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How do I make html have priority over firefox's memory for select elements?

Consider the following piece of code : <select> <option value="0">foo</option> <option value="1" selected="selected">bar</option> </select> If I select the first option and reload the page, the first option stays selected and the select does not switch to the second option. How can I force firefox to give priority to the html?...

Open HTML as XHTML

Hi, Having an .html file is it possible to force the browser to treat the contents as XHTML? I mean the file opened from both local or web location. Maybe some on-the-fly convertion or something like that? The background: Firefox and Opera supports natively MathML when the code is embedded in a XHTML file. I need to get a .html file w...

Why NOT use POST method here?

I have a classifieds website. In the main page (index) I have several form fields which the user may or may not fill in, in order to specify a detailed search of classifieds. Ex: Category: Cars Price from: 3000 Price to: 10000 Color: Red Area: California The forms' action is set to a php page: <form action='quer...

Does the character 96 HEX have any special meaning in internet protocols/formats?

sorry for the vague subject, the issue is such: I create an event with invitees in google calendar; on the receiving side an email arrives as multipart, which, in its text/html block, has the following text (quoted-prinatble encoded) Wed Jun 9 1pm =96 2p= m I googled for the =96 and can't find anything. (the charset or this bloc...

A short "RewriteRule" regexp question

I have a very very long querystring which ALWAYS starts like this: mydomain.com/bincgi/sql_query.php?alot alot alot of variables passed along What is the regular expression to make a rewriteRule if I want to pass along all the variables but via this link: mydomain.com/search/all variables here instead..... So the last one is wh...

Unicode symbols coming wrong

Obviously, there must be something stupid i'm doing. The unicode chart for subscripts and superscripts says #00B2 is superscript 2, but i get scrambled output. 0078 is x, but I get N, and 0120 is x. Am i reading wrong manual? EDIT $x = '&#0078;'; print html_entity_decode($x, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8') . "\n"; ...

How to show HTML elements over flash elements ?

Hello, When i create a menu, the dropdowns go behind the flash element. But in some sites, like Digg, it is shown above. z-index is of no use ! How to do this? ...

Retrieving values from a table in HTML using jQuery?

Hi i was just wondering whats the best way to retrieve the current values from this HTMl code using jquery and storing them in to a array? <table id="metric_summary"> <tbody> <tr class="editable_metrics"> <td><label>DataSet:</label></td> <td><input name="DataSet" value="prod"></td> </tr> <tr class="ed...

Equal Column Heights

I want the east and west divs to extend down to match the height of the center div... possible? Thanks so much. .con{ padding-left: 22px; padding-right: 22px; overflow: hidden; } .col{ position: relative; float: left; } .west{ width: 7px; right: 22px; margin-left: -100%; background: url(http://www.example.com/west.png) repeat-y; pad...

"slash before every quote" problem

I have a php page which contains a form. Sometimes this page is submitted to itself (like when pics are uploaded). I wouldn't want users to have to fill in every field again and again, so I use this as a value of a text-input inside the form: value="<?php echo htmlentities(@$_POST['annonsera_headline'],ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8');?>"> This ...

Stuck on conditionally enable or disable input with JQuery

I am attempting to conditionally enable or disable HTML input based on the value of a variable. The "disable" part is working well, but the "enable" isn't, and I can't figure out why. The code: <--if variable is true...--> <div id="disabledSearch" class="searchBox disabled"> <script type="text/javascript"> $('#disabledSear...

How to effectively take an element out of the document flow?

I have a table, with many tds. I want to display a div behind this to give the appearance of it having rounded corners. I have called the Div within a th. Here is a jsFiddle example of the problem. I thought I could do it using position: realtive; and z-index: -100; yet it doesn't seem to be what I want. Thanks to anyone for any help....

Is there a shorthand version of HTML available?

I remember reading an article about a shorthand version, or extension, of HTML a few months ago. Its purpose was to make HTML code significantly more concise, by removing end tags, and it may have allowed loops of some sort as well. I want to use it now, but I can't seem to remember what it was called. Searching online, I found HAML, b...

Adding HTML object to DOM using JavaScript. Showing blank.

Hi, I'm attempting to creat a HTML button using JavaScript (seemingly simple), yet for some reason the object isn't being placed on the page. Do I need to append it to the DOM or somehow create an instance of it? Here is my code: function loadNavigation() { var backButton; backButton = document.createElement('input'); backButton.ID =...

How do I track hotlinking of images and iframe?

I give out an embed html code so others can post parts of my website as an iframe. I want to be able to track who has my embed code posted. Is there a way to do this? ...

Best practices: displaying text that was input via multi-line text box

I have a multi-line text box. When users simply type away, the text box wraps the text, and it's saved as a single line. It's also possible that users may enter line breaks, for example when entering a "bulleted" lists like: Here are some suggestions: - fix this - remove that - and another thing Now, the problem occurs when I try...

regular expression for validation not working

I have a "description textarea" inside a form where user may enter a description for an item. This is validated with javascript before the form beeing submitted. One of the validation-steps is this: else if (!fld.value.match(desExp)){ And desExp: var desExp = /^\s*(\w[^\w]*){3}.*$/gm; Now my problem, this works fine on all cas...

Need help unformatting text

I am currently programming a Visual C# service to receive emails from various sources then I take certain info and organize it in a database using Regex to retrieve the deferent cell values (such as header, body, problem, cost, etc.etc.). My problem is that I am currently using a Hotmail account to email the service which the service th...

Simple question about javascript history.go

I have a classifieds website. In every classified, there is a back link which simply takes the browser back one step. This is because when users search classifieds, and click on one to view it, they can easily go back with a link also (instead of only the browser back button). Here is the problem, if the classified is entered directly i...

jQuery: How to use modifier keys on form submit?

Say I have a form that looks like this: [ Animal name input field ] Add button If I type a name and hit enter, an animal with the given name is added to a table. Works fine. What I would like now is to call the current way of working "quick add" and add a new feature called "slow add", which I am not quite sure how to do. Basically...