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Forum: HTML and CSS 17 Days Ago
Replies: 4
Views: 522
Posted By MidiMagic
Design with Firefox first. Then fix the bugs in the IE version.

Never put size styles (width, height) and surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) on the same tag or in the same stylesheet...
Forum: HTML and CSS Sep 26th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 493
Posted By MidiMagic
Negative numbers are not part of the W3C definition for margin. Browsers go into quirks mode when they encounter them.

Note that it is NOT necessary to make a separate style sheet for IE. I have...
Forum: HTML and CSS Sep 26th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 392
Posted By MidiMagic
The background image url belongs in a style for the body tag.

I am not sure what you mean to make the image transparent. The background is supposed to be on the bottom, so there should be nothing...
Forum: HTML and CSS Aug 11th, 2009
Replies: 1
Solved: Browser Problem
Views: 229
Posted By MidiMagic
I don't click on links with IP addresses in them. They can go to malware sites.

Check these:

- Don't put size styles (width, height), and surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) on the...
Forum: HTML and CSS Aug 3rd, 2009
Replies: 26
Views: 2,324
Posted By MidiMagic
It usually works. But you can not guarantee that it will work every time. When it doesn't work, the user can refresh the page, and hopefully the path will not go though an old routing computer the...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jul 29th, 2009
Replies: 26
Views: 2,324
Posted By MidiMagic
The contents of the file do not matter. They get passed along, no matter what.

It is the name of the file, in the url, that has to meet these standards.

Like others said, your web page may not...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jul 22nd, 2009
Replies: 20
Views: 1,630
Posted By MidiMagic
You should not have this information. Spamming is the only reason anyone wants it.

The IP address is usually useless anyway. Most ISPs, hosts, and routers now generate one-time IP addresses, to...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jul 22nd, 2009
Replies: 26
Views: 2,324
Posted By MidiMagic
The problem is that this will take years to accomplish. Because governments do not agree with each other, it may never happen. You need a solution that works now.

Think about all of the various...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jul 22nd, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 662
Posted By MidiMagic
You are always going to have screen resolution problems when you define things in terms of pixels. Use percent and em to define sizes.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jul 12th, 2009
Replies: 26
Views: 2,324
Posted By MidiMagic
It is not a good idea to use any special character in a filename, because some servers and Internet nodes don't know what to do with them. Stick to the US ASCII letters and numerals.
Forum: Graphics and Multimedia Jul 8th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 387
Posted By MidiMagic
Use the blocks to build something.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 28th, 2009
Replies: 10
Views: 982
Posted By MidiMagic
I use multiple classes all the time. As long as they don't contradict each other, it works great.

Use text-align: center; to center text. The margin works on everything else, but not text.
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Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 25th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 818
Posted By MidiMagic
Look for the following:

- Note that the image itself can't contain these features. There must be some html provided by Fireworks to locate them.

- Is there a script to take care of the...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 24th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 569
Posted By MidiMagic
For compatibility with different browsers and screen resolutions, define sizes as either % or em.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 24th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 583
Posted By MidiMagic
ActiveX is NOT cross browser compatible.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 20th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 569
Posted By MidiMagic
Don't use px.

You have one pair of li tags not inside ul or ol tags.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 20th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 583
Posted By MidiMagic
The screen resolutions of the two computers are probably different. This is determined by the hardware of the monitor and the display card, and a setting in the display part of the control panel.
...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 20th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 569
Posted By MidiMagic
Something on the page is rendering 1440 pixels wide.

The odd thing is that it is not that wide on my browser, which is on a monitor that is only 1152 pixels wide. I can see the entire page.

I...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 16th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 583
Posted By MidiMagic
Your home computer probably has a different screen resolution. You have to use percentages and other relative sizing styles, not pixels and other absolute sizes, if you want it to work on all...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 16th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 1,739
Posted By MidiMagic
More:

Firefox and IE behave differently when a table will not fit in the allocated space:

- Firefox makes the table wide enough to hold the content if it can't wrap the cell contents. This will...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 16th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 1,739
Posted By MidiMagic
URLs will not wrap, and should not be wrapped. Consider the following:

- Use br tags in the url where you want to break it (do this on the text part of the a tag, not the url part)

- Shorter...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 16th, 2009
Replies: 6
Solved: Div Min-Height
Views: 853
Posted By MidiMagic
You want a lot, don't you. You night have to do this in JavaScript to get both view 3 and view 4.

Divs would give you 2 and 4, while a table will give you 3.

You could try putting a div inside...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 8th, 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 950
Posted By MidiMagic
The space is there in <br /> to make the self-closing tags compatible with IE 6 and earlier. IE renders it wrong without the space.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 8th, 2009
Replies: 5
Solved: Table height
Views: 1,368
Posted By MidiMagic
Set the height of the cells, rather than the table.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 2nd, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 726
Posted By MidiMagic
There is no pseudo class named td:white.
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback May 28th, 2009
Replies: 15
Views: 1,295
Posted By MidiMagic
I don't like this idea. Better ideas include:

- Don't display the signature link if the reputation is negative.

- Remove only the links that go to sites with the primary purpose of selling.
...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback May 28th, 2009
Replies: 17
Views: 1,484
Posted By MidiMagic
My ISP places a limit on the size of an upload. Could yours be doing that?
Forum: HTML and CSS May 28th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 462
Posted By MidiMagic
For those who didn't see it, she has an unescaped < in the first script.
Forum: HTML and CSS May 10th, 2009
Replies: 10
Views: 1,169
Posted By MidiMagic
That is ancient code. Add a style to the stylesheet instead:


table {background-color: #ff0000;}
Forum: HTML and CSS May 10th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 868
Posted By MidiMagic
Excel can save a spreadsheet as an html file, but the file is quite messy.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 27th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 934
Posted By MidiMagic
The problem is not the file, but the syntax of the command to open it.
Forum: Graphics and Multimedia Apr 18th, 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 1,419
Posted By MidiMagic
I don't know the filenames.

- I got the stand alone player from The Adobe website.

- I got the Firefox plugin when I came to website that needed it while using Firefox. Firefox installed it for...
Forum: Windows Software Apr 18th, 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 814
Posted By MidiMagic
Those sound like uninstalled files that need the proprietary installer to extract the files and install them.
Forum: Graphics and Multimedia Apr 18th, 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 1,419
Posted By MidiMagic
The stand alone player and the plugin are two different things. Also, the IE plugin and the Firefox plugin are two different things.
Forum: Graphics and Multimedia Apr 17th, 2009
Replies: 19
Views: 4,996
Posted By MidiMagic
Business = you are selling something or advertising something.

But I do not think it is right to disqualify a site because the internet hosting provider forces its own ad on the site.
Forum: HTML and CSS Apr 11th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 697
Posted By MidiMagic
I suggest that you move to xhtml.
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 29th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 704
Posted By MidiMagic
Get a book on xhtml and css.
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 24th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 614
Posted By MidiMagic
The xml line is not necessary, and causes errors on some browsers.

Look for styles containing both a size style (width, height) and a nonzero surrounding style (margin,. border, padding). These...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Mar 19th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 2,011
Posted By MidiMagic
This is because target= is deprecated.
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 19th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 616
Posted By MidiMagic
You have used stylesheet keywords as class names. That could cause a style to be invalidated.
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