My question is straight: why there is "inherit" value for (almost) all the properties in HTML-CSS .. even-though all browsers support inheritance for all (as per my observation, yes, all) the properties .. When I asked google about it .. I could come up with a statement saying "Even though certain characteristics are inherited aut...
I always see code like this: #container { background:#000000 none repeat scroll 0 0; display:block; overflow:hidden; position:relative; width:100%; } I thought position relative is used to accommodate the div relatively to its parent element using the CSS proprieties left right top and bottom (px). What's t...
why w3c has the conventions of different Doc-types .. ? Instead they could have recommended only one Doc-type (say loose type.. as it would prone to less number of SILLY errors) and would have standardized it to all browsers (including the ones in mob and PDAs) ..I haven't got any satisfying answer in any tutorial yet .. I have been read...
I am working on a "mega" drop down menu. However I need a small twist to it which is proving to be a task. To be considered correct it should look like the following and Each tab dropdown needs to be displayed at the same location because they will each contain similar info. The left side of the dropdown should start at the left side of...
Hello, I am interested in learning how to create attractive and user-friendly ASP.NET websites. I have done some ASP.NET programming, but would like to be able to design attractive and user-friendly web interfaces? Could anyone suggest some books on the design and interaction aspects of web sites that would help? What topics should I co...
Am a newbie in CSS and am writting this code and the main content and the sidebar are falling out of place. Anyone know why? Here is the HTML and CSS used <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title> WEB HELPDESK</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"...
Hi Guys, I have the following mark up: <div id="playArea" style="position: relative;"> <div style="position: absolute; left: 295px; top: -1px; width: 313px; height: 269px;">Hello</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 63px; top: 35px; width: 80px; height: 42px;">World</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: 534px; ...
how does this helps a multi language site ? ...
I'm an in house UI/UX/Web Designer at my company. Before hiring me our company had an enterprise level web consulting firm on retainer that we are "letting go of" soon. We are still using them primarily for feedback at the time until our contract is up. In the past, and particularly with some current feedback, this firm has referred a g...
I am trying to teach someone with no HTML experience how to position an image in a web page using an online HTML Editor (like FCKEditor or Telerik RadEditor) without getting into html and css. They have no interest in learning these. What are some good ways to position an image wherever they want it to be without touching html and css...
We have church website built using moonfruit.com and they have siteMaker website tool that we used to build & design and now we are planning to move to other host to get more space, so it seems like we need to rewrite whole website, so which is the economical and easy-to-build tool which doesn't require much technical expertise. ...
I'm working on a web app that currently has a table-based layout. Ideally I'd like to go to pure css, or failing that, a hybrid tables-and-css layout* . I've banged my head against the wall trying to understand css layouts and positioning. The main problem I'm encountering is that, depending on the state of the app, I have different th...
Hello all, I'm pretty handy with django and python but I'm terrible at the "visual" aspect of the web-design. Even after quite a bit of google-ing I haven't been able to find any sort of resource that has download-able templates complete with css, images, etc. that could be used to set up a basic website easily. I'm looking for example...
How can I get the co-ordinates of selected text in Javascript ? ...
Hey folks, I've got this idea. In a webpage design, after clicking an image i want it to merge with the background (in a washed out watermark sort of way). Essentially from an img, it has to go to a background image. Is this possible with jquery? A solution i could think of is having both a background image and the front image initiall...
I'm making a simple HTML website on which I would like users to post comments. Does anyone know of a third-party service that allows me to embed code snippets in my site which become comment boxes for users to post comments on my site at those positions, and the service takes care of all captcha / spam, etc. and I can log into an accoun...
I am designing a few templates for my website. I am laying the divs out and specifying the height and width of each. I have a large container div named main_cont. Within the 'main_cont', I have three (3) container divs named 'cont_left', 'cont_center', and 'cont_right'. Each one of those divs have three divs within them named left_1, le...
A graphic designer created a web page design and I have it in PSD now. What are the tools or techniques used to easily convert this image into HTML. ...
Basically my goal is for my page content div to be encapsulated in a round rectangle. Sort of like this: Top of round rect (White) Page content (uses a white rectangular css background) Bottom of round rect(White) So then the page content section can be as long as I need and retain the round rect shape. I'm just not sure the best way...
I'm trying to make an infinite round rectangle, but I cant seem to get the top to comply... heres what it looks like... http://animactions.ca/Animactions/accueil.php You will notice the bottom of the round rect is fine, but Iv been trying for hours to figure out the top. Thanks sorry, the site upload had failed, now it is up picture o...