Posts by MidiMagic

Put the image tag between the a tags.

<a href="page.htm"><img src="pic.gif" /></a>

There are some tricks (mostly things to avoid):

- DON'T put size attributes (height and width) and surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) in the same tag, whether done inline or css. Instead, nest two objects, one for the size, and one for the surrounding styles.

- Define the vertical alignment for table cells. IE has a different default.

- Don't use surrounding styles on heading (H1, H2, etc) tags and HR. They do totally different things in IE.

- The fonts render heavier in IE.

- List tags do not work right in IE inside a div. They do work inside a table.

What the W3C wanted us to stop doing is using tables to make margins and borders.. At one time, this was the only way to do margins and borders that worked on all browsers.

My rule is:

If I need a rigid structure, I use a table.

If the structure can be allowed to float, I use divs.

Since frames are not in XHTML 1.0 Strict (which employers want to see), I don't use them.

Put it inside code pseudotags, like it says in the watermark.

It may be disabled in your browser.

There is a setting to override page colors for links and always use the standard colors.

This is why you should never change the link colors.

You need to put a space before the / in the self-closing tags.

<br /> is OK

<br/> is not OK.

Are you putting string values into field[12] ?

I had this trouble.

The problem is that IE does not update the screen until there are no scripts running.

So you need to temporarily end the script, and use setInterval to start another function after a short pause.

This is not yours to control. It belongs to the user who owns the computer.

The first statement is different.

It is still taking time fir the first 12 templates to load.

I am trying to use the icons that used to be displayed. So they are definitely .ico files.

When I use "Change Icon" in Properties in My Computer, it goes through the motions, but the icons do not change in the File Types list.

Also, my computer suddenly changed from defaulting to Firefox to defaulting to IE at the same time. This all happened the day after MS upgraded IE.

1. Check your Audio Mixer (In Volume Control). It has different faders for different kinds of files.

2. Some video files are like that. The guy doesn't have the know-how or equipment to make them loud.

Why are the icons in My computer all nearly alike now?

All of them (except the folders) now look like little blue pieces of paper with a very tiny little picture of the icon that used to be there inside.

I can't visually tell them apart now. This makes it much harder to find the file I want easily.

In addition, My Computer won't let me change the icons to the old ones.

I don't care that the file is a "document." I need to be able to tell at a glance what KIND of document it is. All I see for all of the following kinds of files is a blue piece of paper with a folded down edge, and a little red-orange smudge inside:

bmp, gif, htm, html, jpg

The smudges are different, but not different enough to tell at a glance which kind of file it is. This makes it much harder to do my work. Whoever thought this up deserves a kick into next week.

What's going on?

I tried it.

Immediately after doing the Detect and Repair, the template thumbnails loaded fast.

After booting, it reverted to taking time to load, but now it takes time for only the first 12 templates.

One other clue: I didn't originally install this feature, because I didn't think I would ever use it. I installed it later because the course I teach uses it.

Thank you C6H1206

I don't have any issues getting the html file to send as email...the issue comes when anyone forward the original email on...the next recipient only get text and the image area is left blank without the standard box with an x in it.

You can't control this. This setting belongs to the user who forwarded the email. It's a setting on his computer.

An id can be used only once. It can NOT appear in multiple tags.

You need to give each tag a unique id, and then cycle through the ids with a loop in js.

e.g.

<a .... id="aa1">
<a .... id="aa2">
<a .... id="aa3">
<a .... id="aa4">
<a .... id="aa5">

This is a common problem. Suggestions:

1. Use real html to define the basic page. Don't put everything in a script.

2. Remember to not apply defined block object sizes (width or height) and surrounding styles (margin, border, padding) to the same tag. This is true whether you use inline styles or CSS. IE and FF nest these two types of styles in opposite orders.

3. Apply the page master margins as padding in the body tag.

4. You may have to apply justification styles specifically to table elements. IE defaults to top-justifying table cells, FF defaults to middle-justifying them.

Blame Pakistan.

They set up a system to block their citizens from seeing YouTube and several other sites that broadcast stuff that violates Islamic regulations.

Their system represented itself as the prime server to access these sites, and then it threw the requests away. But it affected the entire Internet, not just users in Pakistan.

This info was in today's newspaper.

I traced it to my virus checker holding up the video for a few seconds until it could catch up. Then the video starts again.

I will not let Quicktime on my system for the reason stated above.

I will give that a try.

I just noticed that you said the cell to be changed contains other data. The above will not work if the other cell is to display a value not related to the color displayed.

- Conditional formatting works on the value of the cell itself, not the value of another cell.

- If always replaces the current value of the cell.

I have two suggestions:

1. Put some text in with the date to be displayed in the IF function (assuming the date is not just entered - it must be a calculated value). Then look for the text in the conditional formatting.

2. Use a macro.

You will have to combine them:

1. Use an IF function to find out if the other cell contains "Complete"

2. Have the Then and Else portions of the IF function place different values in the current cell.

3. Use conditional formatting to select the color.

4. If you don't want the values you put in the cell to show, let the conditional formatting set the text color the same as the background color.

Check your Audio Mixer settings.

All of your tags should be lowercase.

You need JavaScript to do something dynamic such as what you want..

2. How do I make sure the size of the page stays fixed across browsers/computers? it seems to change from one computer to the next.

You don't.

What you want is impossible.

Since different browsers use different rendering methods, and different computers have different screen resolutions, this is an unsolvable problem. Anything done to fix one particular computer's view messes up other computers' views.

In addition, each user may have selected a different base font size for legibility.

The best you can do is make stuff small enough to fit on the lowest screen resolution you intend clients to be able to use, and put things at the top of the page. Then, at least all computers within your limit can display the page without scrolling.

One tip: Don't put both defined object sizes (height and width) and surrounding styles (margin, border, and padding) on the same block tag. Instead, nest two block tags, one with sizes, and the other with surrounding styles.

IE and FF render such combined-use tags in opposite orders of style nesting (IE puts the surrounding styles inside the sizes, FF puts the sizes inside the surrounding styles).

Try accessing the sites without using bookmarks.

If this works, it means that there was something in a bookmark that is no longer valid (usually due to a site upgrade).

If you are using a bookmark, try typing in the url for the site without using the bookmark.

Site upgrades frequently cause this problem when bookmarks are used, especially if the bookmark goes somewhere other than the site home page.

I came across this problem before, and it was caused by bookmarking a page other than the main site entry page.

When they do a site upgrade, the old page still works, because they haven't removed it yet. But the links on the old page don't work.

Try typing in the real site home page url instead of using a bookmark, and see if that works.

You should not be saving passwords in IE.

I think I now know what is going on.

- There is very little disk drive usage during the delays.

- PP is using 98% CPU during the delays. But PP does not show such a CPU usage at any other time.

- There is no internet activity during this delay.

- It speeds things up to click on the templates that do not yet display.

I believe PP is converting the images in the .pot files to the screen resolution I am using (1152 X 864).

Is there any way to make it save the images, rather than convert them each time?

I meant it was a guess on your part.

I checked the format and defragged the drive. No change in the behavior of PowerPoint.

Like I said, the computer isn't showing that it is doing anything between the times the thumbnails appear. If it had been a fragmented disk or an overloaded CPU, it would be showing a lot of activity. It is not.

It's almost like someone put a setInterval in to start the next thumbnail load after a delay.

I have had another problem that makes a double post:

Sometimes when I post, DaniWeb never sends me the new page (or somehow I never get it). Thus, I think the operation failed, and I click the post button again.

That's funny... If I compile a big program or run a game my fan also kicks in.

Maybe my laptop is just absolutely STUPID?

Niek

You are using the hard disk drive more. That does produce more heat.

Also, you probably notice the fan more when you are waiting for something to finish, than when you are busy doing something thought-intensive.

In every machine I have ever used, the fan either runs on high all the time, or cycles between high and low on a periodic basis, depending on the heat produced. During exams, when everyone has to be quiet, I hear the various computers cycling between high and low fan in a seemingly random pattern. If starting the exam produced more heat, they should all go to high at about the same time.

There is one other possibility, and that is a smart program or hardware in some brands of computers is figuring out when the disk drive is about to be used more, and turning up the fan in anticipation.

I'm ON Yahoo. If I change to anything else, I lose money two ways:

- Clients know where I am now.

- Monthly fees.

Yahoo has been down twice since I got my current email.

Their rule should allow for time for an ISP to recover after an outage.

Also, at my last location, there was an ISP monopoly. You had to have one email address that could never change.

Have more than 8 albums.

Possibilities:

- Attach to an email.

- FTP

xhtml is also case sensitive. All tags, properties, and attributes must be lowercase.

Why not just float the image to the left or the right as needed, and let the text wrap around it.

I wish people would do that, instead of using real popups.

Look in the html instead of the js.

Also, you need to use a timer to start the function to load the flash file, and use events to cancel the timer.

Try that again with smileys turned off.

I have installed all of the upgrades.

I have checked to see if it is some kind of computer overload, and it is not. CPU usage is minimal, the hard drive light flashes just before each thumbnail loads, and there is no internet traffic. It's almost as though someone put a timer in there to slow this down.

Defraging the disk is just a guess. I defragged it a few months ago. But if the disk were fragmented, the disk access light would be on all the time. It is not.

This is a security setting, in either Outlook or Internet Explorer.

Several thoughts:

1. Your ISP may have acquired a heavy using client that loads down the trunk.

2. The server computer providing the downloads may be deluged with users or spam attacks.

3. The weather can affect DSL speeds.

4. Look for malware.

What you have to do is NOT choose the "do this with all files of this type" checkbox when you download a file. Then it asks you what to do with the file.

...MidiMagic...
I think you "overead" into what he seems to want - a simple two column layout with Header and Footer... nothing complicated nor impossible with that.

He wanted it to touch the bottom of the screen. That is the impossible part.

You have to match your code to the code in the CSS by class and id names.

Columns of what, in what kind of file?

You can use a 1D array as a 2D array.

Just count the first 15 elements as line 1, the second 15 elements as line 2, and so on.