I'm working on a site with forms that require a certain language to be used. (Something like a dictionary). I want to know if there is a way in JavaScript/HTML to check the language. For example, if I need the input in Japanese and the user gives me an English word, it is detected as an error. ...
Hi, I have a list of strings that I would like to display in a HTML select object. The strings look something like : id - name - description I would like the fields to align however. In PHP I'm using sprintf ("%4s%10s%20s", $id, $name, $description); which works fine. The problem is the multiple spaces is compacted to 1 space in t...
Hello, I am working on a horizontal CSS dropdown menu. It is still working nearly fine for IE 7, IE 8 , Firefox and Chrome. But I want to make the top <ul> to be on top level (e.g. z-index: 100). I want this because the top level <ul> has a graphical background and the dropdown is just styled with css and in the current way it is destroy...
I want to display a basic html table with controls to toggle showing/hiding of additional columns: <table id="mytable"> <tr> <th>Column 1</th> <th class="col1">1a</th> <th class="col1">1b</th> <th>Column 2</th> <th class="col2">2a</th> <th class="col2">2b</th> </tr> <tr> ...
Why in the following code .height() returns 95 rather than 100, while .width() returns 200 as expected ? I work with Firefox 3.6.3. HTML: <table><tr> <td id="my"></td> </tr></table> <div id="log"></div> CSS: #my { border: 5px solid red; } JS: $("#my").width(200).height(100); $("#log").append("Width = " + $("#my").width() + ...
Hello, Normally HTML check boxes are grouped based on name. Is it possible to group check box other than name? Thank You! ...
Following declaration appears in html 4.01 dtds <!ELEMENT STYLE - - %StyleSheet -- style info --> (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/dtd.html it's in both strict.dtd and loose.dtd) Apparently, the ; is missing after %StyleSheet. The reference should have been %StyleSheet; But this is the official dtd of the holy html -...
Some websites have forms with input type="text". And inside these textboxes there is a blurred text, which says for example: "Enter your name here". And then onClick or OnFocus or whatever, the text dissappears and you can type into the textbox. Like the title of posting a question here at stackoverflow, same thing. How is this done ea...
I'm trying to create a page with a number of static html tables on them. What do I need to do to get them to display each column the same size as each other column in the table? The HTML is as follows: <span class="Emphasis">Interest rates</span><br /> <table cellpadding="0px" cellspacing="0px" class="PerformanceTable"> <tr><th c...
hi, I've to make the background of my fading-in menu items semi-transparent. It has to be grey but still I need to see what's below it. What's an easy cross-browser solution for semi-transparency ? (Possibly without using images) thanks ...
Hi, I am new to XML and have been trying some simple examples and they work fine. I want to do something like the following, but I am not able to figure out how to go about doing this. I have a HTML web page, where the user types in some data in an input field. I want to take that data, parse it to create an XML string, and the app...
Is there an event for situations where something is selected on an HTML page like arbitrary text within a span element? Does such a thing exist or does one need to poll at regular interval & analyze the window.getSelection() ? I would like to trap this event type from within a browser extension (Chrome). ...
I have a select menu with two options that are settings for my website. Instead of having a save button, I want it to save to the db when the new value is selected. Right now I have setup a .click function in my jquery file that achieves this purpose for the most part. The only problem is that if you click the drop down arrow (like click...
I have the following html structure <div style="overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:hidden;position:relative"> <div style="position:absolute; top:0;bottom:0;padding-top:30px"> </div> </div> When the inner div expands the outer bar gets its scroll bars. But the scroll bars appear on top of the inner div (blocking its contents). Work...
when validating a site using w3c validator it tells me the embed tag is not valid markup. So i take it out and it works on safari/chrome but not firefox(3.5.x) but validates fine. Is there something in the object tag i must add in order for firefox to display flash. ...
I have the following list: <ul> <li class="topCurrent">One <ul> <li>One-1 <ul> <li>One-1.1 <ul> <li class="current">One-1.1.1 <ul> <li>One-1.1.1.1</li> <li>...
What's wrong with this code? var divarray = document.getElementById("yui-main").getElementsByTagName("div"); var articleHTML = array(); var absHTML; var keyHTML; var bodyHTML = array(); var i = 0; for ( var j in divarray) { if(divarray[i].className == "articleBody"){ alert("found"); articleHTML = divarray[i]; break; } bodyHT...
What is wrong with this code? var divarray = []; var articleHTML = []; var absHTML; var keyHTML; var bodyHTML = []; var i = 0; divarray = document.getElementById("yui-main").getElementsByTagName("div"); for ( var j in divarray) { if(divarray[i].className == "articleBody"){ articleHTML = divarray[i]; for( var k in art...
Here is my code: var divarray = document.getElementById("yui-main").getElementsByTagName("div"); var articleHTML; var absHTML; var keyHTML; var bodyHTML = []; for( var i in divarray) { if(divarray[i].className == "articleBody"){ articleHTML = divarray[i]; for( var j in articleHTML ){ bodyHTML[i] = ''; ...
I'm building an extranet for a company paranoid about security. They want to make sure that (among other things) their users are browsing the site with the Private Browsing mode switched on in their web browser so that no cookies or history is kept. I found only this http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2009/03/detecting-private-browsin...