I've noticed a lot of sites, SO included, use XHTML as their mark-up language and then fail to adhere to the spec. Just browsing the source for SO there are missing closing tags for paragraphs, invalid elements, etc. So should tools (and developers) use the XHTML doctype if they are going to produce invalid mark up? And should browsers ...
When developing a new web based application which version of html should you aim for? EDIT: cool I was just attempting to get a feel from others I tend to use XHTML 1.0 Strict in my own work and Transitional when others are involved in the content creation. I marked the first XHTML 1.0 Transitional post as the 'correct answer' but bel...
I'm generating some XML documents and when it comes to the address part I have fragments that look like this: <Address>15 Sample St Example Bay Some Country</Address> The XSLT that I have for converting this to XHTML has some funky recursive template to convert newline characters within strings to <br/> tags. This is all working fine...
Even though I always strive for complete validation these days, I often wonder if it's a waste of time. If the code runs and it looks the same in all browsers (I use browsershots.org to verify) then do I need to take it any further or am I just being overly anal? What level do you hold your code to when you create it for: a) yourself ...
I'm looking to create a menu bar similar to those found in desktop applications using xhtml and javascript. I don't mind using a framework like jQuery (in fact I'm already using jQuery for other behaviour in the app), but I'd like to avoid using a plugin or an external js solution (the idea is to keep it as light and as tightly-controll...
What's the best way to make an element of 100% minimum height across a wide range of browsers ? In particular if you have a layout with a header and footer of fixed height how do you make the middle content part fill 100% of the space in between with the footer fixed to the bottom ? ...
Header, footer and sidebars have fixed position. In the center a content area with both scroll bars. No outer scroll bars on the browser. I have a layout that works in IE7 and FF. I need to add IE6 support. How can I make this work? Here is an approximation of my current CSS. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//...
The HTML standard defines a clear separation of concerns between CSS (presentation) and HTML (semantics or structure). Does anyone use a coding standards document for CSS and XHTML that has clauses which help to maintain this separation? What would be good clauses to include in such a coding standards document? ...
I know Microsoft has made efforts in the direction of semantic and cross-browser compliant XHTML and CSS, but it still seems like a PitA to pull off elegant markup. I've downloaded and tweaked the CSS Friendly Adapters and all that. But I still find myself frustrated with bloated and unattractive code. Is elegant, semantic CSS with ASP....
Hello, How would you programmacially abbriviate XHTML to an arbitrary number of words without leaving unclosed or corrupted tags? E.g. this: <p> Proin tristique dapibus neque. Nam eget purus sit amet leo tincidunt accumsan. </p> <p> Proin semper, orci at mattis blandit, augue justo blandit nulla. <span>Quisque ante con...
What's the best way to go about validating that a document follows some version of HTML (prefereably that I can specify)? I'd like to be able to know where the failures occur, as in a web-based validator, except in a native Python app. ...
Hi, Can anyone out there recommend a good online resource for CSS 'design patterns'? I know design patterns in a software context usually refer to OO based design patterns, but I mean design patterns in the broader sense of the term: i.e. common, clean solutions to common problems / tasks. An example of such a resource would be this l...
Hi, I have a container div with a fixed width and height, with overflow: hidden. I want a horizontal row of float: left divs within this container. Divs which are floated left will naturally push onto the 'line' below after they read the right bound of their parent. This will happen even if the height of the parent should not allow thi...
Is it possible to embed a powerpoint presentation (ppt) into a webpage (xhtml)? This will be used on a local Intranet where there is a mix of IE6 and 7 only so no need to consider other browsers. ...
given this html: <ul id="topnav"> <li id="topnav_galleries"><a href="#">Galleries</a></li> <li id="topnav_information"><a href="#">Information</a></li> </ul> and this css: #topnav_galleries a, #topnav_information a { background-repeat: no-repeat; text-indent: -9000px; padding: 0; margin: 0 0; overflow: hidden; height: 4...
I'm currently trying ElementTree and it looks fine, it escapes HTML entities and so on and so forth. Am I missing something truly wonderful I haven't heard of? This is similar to what I'm actually doing: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET root = ET.Element('html') head = ET.SubElement(root,'head') script = ET.SubElement(head,'script') ...
My problem is that my XML document contains snippets of XHTML within it and while passing it through an XSLT I would like it to render those snippets without mangling them. I've tried wrapping the snippet in a CDATA but it doesn't work since less than and greater than are translated to < and > as opposed to being echoed directly. What'...
I'm a front-end developer and I was looking for opinions about the best all-round online documentation for javascript/css/html/xhtml/dom/browser quirks and support. I've tried Sitepoint, Quirksmode, W3Schools but all of these seem to be lacking in certain aspects and have been using them in combination. ...
Are CDATA tags ever necessary in script tags and if so when? In other words, when and where is this: <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ ...code... //]]> </script> preferable to this: <script type="text/javascript"> ...code... </script> ...
Are there any noted differences in appearance rendering of html and xhtml in Google Chrome from Firefox? From IE? From other browsers/what browser does it render the code the most similar to? ...