Posts by MidiMagic

The id attribute is replacing the name attribute.

Remember that the browser looks at the fonts installed on the USER'S computer, not your host. The user would have to voluntarily install your font for the browser to be able to use it.

Your best option, if you must use a nonstandard font, is to use MSPaint to stick it into an image file, and then display that.

Stop using pixels!!!!

Pixels for sizes make pages incompatible with different screen resolutions.

Define all sizes with ems (for text) or percent (for screen layout).

For those who didn't see it, she has an unescaped < in the first script.

This is a known bug. Divs don't behave properly inside table cells.

Browsers do not display tag pairs with nothing between the tags unless they are needed to render something else.

Put something between the tags. The usual filler for an empty pair of tags is either <br /> or   .

I do so hate sites that do that. Inevitably the image that pops up hides the one I wanted, so I can't get to it.

Please don't make stuff happen unless I actually click.

Because the script is placed before the form in the html, the rendering parser has not yet read the form tag, so it does not yet know what the id "eb" is when the script runs.

Place scripts after the objects they modify, if they must be in the body.

My students are permitted to search DaniWeb for answers concerning web design.

The classroom erupted this week, because there is a stupid ad from SitePal that makes the computers talk.

Must ad companies become more and more annoying???

They are NOT going to sell their product by making people mad. And I wish there was a permanent way to block that particular kind of content.

Why can't you control the content?

With a normal host, you don't have to do anything. Indexing is automatic when the following are present:

- The host does not prohibit robots from searching it.

- The home page is named according to the home page rule the host uses.

- Each page can be reached by following a link or a chain of links from the home page. (A page that is not linked to and is not the home page will not be found.)

My pages usually index within a day or two, depending on how long it takes for the robots traversing the entire internet to stumble upon it.

As long as robots are not prohibited from searching your host, and as long as your homepage is named the name your host requires, the indexing should be automatic. Mine always appear within a day or two without any coaxing from me. I don't have to do anything, except upload the new pages and provide a link or a path of links that reaches from the homepage to the new pages.

I used to have a website on a host that prohibited robots. But because other people linked to my pages after I told them where they were, they also appeared on Google. I am amazed that some of them are still there, even though the site is now just a link site of the old urls with simple pages containing links to the new pages on my new site.

You can not set the size of something to exactly fit the height of the browser window in a way that works on all browsers. Do not waste your time trying to do this.

When width and height conflict in the sizes they need for an object, width has priority over height.

With some browsers, 100% height is 100% of the height of the document, not the browser window.

The display of web pages is not intended to exactly fill the screen in the vertical direction. This use was never intended. It is designed to expand downward until all of the content is rendered.

Word wrap needs a whitespace character to have a place to wrap.

what's the ideal width for a page?

The ideal width of a page is 100% of the browser window.

Never use pixels or other absolute measures to set widths. Set the widths of items on the page as percentages of the page width.

IE and Firefox display things slightly different:

- IE makes characters in some fonts one pixel wider than Firefox does.

- Firefox counts the surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) as being OUTSIDE the declared width or height of some box objects. IE stuffs those surrounding styles INSIDE the declared width or height of the box object. So Firefox renders the object in a largfer space.

To fix this, nest two box objects, one with the declared size, and the other with the surrounding styles.

You probably bumped your mouse wheel. It normally sets the size.

Two points:

use:

.stylename for a class

#stylename for an id

Note that class can be used on multiple tags, id can not.

The use of width= in the tag causes some browsers to ignore the style. Put the width and border in the style too.

That explains it. The servers are migrating! :icon_cheesygrin:

The problem is that the page doesn't load until the ad server has returned the ad. If the ad server is too busy, the user has to wait until the browser times out to get the rest of the page.

Then the animated movie often locks the users browser until the ad finishes playing.

Firefox has one that works here.

Usually this means that the page owner has neglected to update the certificate and it expired.

That is ancient code. Add a style to the stylesheet instead:

table {background-color: #ff0000;}

There are at least 6 conflicting uses using .dwt as an extension. Which one is it?

Why did you slice it up in the first place?

Putting slices together does not work well if you also try to put something on top of the slices.

Excel can save a spreadsheet as an html file, but the file is quite messy.

IE counts the widths of padding, border, and margin inside a width or height declaration. Other browsers place these outside the width or height size declared.

Do not put px on a zero value. It is not supported. Put 0 instead of 0px.

The best template system is none.

The file has to be on the server. Nothing else can find a file that is saved on your own computer.

Part of the problem is that there is no agreement on what the text on the buttons means.

In this BBS, "Post Quick Reply" is used AFTER you write your post.

In another BBS I use, "Post Quick Reply" opens the text box so you can type the reply. "Save" posts the reply.

In yet another BBS I use, "Post Reply" opens the text box. The text box has another button below it "Post Reply" that posts the message. But the original "Post Reply" button is above the text box, and if you push it to submit the post, it erases your text. It also has a "Save" button that saves your post, so you can go get something, then come back and edit it.

The problem is not the file, but the syntax of the command to open it.

IE often does things one pixel different. You have to make your designs so a pixel does not matter.

You are losing hover when the mouse moves away from the object.

This is a job for javascript.

Just put in text for the path of the object. Since you know where you put the page, you know what to type.

The trail the user used to get to your page is in the user's browser, but you can't have that for security reasons.

Make a style, and set the width to 20em (or 21 for some room) in the style.

There are a couple of problems here:

- You have the width declared twice, once in the style and once in the tag. In at least one case, they are different.

- What doctype are you using? The width and height parameters are deprecated in xhtml.

- Why are you using pixels? Use percent.

You are going to have to repeat whatever action makes your rounded corners after the message appears.

404 error means that the server couldn't find the page, or you do not have permission to have it.

Line 2 is busted code. What did you leave out before the = sign?

I can tell you why double posting in the same thread occurs. It happens to me all the time. But I usually edit the duplicate to say something else.

When you go to post, sometimes you never get the reply back from DaniWeb. The browser either times out or sits there indefinitely waiting for a failed advertisement to load. If you then use Refresh to get the new version of the page, it posts the same post again.

This is a security violation. You should manually enter the password each time.

Two things I noticed:

1. A value of zero with a unit of measure attached causes Firefox to throw away the style. Do not write 0px in styles. Just write 0.

2. The center tag is deprecated. Do not count on the ability to use it in the future.

You have to also send the one that is already on top back down when it loses focus.

I just realized something. Publishers want vector graphics versions of drawings so they can enlarge or reduce the size of the drawing without problems related to changes in resolution.

But if a vector graphics image that is a raster scan of a photograph is enlarged or reduced, the scan lines will be overlapped or separated, and the photo would no longer appear to be a photo. This defeats the purpose.

You do not have the standalone player. See your other thread.

Once you have the standalone player, you can right click on the shortcut icon and find out the name and location of the player executable file. This information can then be put into the My Computer file associations.

But I would bet that installing the player automatically sets the association, or asks you if you want to.

yea I need the standalone player. which one is it?

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 me when I gave the OK.

- I got the IE plugin when I went to the same website that needed it while using IE. IE installed it for me when I gave the OK.

I had the same trouble.

My printer knows it can't print that close to the edge of the paper, so it won't do it.

Telling the printer that the paper is a different size just moves the definition of the bottom of the page. But the software still wants to put the border too close to the new bottom. The printer still thinks the border is too close to the edge.

Most Lexmark printers have this problem, because the rollers let go of the paper before the printhead gets that low on it.

Do this:

- Go into the page layout dialog box and set the bottom border higher.

- Go into the Page Borders dialog box and make the border you want. Then, before leaving the dialog box, use the Options button.

- In the new dialog box, select to measure from the edge of the text, rather than the edge of the paper.

- Click OK for each dialog box.

I tested this on Word 2003 and 2007. I have no earlier version of Word.

My question is:

Why do you have 50000 files in your "my Documents" folder?

How many of those files are actually in active use and need to be synchronized?

Using My Computer, I created a folder on the C drive called My Stuff. Then I used My Computer to move all of the folders I need to keep, but that are not in current use, out of the My Documents folder and into the My Stuff folder.

An example of things I keep in folders within My Stuff instead of My Computer:
- Photos I have taken
- Anything I download
- Finished projects (you can drag it back to My Documents if needed)
- Previous year's files
- Email backups

Those sound like uninstalled files that need the proprietary installer to extract the files and install them.

They were probably permanently deleted.

I always backed up my outlook files to the backup CD once a week, so if something horrible happened, I had copies.

See if a backup disk was made before the change to 2007, as the instructions suggest. It might contain the information.

Also look in the wastebasket files, if they haven't been automatically deleted by now.

I thought something like this was happening, and found out that a website I access for my job was installing software on my computer without my permission. It was a player needed to use the website. This might be happening to you.

Have we gotten to the point where websites have the right to install programs on our computers without first asking for permission?