n anchor tag with text in it to
> remove the underline.
Because it is a border not an underline, and it is drawn around the
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There's no selector in CSS to select an element based on its descendants
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> tee wrote:
>> I remember I asked this before, still I am unable to figure out how to
>> fix it.
>
> I spent ages reading and rereading this until I spotted the error
> message hiding away in the subject line :)
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR
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William Simpson wrote:
Yup,
/clear: both/ is the critical rule that allow the footer to clear both
floating divs above it.
#sidebar {
position: absolute;
left: 51em;
padding: 115px 0.4em 2em 2.5em;
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... is not floating.
Unless you can predict the height of absolutely
pa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=217502
>
> Just an example. A quick search to find.
A quick search can also find out how to use blink tags and tables for
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Even if you did, document.images.imageId works fine (at least in the
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Yes.
> Like XML?
Nothing like XML.
> So, all in all, HTML developers will move more into what the
> "purpose" of XHTML is, correct?
No.
> And it would have to unify the schism if
> it is to include all of the above stated, is that no
it was supposed to unify the schism between HTML and XHTML.
It certainly doesn't do that.
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external stylesheet is conceptually inelegant (and very slightly off
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> Never had a problem with character encodings on web pages, but since I
> reinstalled the OS on my iMac I have had an issue.
Your server says:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
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Entirely pointless - the label for buttons is content of the button
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Darren Lovelock wrote:
> Why not use the tag
Because most addresses on webpages do not provide contact details for
the author.
> and a definition list?
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have a list marker. Additionally, CSS provides no way to select an
element based on its children, so you can't match the list item based on
the hover state of a link inside it.
You could match li:hover, but that won't wo
Brett Patterson wrote:
> Why would you avoid w3schools? They do have some good information. So why?
They have a lot of bad information - and spotting the difference is hard
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HTML to get & in the DOM, so when it requests the URL from the
webserver, it requests &.
It sounds like & is being requested. So the fault is in the tool
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the for attribute, so I would avoid it.
It is just worth pointing out that it isn't wrong to put the input
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Not so:
"When [the for attribute is] absent, the label being defined is
associated with the element's contents."
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First Name
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Overcomplicated and less accessible then simply making them display:
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> In my experience, "position: fixed" seems not work with IE.
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It is supported by IE7.
As a concept, however, it is pretty much incompatible with horizontal
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Dragging the scrollbar up to the top of the page is not really that much
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content isn't easy).
> Would be nice if we can have 'back to top' for email.
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Robin Shi wrote:
> How about the tabs with JS? It visually breaks the page into small parts and
> switch by tabs.
>
So - the visitor comes, they read to the bottom, then they have to
scroll to the top and activate the next tab (and repeat). I'm not too
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robuster then most homebrew things because it has more eyes spotting
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> Any good arguments of Why it is still OK to use JQuery?
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> future...like other google products this is going to be the popular one.
It's Webkit, so rendering issues should be insignificant. Any
differences will likely only come out if you're doing complicated
JavaScript.
tee wrote:
> I really like to see that it magically repairs IE6 broken web, so that
> we can forever moving forward and it helps save IE team from
> implementing compatibility view in IE8. Hack!, they might just start
> thinking why do we wasting our time on IE8. Rumor has circling in
> Technorati,
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David Dorward wrote:
When will the W3C validator support ARIA?
As I said "Now".
Using your provided DTD, a simple test file results in:
1. Error Line 2, Column 76: could not get "/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-
aria-1.dtd" from
On 11 Aug 2008, at 15:47, David Dorward wrote:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ says:
"http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-aria-1.dtd
">
... except that http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-aria-1.dtd is a 404
error.
This is one of
On 11 Aug 2008, at 15:14, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
David Dorward wrote:
It doesn't really reject it, it just warns you that the combination
doesn't make much sense.
Sigh. Semantics. That was one suggested DOCTYPE that I found -- and
no, I'm not sure at this point where --
On 10 Aug 2008, at 23:49, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
David Dorward wrote:
(Obviously you have to validate against a DTD that includes ARIA
features)
Right, and the only thing I could find relating to this was:
This is a public identifier that I've never heard of ...
"htt
updated in the local catalogue since that
change
(Obviously you have to validate against a DTD that includes ARIA
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"x" isn't a unit.
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On 3 Jul 2008, at 17:01, Fuji kusaka wrote:
I have a flash animation in my webpage and this causes a big problem
when i have to validate the page.
Can someone help me out?
http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-flash
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On 3 Jul 2008, at 13:41, James Jeffery wrote:
Are all browsers now using zooming to resize pages?
The latest version of each of the big four do by default. Happily, it
can be turned off in at least some of them.
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mail as well.
You don't need to get it all. You need to get enough that the
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On 4 Jun 2008, at 17:38, Andrew famiano wrote:
the problem is the alignment. how do you align the image centered
with the text?
img { vertical-align: whatever; }
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-vertical-align
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On 4 Jun 2008, at 15:23, Andrew famiano wrote:
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non, congue, arcu.
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On 30 May 2008, at 15:50, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
I'd say when it comes to "news" the source is very important, so
imho the
publisher is key.
Important? Yes.
More important then the title? No.
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lynx (a free text-only browser) will probably help you a lot more
for deciding how and where to use alt text ...
This is a good approach.
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The DTD allows fieldset pretty much anywhere a block level element is
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thus a fieldset needs to be allowed inside them in order to go inside
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</tt><tt>'form');
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YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(elements, "submit", deleteFiles);
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Please could someone help me decide which is the most appropriate
tag to use with quotes? These are actual comments made by folk
during a show.
You are quoting paragraphs, use blockquote.
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when the example was originally created.
A reaction to the number of people using XHTML syntax in HTML without
understanding the implications.
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Depending on error recovery features (or bugs) in browsers simply
isn't wis
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Using the tabindex attribute on form elements should allow you to
specify the tab order.
This shouldn't help, and is likely to add confusion if there is
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not be using Javascipt?
Yes.
The example that i quickly looked over is:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/menu/topnavfromjswithanim.html
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/menu/topnavfrommarkupwithanim.html
is the same menu built from markup instead of JS.
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On 24 Apr 2008, at 13:36, Ted Drake wrote:
Ah, where's your sense of adventure?
Buried under a desire not to see people rewarded for lowering the
quality of the WWW :)
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in-outside-ieness of "Have your visitors easily bookmark your site
into their browser favorites" ... I would avoid this. It might be
cheap, but any reward for producing something of that quality would be
too much.
On 17 Apr 2008, at 14:09, Cole Kuryakin wrote:
This is something that I’ve been wondering about for a long time – a
shorthand rule for borders.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#border-shorthand-properties
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Sticking to a single window is usually a better idea. http://
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is now depreciated.
Set up a macro in your text editor to do it.
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and how does the browser determine what to use if there is a conflict
The same was it does when it gets conflicting rules within a single
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Comments:
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now 35
The for attribute of a label refers to the id attribute of a form
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So web2.0 is the mixture of scripts, tools.. etc..
It is a vague and poorly defined buzzword that is of no use in a
technical discussion. In a non-technical discussion, it means pretty
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