[WSG] javascript problem with pop-up on hyperlink click (IE6 displays an error, FF, Opera work fine)

2005-03-11 Thread Thorsten
hiya, i'm not sure if this is the right place to pose my question, but i'll dare it. if my question is unwanted on the list, i apologise, maybe someone can reply in private? i have a page from which i'd like to pop-up a window with more details upon clicking a hyperlink. the javascript i'm

Re: [WSG] javascript problem with pop-up on hyperlink click (IE6 displays an error, FF, Opera work fine)

2005-03-11 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:49:57 -, Thorsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a href=# onClick=javascript:window.open('therapeuten/barkow-lewinsky.html','Barkow-Lewinsky, Eva','width=450,height=200,left=150,top=150');Barkow-Lewinsky, Eva/a Never put URLs in onclick (javascript:blabla *is* URL) Don't

[WSG] problems with nodetype

2005-03-11 Thread Alan Trick
I was tying to use nodeType to make sure that a node was an element in my javascript, but it wasn't working. Then when I did alert(aNode.nodeType); I got undefined, I was really confused so I tried alert(document.nodeType); and I got undefined again! Is there a reason I'm getting undefined

RE: [WSG] centering floats?

2005-03-11 Thread Martin J. Lambert
Alan Trick wrote: Centering the containiner is meaningless though if it doesn't have a fixed width (that's smaller than it's container), and if it does have a fixed width, than it ruins the whole point of the thing, to allow the boxes to flow depending on the size of the container. David

Re: [WSG] problems with nodetype

2005-03-11 Thread Gez Lemon
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:23:40 -0500, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting undefined instead of DOCUMENT_NODE or 9? I used if(aNode.tagName){ ...} to achive the required result, but it's a hack and I want to know what's wrong with nodeType? I suspect it's because you've returned a

Re: [WSG] problems with nodetype

2005-03-11 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Mar 2005, at 12:23 AM, Alan Trick wrote: I was tying to use nodeType to make sure that a node was an element in my javascript, but it wasn't working. Then when I did alert(aNode.nodeType); I got undefined, I was really confused so I tried alert(document.nodeType); and I got undefined

Re: [WSG] problems with nodetype

2005-03-11 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:03:19 -, Nick Gleitzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me, or is this list turning into javascriptgroup.org? HTML and CSS aren't the only web standards. DOM and ECMAScript are too. -- regards, Kornel Lesiski **

Re: Re[2]: [WSG] javascript problem with pop-up on hyperlink click (IE6 displays an error, FF, Opera work fine)

2005-03-11 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:22:25 -, Chris Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never put URLs in onclick (javascript:blabla *is* URL) Forget that use this idea: A HREF=javascript:void(0); onClick=openWindowFunction(params) That is tweaked non-standard accessibility killer. It will break even if I

Re: [WSG] problems with nodetype

2005-03-11 Thread Ben Curtis
I was tying to use nodeType to make sure that a node was an element in my javascript, but it wasn't working. Then when I did alert(aNode.nodeType); I got undefined, I was really confused so I tried alert(document.nodeType); and I got undefined again! Is there a reason I'm getting undefined

Re: [WSG] javascript problem with pop-up on hyperlink click (IE6 displays an error, FF, Opera work fine)

2005-03-11 Thread Ben Curtis
and don't use inline scripts. They are as bad as inline styles: a href=therapeuten/barkow-lewinsky.html class=popupBarkow-Lewinsky, Eva/a var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for(i=0;ilinks.length;i++) if (links[i].className=='popup')links[i].onclick = function()

Re: [WSG] problems with nodetype

2005-03-11 Thread Alan Trick
I don't know what the problem was, but I copied Gez's code and it started working, O:-) . Possibly just a spelling error or a missing a ' or one = instead of two. Thanks, Alan Ben Curtis wrote: I was tying to use nodeType to make sure that a node was an element in my javascript, but it wasn't

[WSG] Quoting Code Snippets

2005-03-11 Thread diona kidd
I've been looking around on the web for a little bit and can't find the answer to my question. If it's rudimentary, please forgive me. How do I properly quote code (eg. Perl) in a webpage and have it display properly? The code element seems the most appropriate for the job but it does not

[WSG] Re: Quoting Code Snippets

2005-03-11 Thread diona kidd
Wouldn't you know it. As soon as I sent out that email, I found the answer. Behold, the pre tag Thanks, Diona ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

RE: [WSG] Quoting Code Snippets

2005-03-11 Thread Ted Drake
I have found the easiest approach is to cut and paste the code into the design view of Dreamweaver. This will translate all of the , and other symbols into the amp; style codes and your web page will display them correctly. Try wrapping the snippet in code/code tags. The most effective approach

Re: [WSG] Quoting Code Snippets

2005-03-11 Thread Gez Lemon
The code tag is the correct element to use to markup code snippets. You could add a rule to your CSS to make it preserve white space: code { white-space: pre; } The obvious problem is that it won't preserve the white space when CSS isn't available. An alternative is to place the code tags

Re: [WSG] Quoting Code Snippets

2005-03-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Ted Drake wrote: The most effective approach that I have seen so far is to put each line in an ordered list, and applying styles to make it more readable. I'm not sure if this would make it more usable. Depending on what you're showing the code for, line numbers may be almost essential, or at

Re: [WSG] Quoting Code Snippets

2005-03-11 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:24 PM 3/11/2005, Hassan Schroeder wrote: Depending on what you're showing the code for, line numbers may be almost essential, or at least very useful; here's a sample I did a while back for someone to use as a model for a tutorial: http://webtuitive.com/samples/code-as-list.html Of course,

Re: [WSG] Quoting Code Snippets

2005-03-11 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Paul Novitski wrote: Personally I would find your line-numbering technique more effective if the line numbers showed up by default (perhaps dimmed) [this would serve IE users as well], and then the current line and its number were highlighted on hover. Especially with indented code it's not