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How to make text run top-to-bottom in CSS?

Does anyone know how to make text align top-to-bottom in a div. SO won't even let me demonstrate it . . . I just want the letters to stack on top of each other in a vertical line down the page like the stories of a building. Was hoping I didn't need to do it with an image. ...

SQL string replacement workaround

I'm working in a modified version of Sybase 10 that doesn't have the stuff, replace or str_replace functions. I need to replace part of string in a number of records. Are there any creative ways to program around this, so I don't have to do them all manually? Example: UPDATE status SET description = replace(description,'abc','def') W...

Problem with non-standard HTML attributes?

Possible Duplicates: Non-Standard Attributes on HTML Tags. Good Thing? Bad Thing? Your Thoughts? Is there a generic attribute for all HTML elements aside from ID and class? I have a series of divs that I would like to attatch extra info to. My idea was to use non-standard attributes to hold these values. Is this a bad idea, ...

Querying URLs on ports other than 80 with urlfetch() on app engine

Is querying for URLs present on ports other than 80 allowed with urlfetch() I would like to get data from a server on a non-standard port - http://example.com:8000/WebService?input=a Ideal example would be web services hosted on non-standard ports. Can i do this somehow with appengine? ...