayed. My questi...

Print table with horizontal scroll

Hi everyone! I have to print a table with horizontal scroll and I need to print everything. The thing is that when te code does "Window.Print()" it cuts my page and doesn't show all the info of the table. I really need your help!! I need to "cut" my table and put it below if it doesn't fit the page. (i can't put a fixed value width to t...

tabindex not working on rails form

Hi, I am specifying a tabindex on a rails form. Below is example code for a select input and text input. <div class="row"> <%= f.label :hrs, "Enter number of hours" %> <%= f.select :hrs, VALID_HOURS::HOURS, {:selected => "8"}, {:tabindex => "3", :style =>'width:50px;', :class => "select"} %> </div> <div class="row"> <%= f.label ...

IE8 alignment in div issue

How to align the the button in center of div in IE8. Works fine in IE7 but not in IE8 <div id="dPopupFooter" style="background-color: #d9d9d9; position: absolute; z-index: 5; bottom: 0px; width: 100%; height: 30px; border-top: solid 1px #acacac; text-align: center; padding-top: 3px;"> <table><tr><td><xrx:CustomButton id="bt...

Reusable view components in HTML

Can you create reusable components in html? Let's say I want to encapsulate some css / html and js into a tidy reusable component. How do web developers do this? I'm coming from the Flex, C# side of the planet. ...

highlighting search results in php error

i'm trying to figure out what is wrong in this code. it either doesn't highlight the search result OR it outputs html tags surrounding the highlighted text. . $search_result = ""; $search_result = trim($search_result); $special_cases = array( '%', '_', '+' ); $search_result = str_replace( $special_cases, '', $_GET["q"] ); //Check if...

Modifying DIV CSS properties from within a deeply nested IFRAME.

I'm working with a business intelligence tool that only gives me access to a deeply nested iframe to add code. Ideally I would like to use jQuery and/or plain old JavaScript to modify the left and position CSS of a div that is 3 iframes above my IFRAME. I have access to add JavaScript/HTML to divArea0_1 within the reportiframe IFRAME....

Ampersand in GET, PHP

I have a simple form that generates a new photo gallery, sending the title and a description to MySQL and redirecting the user to a page where they can upload photos. Everything worked fine until the ampersand entered the equation. The information is sent from a jQuery modal dialog to a PHP page which then submits the entry to the datab...

IE7 rendering bug: Heading before a floated list

Can somebody please explain this IE7 bug to me? It occurs in Standards and Quirks mode rendering, it does not occur in Firefox, Chrome or IE8 (though switching the rendering engine via IE8 developer tools will provoke it). Here's the HTML to reproduce the behavior: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/...

How to set a dynamic width on a floating div?

I have a div container with 3 div elements inside (A, B, and C). I'll know the width of the container and the width of A and B) the problem is that in some cases B won't be there in which case I need C to expand to fill the rest of the container. How would I do this with straight css or am I going to need to use javascript to calculate...

Javascript event chaining / binding

I have a select list which has a function with a jQuery .post bound on the change() event. <select id="location"> <option value="1"></option> <option value="2"></option> </select> $('#location').change(location_change); function location_change(){ var url = ''; $.post(url, callback); } What I would like to happen is other co...

How to build Graceful Degradation AJAX web page?

I want to build web page with "Graceful Degradation". That is, the web page functions even javascript is disabled. Now I have to make design decision on the format of AJAX response. If javascript is disabled, each HTTP request to server will generate HTML as response. The browser refreshes with the returned HTML. That's fine. If javasc...