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Can the Browser 'Forward' Button be Set from HTML?

Example: At the bottom of the StackOver Questions page are a bunch of page numbers (1,2,3...), enclosed in a set of prev and next buttons. Clicking next repeatedly will bring me to, say page 5, at which point I will have: The page's prev button will be set to 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=4' The Back button on my Browser w...

"javascript: void(0)" links sometimes break event handlers in internet explorer

A while back I ran in to a problem where after clicking an anchor with "javascript: void(0)" events just stopped firing. I read that following a link puts the page in a different state and in that different state events don't fire. Even though the link is not real, it sometimes confuses IE. Anyway, I removed the "javascript: void(0)"'...

How to made my background image strech if I dynamicaly insert DIV in the middle of the page

Hi, I have a background image which I apply to the body. The image is only in the bottom and stretch to the entire width of the page. The image is 1 X 320 px. body { background-image: url("../images/bg-main.gif"); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat:repeat-x; } The rest of my web site is in 1024 X 768 resolut...

Read external HTML page and then find data within

I'm playing around with an idea, and I'm stuck at this one part. I want to read an external HTML page and then extract the data held within two <dd> tags. I've been using file_get_contents with good results, but I'm at a loss as to how to accomplish that last part. The two tags I want to extract the value from are always enclosed within ...

Displaying HTML contents over an applet - wmode transparent?

For Flash content, I can set wmode="transparent" and display HTML menus over my Flash animation. Is something similar possible for Java applets, too? ...

How do I send this email in Python, opening files and stuff?

msg = EmailMessage(subject, body, from_email, [to_email]) msg.content_subtype = "html" msg.send() This is how I send an email in Django. But what if I want to open a text file and take into account all its line breaks and tabs. I want to take the body of the text file (with line breaks \n) and email it as text of the "body". ...

Embed feedback element in rss or atom that does not change the view on click

I am developing a filtering proxy for feeds (rightload.info). A key UI element is a link or equivalent embedded in each entry that allows the user to express an opinion such as "like" or "dislike". A design goal was to support the largest number of feeds and feed readers (and browsers since the most popular feed readers are web based). T...

phone number validation with added input

I recently filled out a form and when I got to the phone number textBox I noticed some really cool things going on. As I entered my number, general phone symbols were getting added automatically. Example: I start entering my area code '555' and my input was changed to 1 (555) to test what just happened I backspaced on the ) and it ...

Html POST and return the same form with the values

Hi, I'm learning web development, and I don't know how do this simple thing. I've a html form with "text", "radio" and "checkbox" controls, that POST the values to the server and it saves them, for example in a file. I save the POST in raw format: key=value&key=value&key=value&key=value and I'd like that when the user open the form ...

Windows desktop gadget RSS Feed colour coding items

I have a desktop gadget that pulls RSS Feeds from a website. The Feed contains information about issues - ie. Priority, Time, Description. The Feed items are displayed on the desktop - however I need to colour code them according to their priority ie 1 = red etc. using the substr function - is there a better way to do this using JavaScr...

Play sound in mobile browser?

I want to make myself a web based stop watch for training that I can use on my Blackberry mobile browser. The stopwatch should count 3 minutes, then ring a bell, wait 1 minute, then ring another bell and then repeat. My problem is I can't seem to get sound to work on my blackberry browser. I tried using <embed src="bell.wav"> which wo...

Problem with JQuery swapImage();

Hello!~ On my articles page (http://www.adrtimes.squarespace.com/articles) I have each entry start with an image that changes on rollover. This is working fine. However, on my homepage (http://www.adrtimes.squarespace.com), I am loading in the 2 most recent articles that are not categorized as video, and the 2 most recent articles that ...

IE7 is making my life miserable! Getting gaps between html table columns (w/ colspan) with css toggle

Copy/paste this html code snippet and try it out in IE7. When you toggle the hidden columns it leaves a gap between the columns. In Firefox it works fine, the columns touch when minimized. Haven't tried IE8 yet, would be curious to hear how it works there. Any ideas? I've tried a bunch of things in the CSS like table-layout:fixed bu...

How to convert an HTML table to an array in python

I have an html document, and I want to pull the tables out of this document and return them as arrays. I'm picturing 2 functions, one that finds all the html tables in a document, and a second one that turns html tables into 2-dimensional arrays. Something like this: htmltables = get_tables(htmldocument) for table in htmltables: ...

Why are these divs repelling each other?

<html> <div style="width:200px;"> <div style="background:red;height:5px"></div> <div style="background:yellow"> Magnets? </div> <div style="background:green;height:5px"></div> </div> </html> Rendering with "Magnets?" wrapped in h3 tags How come the divs cease to be contiguous if "Magnets?" is wrapped in a paragraph or hea...

How To Left Align List Items when Unordered List is Centered on the Page

Hi, I have a div that holds an unordered list with several list items. I am using ie6 and am basically trying to center the unordered list on the screen but at the same time want the actual list item text aligned to the left. At the moment, I have my unordered list within the center tags, which has centered the list but I would actuall...

'Previous' Button in HTML/PHP

Hi there, I thought hours about that problem but I didn't come to any conclusion. My problem here is that I need a 'Previous' Button added to a form. The user should fill out a formular that is splitted up in 13 parts. Every part is an own formular having a 'Next' button for submitting everything to a database and redirecting to the nex...

HTML CSS two columns

If my HTML says something along the following <div class="container"> <div class="element"> </div> <div class="element"> </div> [...] <div class="element"> </div> </div> is it then possible to align those elements as if they were in a two-column table? I.e. with 7 elements there would be 4 rows, with the last row only having on...

Best way to get the iframe object.

Hi, We are using too many iframes in out web application. In these iframes we load the pages which may also contains iframes and so on up to N level. Right now i'm using recursive function to find out the required iframe object in JavaScript. It works fine, The issue is when we create large dynamic pages which may contains up to 1000 i...

Border on a row within a table border-collapse

Very strange things I see in FireFox. http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?c82dd67985.png http://screencast.com/t/M2M1NDYx http://screencast.com/t/YTk4OWYxYj http://screencast.com/t/NTk3YTEwZTQt I am trying simply to have border on a row within a table border-collapsed. This my styles: .result .class.list { border-collapse:col...