positioning

[jQuery Validator] help with custom positioning error messages

Hello, I'm playing with the great Bassistance jQuery Validator and am stuck at a point The idea is simple: I have lot of this markup (I semplify, but the idea is that after each there could be something else, i.e. a word, an icon, etc... that is "inline" with the corresponding): <ol> <li><input type="text" id="width" size="3"></input> ...

Have 2nd Html table cell span rest of screen

I have a table with two columns and one row, and 100% width across the screen. I want the first column to take up as much space as the content in it will fill. This content shouldn't take up the entire screen, so I'm not worried about wrapping. I then want the second cell to take up the remainder of the horizontal space. How would I ...

CSS dropdown-menu positioning inside a wrapper with hidden overflow

I know, a vaque title but it's hard to describe what I want in one sentence. My problem is as follows, I have a template with several dropdown menus activated by jQuery. The dropdown lists appear as second level navigational items within a the first-level list, as follows: <ul class="tools"> <li class="dropdown"> <a href="#">Tool...

C#: How can I get the value of various FormStartPosition members?

Forms have a property called StartPosition which I can set to one of the members of the FormStartPosition enum. For example is one of them called WindowsDefaultLocation and another is called CenterParent. Now lets say I wanted to create a button that moved a form to its windows default position, to the center of the screen or center of ...

Jquery to activate multiple slideshows and popups

Hey Guys, I am having a bit of difficulty with this current code I have set up. I am setting up a page with various projects. When one is clicked, the idea is that there will be a popup with a full size image. Some projects have multiple images, so I also added a slide show property. I am sizing the popup by having jquery determine the ...

How to get and set window position of another application in c#

How can I get and set the position of another application using c#? For example, I would like to get the top left hand coordinates of Notepad (lets say it's floating somewhere at 100,400) and the position this window at 0,0. What's the easiest way to achieve this? ...

Controls relative-positioned in Visual Studio 2008 gets misplaced in browsers

Hi all! I'm developing an aspx page using Visual Studio 2008 where I have a png image of a map of my country and many other png images, one for each state of my country. I'm trying to place these other images (little dots) over the image of the map using relative positioning. But I place the controls in design time at the position I wan...

setting up positioning server on symbian

Hello, Does anyone know how to set up the positioning server programmatically on Symbian S60 phones using Symbian C++. I'm trying to set up the Access point of the positioning server to get the GPS coordinates. Thanks in advance. Ravi ...

div positioning based on view port

I would like to position a div relative the the view port of a browser window. Currently I have some popups with some jquery that are dynamically getting positioned based on the window size, however since they are absolute positioned, they are based off the top of the page, so when you scroll down, and click on a project lower on the pag...

need help with this html css fragment

Hi, I need the #infoBar div and the #actualCover div to sit to the right of (next to) the #covers div but for some reason, the covers div is acting like its not even there and floats on top of the other divs please help <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <title>Untitled Page</title> <style type="text/css"> ...

Browser and z-index issues

Hey there. I have an image that I am absolutely positioning. In Firefox it is where it is supposed to be, in Safari it is all whack. What is going on and what is a surefire way to know where it sits. ...

css indentation

I like to do, as in indesign or quark... paragraph indent... for picure how is the proper way to do that in html and css I dont want the text to go round the image... i like to have the whole left part protected putting margin to the picture will do the trick... but for 10-20-30 pixel (fixed amount (bad)) i have try negative position...

Fluid content div with optional sidebar.

Hello, I have a question that I haven't found addressed in the various CSS layout models I've looked at, so I thought I'd post it here. I'm working on a site that uses a basic fluid/fixed two-column layout. The content of the site is in the left div, and the sidebar in the right. The sidebar has a fixed width of 200 pixels or so, and th...

How can I get an image to stick to the bottom of a div as the height of the div changes?

I have a div, with an image that needs to be stuck to the bottom-right corner. This is easily done with: #div1 { position: relative; } #div1 img { position: absolute; bottom: 0; right: 0; } However, the height of the div changes dynamically as pieces of a series of nested lists show and hide themselves on hover events...

how to maintain spacing between two fluid divs?

Hi, I have a parent div with two child divs (one floated left and one right) inside the parent. The web page must work on both 1024px definitions and 1620px so they need to be fluid if expanded in width. All margins look fine with the exception of the vertical space between the left and right divs. I am using jquery to maintain equal...

iframe doesn't move in IE6!

I am working on a message board link text to site and I have it displaying correctly in FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera and IE8. My problem is that in IE6 the iframe containing the Google ads is fixed on the screen, it does not move when the message board area is scrolled and for the life of me I can not figure out how to fix it. Removing the ...

getting jQuery UI's datepicker to always open in a certain direction?

I'm using jQuery UI's datepicker control in a position: fixed toolbar at the bottom of my page. Occasionally, on random computers, the datepicker appears below the toolbar, which means it's off the page and impossible to view or interact with. Is there a way to force the positioning of the datepicker control to always be above and to th...

Place a window behind any other existing third party window

In order to take a screenshot of a specific window, I need to place a white colored TForm behind that window. What Windows API could I use to change the z-order of my window and place it correctly ? ...

Getting the global coordinate of a Node in JavaFX

How can I get the actual position of a node in the scene. The absolute position, regardless of any containers/transforms. For example, I want to translate a certain node a so that it would temporarily overlap another node b. So I wish to set his translateX property to b.globalX-a.globalX. The documentation says: Defines the X coord...

Changing the start up location of a WPF window

I'd like to have a WPF window open in the top right part of the screen. Right now I can achieve that by opening the window and then moving it (via movewindow in user32.dll). However, this approach means the window opens in it's default location, fully loads, and then moves to the top right. How could I do I change it so that I could s...