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Forum: HTML and CSS Apr 12th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 707
Posted By MattEvans
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">

minor bug with...
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 24th, 2009
Replies: 32
Views: 3,230
Posted By MattEvans
Indeed.

But absolute positioning (I mean moving the displayed order of things while keeping the actual markup in a different order) is worse for a screenreader user than a (simple) table.. e.g.
...
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 23rd, 2009
Replies: 32
Views: 3,230
Posted By MattEvans
That's a myth. Screenreaders aren't confused by tables, they just read them in a specific way. Weird markup order and other 'unusual' div constructs can confuse screenreaders just as much, sometimes...
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 13th, 2009
Replies: 32
Views: 3,230
Posted By MattEvans
I agree that using tables solely for spacing probably isn't the best way to go about things.

But, I firmly believe that using tables for creating robust related columns and rows of any type is...
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 13th, 2009
Replies: 32
Views: 3,230
Posted By MattEvans
Why do you want to never use tables and only use divs?

(BTW: no-one ever answers this with a decent -- rarely even an accurate -- answer. infact, most people go and answer a completely different...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 22nd, 2009
Replies: 30
Views: 2,494
Posted By MattEvans
I found the content on midis website quite interesting, and there was way more content than I had leisure to read. Things were also laid out quite intuitively.

Good content, being able to find...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 10th, 2009
Replies: 14
Solved: CSS and Forms
Views: 1,839
Posted By MattEvans
Why don't you want to use tables?
Forum: HTML and CSS Oct 12th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 3,304
Posted By MattEvans
To center a block-type object, within another block type object, use this code on the object that you want to be centered ( i.e. on the inner object ):
style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;"...
Forum: HTML and CSS Sep 22nd, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 853
Posted By MattEvans
There's no "simple tag". Quite a few things can go wrong when you look at a page developed using one browser in another browser ( it shouldn't be the case, but it is ). The best method for ensuring...
Forum: HTML and CSS Aug 26th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 551
Posted By MattEvans
The differences aren't that complex. There's practically a 1-1 mapping between any ( solely ) XHTML document and an equivalent HTML document. Some of the potential XML-specific features won't be...
Forum: HTML and CSS Aug 25th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 551
Posted By MattEvans
Yes, you can learn XHTML without learning HTML. You should probably learn the difference, though. With regards to the actual code, most XHTML is valid HTML, but somewhat less HTML is valid XHTML (...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jun 26th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 789
Posted By MattEvans
A few tips. I follow all of these, and I don't get viruses. I run the knife and don't even use antivirus, because I know given #1, #2, #3, #5 and #8 I'm at low risk, and that given #4 I can recover...
Forum: HTML and CSS Apr 14th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 2,809
Posted By MattEvans
Designers need to know that the stuff they throw at the programmers is feasible. That means they need to be able to make more than just pretty head-in-the-sky designs, but workable designs. It's the...
Forum: HTML and CSS Apr 14th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 663
Posted By MattEvans
Have you tried setting height:100% to the body and html element? CSS:

html,body{
height:100%;
}

This should allow you to make content stretch when it's "too short" to fill the page (...
Forum: HTML and CSS Apr 14th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 5,536
Posted By MattEvans
It's not a kludge to have an outer style affect the list ( including the bullets/numbers ) and have an inner style affect the content of items themselves. Use 'relative' styles if possible , e.g use...
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 14th, 2008
Replies: 9
Views: 3,300
Posted By MattEvans
>> I don't think it's any harder to create a fluid CSS design than a tabular CSS design.

It's hard, but not impossible, to create a tabular design without tables, and it's hard, but not...
Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 13th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 2,648
Posted By MattEvans
I'm not sure what configuration tricks you'll need to perform to get this to work on Windows + XAMPP, but, the following looks 'wrong':

- your href in the HTML goes to a local file, this...
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 27th, 2008
Replies: 9
Views: 3,300
Posted By MattEvans
>> I've just seen a lot of, and herd of, talk about pure CSS layouts

I have also heard a lot of this talk. I can't imagine a CSS-only layout, since these layouts do use a few (X)HTML elements (...
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 27th, 2008
Replies: 9
Views: 3,300
Posted By MattEvans
Only one rule from me.. Don't set out to "work with divs to create a pure CSS layout", unless you're entering some wannabe-elitist competition. Use whatever's appropriate and whatever works best:...
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 27th, 2008
Replies: 21
Views: 3,530
Posted By MattEvans
The first link is the 'tidy' I'm talking about.

To use it would be a case of:

- Open page in browser
- View > Source
- Select All
- Copy
- Open Editor
- Paste
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 27th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 853
Posted By MattEvans
This seems to work fine for me (Opera):

<html>
<head>
<title>Hanging indents..</title>
<style type="text/css">
p.question, p.answer
{
margin-left:1.2em;
...
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 27th, 2008
Replies: 21
Views: 3,530
Posted By MattEvans
You can also use a commonly available command-line program called 'tidy' ( thats also the command name ) to automatically layout an HTML file.. but, read the 'tidy' documentation first; because its...
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 26th, 2008
Replies: 21
Views: 3,530
Posted By MattEvans
I think kingvjack is saying that VB will automatically format and layout code neatly (i.e. indentation, newlines, etc )

On Linux.. Quanta Plus does that, I think. Not sure about any Gnome apps,...
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 25th, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 1,194
Posted By MattEvans
Hm.. try setting the 5px top and bottom margins on the h1 to 0, and adding a padding top/ padding bottom of 5px to the div. ( same as you had before; but without setting the width of the div, or a...
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 25th, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 1,194
Posted By MattEvans
try:

body
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

div.header
{
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 25th, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 1,194
Posted By MattEvans
Use CSS:

body, html
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

Should get rid of borders on the page itself..
Forum: HTML and CSS Feb 5th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 660
Posted By MattEvans
Use only the colours from the Web-Safe pallete: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wdnut/excerpt/web_palette.html they are supposed to be the same everywhere. I find that I only need to use the websafe...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 31st, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 2,771
Posted By MattEvans
Yuk.. it's a real hack to serve diff pages to diff browsers, especially when using HTTP headers to determine the browser. How many browsers are you gonna target? What happens when the browser version...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 29th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 3,583
Posted By MattEvans
Can you post more of your code? Specifically, which CSS attributes are applied to the table, and to the large content section in the middle? Also, post the markup of the table, if you don't mind.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 29th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 1,384
Posted By MattEvans
Does the Amhric language need a special font installed? Can it be represented in Unicode? Do you want to serve an Amhric page to people physically in Ethiopia, and an English page elsewhere, or do...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 29th, 2008
Replies: 13
Views: 2,137
Posted By MattEvans
For getting the same header on every page...

- Configure your server for SSI ( server side includes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes ), or Perl / PHP, or anything else that can...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 29th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 3,583
Posted By MattEvans
The easiest way to get that look is with a <table> element, especially if you want text in either of the two side columns. Otherwise.. you can do some tricks with background color, etc, to make it...
Forum: HTML and CSS Nov 27th, 2007
Replies: 23
Views: 13,744
Posted By MattEvans
If the user doesn't have 'rights' to download the stylesheet then it wont affect any pages they view. if i read your <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"href="style.css" />, I know that 'style.css'...
Forum: HTML and CSS Nov 21st, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 2,198
Posted By MattEvans
Hm.. the only other thing I can suggest is putting a background color on the movie that fits in better with the other colors on your page. That's not really a fix though, by any means. You could also...
Forum: HTML and CSS Nov 20th, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 2,198
Posted By MattEvans
Try adding CSS like this to wherever the rest of your styles are defined:

object,embed
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

That's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head... Also.. check...
Forum: HTML and CSS Nov 7th, 2007
Replies: 1
Views: 5,945
Posted By MattEvans
It can be done with Javascript, using the function "window.print( );"
Forum: HTML and CSS Nov 7th, 2007
Replies: 3
Views: 953
Posted By MattEvans
XHMTML id is NEVER required. name isn't required for form elements ( or even fields ) in HTML. It's optional. Not every form needs a name or id; not every form is necessarily accessed via...
Forum: HTML and CSS Nov 7th, 2007
Replies: 18
Views: 7,181
Posted By MattEvans
If you document.write( ) AFTER the page has loaded fully, it tends to write in a new, blank page ( http://javascript.about.com/library/blwrite.htm ). It's not particularly well standardized behaviour...
Forum: HTML and CSS Oct 14th, 2007
Replies: 21
Views: 14,971
Posted By MattEvans
Hm, I can't seem to reproduce the problem.. Using the code in post #4 with no modifications ( except changing the imgs' srcs to point at Matty's server )... Firefox 2 on Linux, screenshot attached.....
Forum: HTML and CSS Oct 14th, 2007
Replies: 21
Views: 14,971
Posted By MattEvans
Have you got code for a page that I can look at?
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