Posts by MidiMagic

We shoule not be helping a student to bypass government-installed filters. There is a possibility that anyone who helps with this will be charged with complicity, if an illegal act occurs.

Bypassing computer security without authorization is a crime.

I can't use the BBS at all with the bumbling tooltips there. It keeps me from reading the forum names correctly, by causing the same visual read errors the moving ads and the gray "Use the code tags" text cause.

The solution is to get rid of the bumbling tooltip permanently. Let the browser tooltip do its job. You can't control the browser tooltip, because it is a function of the USER's browser settings on his own computer. Changing the settings of a user's browser is blocked by security rules.

Firefox has no tooltip settings. It's always on.

I saw it too, before I turned off Daniweb tooltips. But the yellow one is the browser's.

You could have a hard drive your BIOS can't recognixe, or can't be set for.

Could it be that they are working, but popups are blocked by either the server or the browser?

I saw "its hark" instead.

So how did you do it?

I was trying to clean up the page and I thought it was self-explanatory. For example, regarding the pencil, it should be pretty obvious after seeing the pencil a few times that it's threads you have posted in, and when you hover over the icon, it even tells you that you've posted in it.

And then the new post icon always corresponds to threads whose title is in bold, so that seemed a little redundant too.

If others weren't using similar icons for different purposes, it might be clear. But a pencil is "edit the post" on eBay and A&E, and a checkmark means "you have posted" on another site.

I couldn't tell what the object inside the orange circle is. It looks like a square.

Why did you get rid of the menu? I didn't know what any of them except the fire meant.

Of course, that becomes a headache if your URL changes for some reason, You have to edit every file and change it (just like I had to when my new ISP used "index.htm" instead of "home.htm" for the opening page - a lot of work when you have 300 pages).

I had to change my url 3 times.

1. My old ISP integrated several urls into a master url. They told us we would never have to change it again.

2. The master url created in change #1 contained the computer name "php" (for "personal home pages"). PHP later trademarked that name, and so my old ISP had to change the url again. I converted all of my code to relative addressing at this time.

3. I changed to a new ISP with a cheaper rate. But since they used the different entry page name, I had to change the homepage link in every page.

The url should be in single quotes when passed as a parameter. It is text at that point.

What do you mean you "have to" do it that way? You got a nut for a boss?

This is the kind of trashy trickery that favors the manufacturer at the user's expense if something goes wrong. It should be outlawed.

You could pass the url as a parameter.

<input type="button" id="quantity" name="ONE" onclick="javascript:menu1(url1.htm)" />
<input type="button" id="quantity" name="TWO" onclick="javascript:menu2(url2.htm)" />

Wouldn't it be easier to just have two versions of the page?

Thanks for the reply, appreciate it, I was wondering though if I could set this class to all my td's using the min-height and the max-hieght and the overflow auto? right now my page has 8 <div>s I thought i had to use so many div's for the layout. Thanks again, dave

You certainly can.

Instead of:

td#id

in the above style use:

.scrol

Then use this for the opening td or div tags, like this:

<td class="scrol">

Fake the links with form input buttons:

<input type="button" id="quantity" name="ONE" onclick="javascript:menu1()" /> 
<input type="button" id="quantity" name="TWO" onclick="javascript:menu2()" />

Then use the javascript to first open the window, then enable the proper devices:

function menu1(){
 theWindow = window.open('theurl.htm', 'theWin', '');
 theWin.focus();
 document.forms.order.quantity.disabled = false;
   .
   .
   .

It's gone for me too, when I logged in the next time after disabling rounded corners.

But this is weird. Now it shows up on the OTHER selection of the WYSIWYG button. Figger that out!

The simplest way is to use an anchor link. Each link can directly call a multimedia video player. Using an anchor link:

<a href="film123.mpg">Movie Number 123</a>

Use one such link for each video file.

But this opens the player by itself in a new window.

It's harder to open the player in a page full of ads.. You need to have some kind of selector to select the proper flash file. It's going to be a dropdown menu, (html select tag), radio buttons (input tag), or some other input device on the html page.

Then you need either an onclick JavaScript function call or a PLAY button telling the JavaScript function to start the video. The selector will provide the url of the flash file in a variable.

The html object tag is used to embed the player in the page.

Use the disabled attribute.

Start with the basic html portion of a form (named "order"):

<input type="text" id="quantity" disabled="disabled" />

Then, in JavaScript, you change the attribute to enable the field:

document.forms.order.quantity.disabled = false;

Let me get this straight. You want us to HELP you put MORE advertising on the web?
:angry:

If this is not the case, then don't use a pop-up format, or it will be blocked.

Is the user supposed to select a flash file? If so, use a dropdown menu or other selection method, and pass the URL to your JavaScript program.

It also makes the Firefox spellchecker work or not work.

It's a script that runs when a certain ad is on the screen. This has been going on about a week.

That does you no good at all if the website has a 56K modem.

The text at the bottom is too small for easy reading, and is hidden below the screen edge.

Click the tilted A button on the right. It turns the spellchecker on and off for me. It's on when the button is white.

Could it be browser-dependent?

I wonder how many of those attempts were for spam purposes.

Sounds like spyware.

But it could also be tax-time loads on the cable modem system's head end.

The gray margins are just margin syles applied to the body tag. The darker gray is the border attribute.

You don't need a gif file. I have done it with style sheets, with foreground and background colors the same and a line of alternating . with <br /> .

Put this inside its own div.

If you are creating fake email addresses to send spam, you SHOULD be shut down, as should all people who do this. Such people belong in jail.

It also makes a difference in how many users can download the page before your download limit is exceeded.

The system doesn't evaluate the quote to see whether it was changed from a previous post. It simply discounts everything within quote tags from being a part of the one character minimum.

So, if you just type something up here, it doesn't work.

In other words, you have to type something down here for it to work, not up there.

The need for the center tag is the space saved, compared to adding all of that style code for each centered object. When the ISP charges you by the megabyte of storage space, believe me, it matters.

It's possible you are set for a character-coding setting that sends character codes the site does not understand.

If it keeps coming back after the scans show it is gone, a web page you are using is putting it back.

This sounds like the baddie program altered the registry to run itself.

There might be other solutions, but a reinstall of Windows should fix it.

The problem is that the deprecators in W3C took away the center tag, and left us with nothing easy to replace it with in CSS. They are thinking in terms of newspaper-style publishing, where the text is important, and the image is an obstruction the text must wrap around.

There is a way to do it. You have to be sneaky.

In the style section or style sheet:

.cenimg {text-align: center;
         margin-top: 0px;
         margin-bottom: 0px;
         padding: 0px;}
.centim {clear: both;}

At the point where the image belongs:

<div class="cenimg">
<img src="picture.jpg" alt="a picture" class="centim" />
</div>

The sneaky trick is that the div doesn't know (or care) whether its contents are text or image. It centers everything. The clear is needed to keep the image from seeking the left or right edge, and the rest is there to keep the div from otherwise messing things up.

You can also put a p block above or below the image with a caption.

Not when you have superiors or clients demanding the "latest code".

And how long do you expect W3C to allow HTML to remain on the Internet? We are being forced to change to HDTV in two years. What makes you think that this will be any different?

Quick time got too greedy again. It grabbed a file type it can't play. I won't even let it on my system because it is so grabby.

Open Quick Time and set it so it does not make itself the default player.

Go into Windows Explorer and select Tools/Folder Options/File Types.

Then scroll down through the file types, looking for the types the Quick Time icon is on. Reset them to the players you want to play them.

You may have to do this again the next time Quick Time upgrades itself.

It's possible you broke a trace on the circuit board.

My number one thought is security settings.

The site is probably trying to do something that violates your settings for the level of trust the browser finds.

Your son may have weakened his security settings to be able to get into a site.

It could also be that the site wants something (such as Java) which you have shut off.

The problem is that you can't have other container tags inside anchor (a) tags. Put the divs outside the anchors.

<div class="stuff">
<a href="pootwattle.htm">Feitlebaum's wins</a>
</div>

Actually, this is a place where tables work better than divs.

The correct form of the br tag is:

<br />

Note the space before the /. This makes the tag work (actually fail invisibly) on older browsers.

Single tags without closing tags or closing slashes are deprecated (a fancy word meaning they plan to discontinue it shortly).

So we either have to have tags in pairs:

<li>This is a list element.</li>

Or we have to show that the tag has no closing tag with a slash before the closing angle broket.

<hr />
<img src="toon.jpg alt="cartoon of clown with stuffed helicopter" />

I think they did this so they could write code checking software which is not ambiguous.

Why not just put an anchor tagged link on the page. If I want the extra page, I will click it. I don't need bamboozlers popping up to attract me to the link.

If I turn the popup blocker on, it's because I don't want popups.