The Developers Dilemma usually takes two forms:
If Only I could XOr, How Do I X
Usually followed by a flurry of Google Searches and, depending on the platform/language you are programming in, either success or failure.
Often though, if the solution requires downloading...
This tutorial will show how to use jQuery append. It will also show how to append after and append before. Append actually means to add after. But this will show you how to use jQuery to insert content with these four functions.
BeforeAfterInside.prepend().append()Outside.before().after()
.before() - Inserts content outside and before.
.prepend() - Inserts...
Famous WSH heard? He is the short form of the Windows Script Host, WSH is a Windows platform scripting command, his function is very powerful, and he was using the grammatical structure is simple, easy to use and powerful JScript and...
There is a function called ispostback in asp.net. However there isn’t one in PHP. You use do it to check if a page is a postback. The snippet of code below will create a PHP ispostback function.
// Determine whether the page...
There are several CSS generators out there. Many do the same things. Soo… To keep you from sorting through several different generators, here are my favorites to save some time. Some browsers have different quirks, prefixes, etc., but these generators should...
Have you ever made an HTML email with images in it and it looked good in most email clients, but not gmail or possibly hotmail?
You’ve made sure to build your HTML email using tables instead of divs, used colspans, specified heights and widths. But…the images still separate in gmail.
GMail adds...
Javascript window location object properties contain information about the current URL. For example” location.pathname” returns “/subdirectory/search.”
Example URL: http://www.domain.com/subdirectory/search?filter=a#somewhere
Javascript Window Location Object Properties
PropertyDescriptionReturnshashReturns the anchor portion of a URL#somewherehostReturns the hostname and port of a URLwww.domain.com (will include port if one exists)hostnameReturns the...
Do you have an application that starts misbehaving randomly? You aren't quite sure what is going on, but it seems like for some reason your Timer just stops firing it's event handler--and once it stops it never starts back up.
This drove...
These control naming conventions may help provide some organization. Visual Studio sets Name properties to defaults for controls, like Label2. Using these conventions it would be something like lblName.
ASP.NET...
Have you ever made an HTML email with images in it and it looked good in most email clients, but not gmail or possibly hotmail?
You’ve made sure to build your...
jQuery $(document).ready() is a basic part of using jQuery. The jQuery document ready function executes when the DOM (Document Object Model) is completely loaded...
CSS Center - This short tutorial and snippet will show how to center with CSS
CSS Center HTML
<body>
<div class="centerMe">
<!-- Put centered content...
In general, this means evaluating the design for performance, maintainability, extensibility, scalability, availability, recovery, data integrity, and use-case correctness.
Performance Evaluation
Typically, designing a Web application...
These control naming conventions may help provide some organization. Visual Studio sets Name properties to defaults for controls, like Label2. Using these conventions it would be something like lblName.
ASP.NET Control Naming Conventions
ASP.NET Control Naming Conventions are prefixed to...
The vertical menu knows how far to animate by getting the width of the div it’s located within.
View Demo
The snippet of code below is the html for our vertical menu. Take note of the span...
Have you ever made an HTML email with images in it and it looked good in most email clients, but not gmail or possibly hotmail?
You’ve made sure to build your HTML email using tables instead of divs, used colspans, specified heights and widths....
There are several tutorials on how to make a CSS sticky footers sticky header, or sticky sidebar. This is one.
Remember to compensate at the bottom of your page so the CSS sticky footer doesn’t cover any content....
Here are the doctype declarations for you. Short and sweet
HTML Doctypes:
HTML 5 Doctype
<!DOCTYPE html>
HTML 4.01 Strict Doctype
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
XHTML Doctypes:
XHTML 1.1 Doctype
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
XHTML 1.0 Transitional Doctype
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC...
There are several CSS generators out there. Many do the same things. Soo… To keep you from sorting through several different generators, here are my favorites to save some time. Some browsers have different quirks,...
This post is for beginners. It shows how to make a basic jquery UI accordion. We will use a predefined jquery ui for the accordion. There is a link to the demo right before the entire code snippet.
HTML...
As far as I know, this is better for SEO when hiding an element with CSS. I believe it is better than display: none; and/or visibility: hidden;
#thingamabob {
position: absolute;
...
Here we examine why you would use a protocol relative URL. Have you ever had this error in ie - “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items?” A protocol relative URL may also be called...
There are several tutorials on how to make a CSS sticky footers sticky header, or sticky sidebar. This is one.
Remember to compensate at the bottom of...
CSS wildcard or CSS Regular expression? - You may be looking for CSS Attribute Selector.
CSS Attribute Selector - Here’s the scenario: You want to add styling to all...
