Posts by MidiMagic

Absolute positioning causes all kinds of hard to fix trouble. My advice is DON'T!

Can we see some code?

That's what indenting is for.

There is no such thing. How would it know what the name of the "next " page is, without you telling it?

Set the hyperlinks on each page. That's all you can do without a lot of tricky JS code.

It would help to see your code.

If you are trying to make content fit within one screen on each user's monitor, it is not possible without all kinds of tricky JS programming. The web is designed so content expands downward to accommodate all available text.

The internet is not designed to give you a screen to play with. There is no such thing as a footer in web design (other than a displayed last line of a table). The best you can do is adjust things so they fit on the smallest resolution (use 640 x 480), and then let them expand or move as needed on larger screens.

You can approximate, by using sizes defined in inches or centimeters. Put everything you want contained inside a div having a defined size and a black border.

But be prepared for the div to expand beyond the defined size if the content won't fit. Divs are fluid in nature.

JavaScript may be in use to provide the smooth scrolling.

Both the center tag and the align= parameter are deprecated. They will stop working sometime in the near future, when HTML 4 is no longer supported. They do not work at all in XHTML now. Please don't give obsolete solutions.

There are two things going on here:

1. For some strange reason, the W3C does not want us to center anything but text. I think they are thinking in terms of books and newspapers, as opposed to homepages and advertising. No easy way to center anything else was provided, other than styles involving automatic margins or a clear on both sides.

2. IE doesn't follow the rules. Even when you apply the correct styles, IE doesn't understand what you wanted. But adding a style to center text alignment also makes the others work.

Don't specify sizes in pixels except for images. Using pixels for the sizes of other objects keeps the page from being compatible with various screen resolutions.

Don't use tables to create non-tabular structures, unless nothing else can be made to work. The table is not deprecated, but the use listed in the post above is an abuse.

The solution in the post above also has tangled tags, and will not pass W3C validation.

It's the antivirus checking for new nasties.

If you forget to use the eject button in the Notification Area of the taskbar before removing the thumb drive, it leaves a drive definition in there of the drive it still thinks is there. Then when you plug in the drive again, it requests two new drive letters.

Another possibility is that the target is a kind of file IE doesn't know how to save.

Some websites are getting too selfish, encoding their materials so they can't be saved.

The minus signs prevent Google indexing, because minus means "do not include" in Google. Change the file name to not include minus signs.

Wow!

But the name of the company is ambiguous, with one character indeterminate to the eye.

You are really supposed to put things side by side, rather than trying to pile stuff on top of other stuff. You might try z-axis, but don't expect it to work on all browsers.

Most players (.flv, .mpg, .pda) expect to be on top, because images can move in players.

Smooth scrolling belongs to the owner of the computer, not to you.

Capital letters in styles is also deprecated.

You should not have to use conditional styles. The trick is to nest two tags, one for surrounding styles, and one for size styles.

All you have to do is specify the .css extension in the filename when you save the file. I don't try to change the file type dropdown. It works for me for both .htm and .css files.

You have a lot of errors:

- Values of 0 can NOT have units of measure attached.

Wrong: 0px
Right: 0

- You have size styles and nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same tag or style.

Thanks for your replies. BuddyLee: I tried that in an external style sheet but it doesn't load the image on the page. Know why? Here is my tag for it:

TD.MAINCELL{
	FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 105%; background-image: url("bricks.jpg"); BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: "arial", sans-serif
}

Thanks

Capital letters are not allowed in styles, attributes, and tags in xhtml.

Try adding styles to the sup tag.

You can NOT make a page exactly fit the screen on all computers.

Is repetition turned off in the browser settings?

It can take 3-4 seconds just to handshake with the server before it starts to download the file. What do you want, miracles?

You act as though you were the only person using the internet. In reality, you are being delayed by:

- Your connection to your ISP, if it is slow.

- Your ISP making your page request wait for other page requests from other users, submitted before yours.

- General congestion on the Internet.

- The server holding your web page having to serve all of the other page requests it got before your request came in.

- The server holding your web page giving priority to small files over large files, to serve the largest number of users faster.

- If the server adds advertising to your page, it must wait for the advertising server to deliver its part of the page. This can take minutes with some ad servers (notably doubleclick.net).

- General congestion on the internet in the other direction.

- Your ISP firewall having to check your file for malware before allowing it to come into the ISP.

- Your ISP making your returning page wait for other page requests from other users, that came in before yours.

- Your ISP making sure the entire page is complete before giving it to you.

- Your connection to your ISP, if it is slow in the other direction.

- Your …

First, you are using size styles (width, height) and nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same style or tag. This is guaranteed to cause a FF/IE incompatibility.

Second, you need to understand the hierarchy of styles.

Highest
- specific class or id styles from a stylesheet
- specific tag styles from a stylesheet
- specific styles in html
- document-wide formatting from a stylesheet
- document-wide formatting from html
lowest

Within the same level of hierarchy, styles placed at the bottom of the stylesheet have precedence over styles placed at the top.

I suggest you use a class to assign specific styles that over ride the styles otherwise in use. Place the specific styles last in the stylesheet.

That is NOT a good reason to disable a function. The W3C Requires the alt attribute for accessibility.

The only other thing I can think of is a kludge:

Make the color of the text and the background the same color.

I borrowed a USB DVD drive from a colleague.

Microsoft just wants to extort money out of us to keep what we already have. They should be require to keep supporting and selling the product to keep their copyright on it.

I'd say the power supply failed.

Tell the sender to use a different format.

Microsoft is greedy. They think you bought XP after the last day it is supposed to be sold.

This kind of software registration demand should be illegal. It is too easily abused.

It's a setting in the player on the user's computer.

<br> </br> is invalid code. It's <br />

There is no such thing as 100% height in regards to the browser window. You can't control the height to make it fit on a screen in a way that works on all browsers and screen resolutions.

The Internet is designed to start at the top, and then expand downward until the content is exhausted. With so many different screen resolutions, the same page will scroll on some computers and have extra space at the bottom on others.

I installed Windows on an empty computer the other day. It defaulted to an 800 X 600 screen.

I see some problems:

- You have 0px in your styles. 0 must be alone, without a unit of measure. 0px, 0em, 0%, 0pt, and other 0 values with units of measure attached cause Firefox to throw away the entire style.

- You have surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same style or tag as size styles (widths and heights). IE renders these in the wrong nesting order, compared to other browsers.

You didn't close your curly bracket in the style.

Remember that, in IE, the margin, border, and padding are wrongly rendered inside the width and height. This can make the image fail to render because it won't fit.

FF and other standard-compliant browsers put the surrounding styles outside the widths and heights.

It's easy, even with accessibility:

<ul id="main_nav">
  <li>
    <a href=""><img src="link_1.jpg" alt="This is link 1" /></a>
  </li>
</ul>

IE renders surrounding styles (margin,. border, padding) inside defined widths and heights. This is nonstandard behavior.

Other browsers put the surrounding styles outside the widths and heights.

The trick is to nest two tags, one with the surrounding styles, the other with the sizes. Then, they render the same on both kinds of browsers.

Do not expect to center things vertically in the browser window. It won't work on all browsers or all screen resolutions.

There are several problems with layers, and problems in your styles:

- With layers, the mouse position operations should work on just the top layer. Even though the top layer might be transparent, mouse detection and control devices located under the top layer can't get focus or see the mouse. What you want is the equivalent of clicking on one Windows window and expecting to work a button on a window under it.

Z-index is not well implemented yet.

There are problems with your styles. e.g.:

#secondary{
	margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
	width: 100%;
	height: 15px;
	font: 0.7em arial, verdana, sans-serif;
	background-color: #494949;
	padding: 5px 0px 5px 0px;
	text-indent: 20px;
}

You have 0px in your styles. 0 must NOT have a unit of measure. Firefox cancels the whole style if it encounters a 0 with a unit of measure, such as 0px, 0pt, 0em, 0%. Remove the units of measure on 0 values. Like this:

#secondary{
	margin: 0;
	width: 100%;
	height: 15px;
	font: 0.7em arial, verdana, sans-serif;
	background-color: #494949;
	padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
	text-indent: 20px;
}

You have size styles (height, width) and nonzero surrounding styles in the same style or tag. This causes the noncompliant IE to behave very differently from the other browsers that follow the standards.

It is better to use a relative size, such as points, ems, or percent, rather than the absolute pixels. Then the page doesn't change so much with a change in screen resolution.

I have seen it happen in two different people.

There is one big IE incompatibility that happens when you define size styles (width, height) in the same tag that has nonzero surrounding styles (margin, border, padding). It can also happen with images.

FF and the other browsers that follow the W3C standard put the surrounding styles outside the size styles, like this (outside to inside):

margin
border
padding
width/height

IE changes the order of nesting within a single tag, cramming the surrounding styles inside the size styles:

width/height
margin
border
padding

If a set of objects is designed to fit exactly in a given space, it can fail if this order is reversed.

My Office 2007 just arrived. But it came on DVDs. But I don't have a DVD drive. Short of buying a drive I don't otherwise need, is there any way to install it? I must have it installed in two days.

Still looking......

Do you have an anti-malware program set to check the floppy drives or the CD?

You have to buy (actually, rent) the domain name from InterNIC. It costs $70 to register for the first 2 years, and $35 a year after that.

But you have to first check that your proposed name is not already taken.

Then you have to make arrangements with your ISP to do this. This may incur another fee. You might have to change to another ISP, depending on their capabilities.

Geocities offers all of this in a package for a monthly fee. But the server is on their computer, not yours.

The problem is that most software developers set prices as though businesses are the only customers. Individuals can't afford those prices.

I had trouble with the entire Internet that day. Nothing would load.

Questions:

- Have you already defined the object named imageArea? Or do you even know what it is?

- Is there a case difference between imageArea and what you wanted (say, ImageArea or imagearea)?

- It might be a bug in the program.

No motion.

It depends on what you are trying to do.

GENERAL:

If you are creating a picture, there is no real problem with any color combinations.

There are some elitists who want to force their aesthetics on others. They don't like certain color combinations. Some of my personal dislikes are:

red, yellow, and violet, without green
red, yellow, and cyan, without green
red, yellow, and blue, without green
magenta, cream, and powder blue
lavender, peach, and powder blue

But personal dislikes are not universal. Every person has different color combinations he dislikes. Ignore personal dislikes.

There are others who say that color combinations at certain angles on a color wheel are bad. But their science is bad, because they are using color wheels based on the erroneous red-yellow-blue primaries.

TEXT:

If you have one color as the text and the other color as the background, then there are a lot of restrictions, because the text becomes very hard to read in certain cases:

- If the grayscale level is the same, the text disappears on a monochrome monitor.

- The human eye has a lower resolution for color differences than it has for differences in lightness. This makes small colored characters hard to read on a colored background, especially on low resolution monitors.

Color blindness makes certain colors appear to be identical:

- Red, orange, yellow, and green all look the same to a green-blind …

I change the size of my browser window to see how the page behaves at different resolutions.