Re: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-30 Thread Ted Roche
I think anyone who can sort out that: Customer.Lastname was a field in a cursor Form.Height was a property of an object oWord.Print is calling a method on a COM Object ought to be grateful for a little variation to provide clues. There's also containership, hierarchy, specificity and order of pr

Re: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-29 Thread AndyHC
On 29-Mar-2016 7:25 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: You need this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUQhYDz-Y - but my mental projection of my digital self would probably be in S360 macro assembler (no Intellisense Ted, but you got a Green Card ). btw sorry about the links to K&R - that's

Re: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-29 Thread Stephen Russell
You need this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUQhYDz-Ys On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:52 AM, AndyHC wrote: > On 29-Mar-2016 6:51 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > >> Try this site. >> >> http://www.littlewebhut.com/css/css_syntax/ >> >> They might even have videos I believe. >> >> >> Videos?

Re: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-29 Thread AndyHC
On 29-Mar-2016 6:51 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: Try this site. http://www.littlewebhut.com/css/css_syntax/ They might even have videos I believe. Videos? Kernighan , Ritchie ,and Codd forfend! -

Re: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-29 Thread Stephen Russell
Try this site. http://www.littlewebhut.com/css/css_syntax/ They might even have videos I believe. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:11 AM, AndyHC wrote: > Hi, > for interest, I've been playing around with developing a web photo gallery. > From javascript (which I know a little bit, and am beginning to

Re: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-29 Thread Ted Roche
Well, it's like explaining to a newbie the phantom record, or why you can RECALL deleted records. It's a quirk of the nature of the beast. CSS is the worst possible solution to applying style to HTML, except all of the others, to also mis-paraphrase Sir Winston. CSS has a consistent set of rules,

Re: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-29 Thread AndyHC
Hi, looks like you're agreeing with me that the DOM is "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma..." - but as Churchill said: "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key." iow these are tools to crack a problem that shouldn't have been created

Re: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-29 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:11 AM, AndyHC wrote: > Hi, > don't) and (for more understanding) on to CSS Selector > Over the years I have come to accept the OO concept (with the mental > reservation that libraries of mutable functions were easier to understand > and probably much more efficient).

RE: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-29 Thread profox
Funny you should say that. I wanted to make a photo gallery that meant I could just make a directory and put photos in it and the single aspx did the work for me. Took some thinking about but I got there. Al Allen Pollard GSL Hi, for interest, I've been playing around with developing a web ph

Re: [NF] jquery: css-select:...

2016-03-29 Thread Fernando D. Bozzo
Hi Andy: Without Intellisense you surely can't remember all VFP form events and properties, but you know that you can do something and can look at the help for the proper syntax, even for commands. This is the same, you read it once or twice then you know that you can do something, so next time y