Skemcin
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the biggest difference you will see are of two types:a.) stand alone tags now end with forward slash before the ending carroti.e. <br> is now <br />, <img src="xxx.jpg"> is now <img src="xxx.jpg" />b.) stand alone attributes are fully definedi.e <td nowrap> is now <td nowrap="nowrap">, <option value="xxx" selected> is now <option value="xxx" selected="selected">other things too, but those are the most visible (day to day) changes.
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if I am understanding you correctly, you will need to use the "onchange" attribute in your <select> tag that will submit the form. Your action page would identify this, run the SQL, and return you back to the page.If you google "javascript onchange form submit" - that should help.i.e.http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-1...javascript.html
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here is a step closer:I just moved your <IMG> tage after the <P> tag and got it to wrap they way you want. This looks good in IE, but the first image is still thrown off in the other browsers. I tried a few more things and could only really get it to work by using absolute positioning - I might give it another try tomorrow if I can find some time.
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well, you'll find that there are so many different ways to code a page - so once you become familiar with HTML and CSS you will developer your preferences as everyone else here have.Having said that, and recognizing that you are admittedly new to this, there are two ways to approach this - old school or new school. The old school method would have you build the entire site using tables. The new school would push having it all coded in CSS. IMO, this layout would be just as easy either way - but would be faster using both (but that's coming from my experiences).Anyhow, if you are going to use a scripting language (cold fusion, php, asp) then your page should look something like this:
This is a "template". I typically start with code the entire page in one file. Then, once I am done, I cut each peice/section of code out and save them into seperate files - then "including" them onto any given page. So with this as my template, I open it, Save As, and I am on my way.Obviously the "include" statements would be substituted for what language you use accordingly. And as I mentioned, if your site will be hosted on a server packages that has any of the three scripting languages, then you would be foolish not to create you template similar to this.So, old school or new? Many folks might chime in to suggest that one is easier than the other - and I can only say that CSS design is a little hard to tweak than HTML tables (but that might start a rant):)Let me know if this helps.<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Untitled Document</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><cfinclude template="includes/scripts.cfm" /></head><body><cfinclude template="includes/header.cfm" /><cfinclude template="includes/navigation.cfm" /><!--- begin page content below this comment ---><!--- end page content above this comment ---><cfinclude template="includes/footer.cfm" /></body></html> -
your're welcome. good luck!
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<tr> = Table RowBy itself, it does nothing. It requires the use of the <table> and <td> tags. Think of HTML tables like a spreadsheet - the <tr> just tells you that you are on a particular row. Without the <table> you won't know which spreadsheet you're working on. Without the <td> you won't know what column you are in.W3Schools has a great introduction to tables here:http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.aspRead through that and let me know if you have any other questions.
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I'm not sure exactly what you are intending to do, but if you want to code a web page, then HTML and CSS together will get you started. The tutorials offered here are a great start.If you are intending to code a page to eventual host - figure out where you will host it. IF that server happens to offer ASP or PHP for free - then I would take the respective tutorials to learn a little more about some basic ways to safe time - specifically writing "include" files.A good template, will have minimal "design" code and mostly "application" or "content" code. To understand what I mean about this point, just visit:http://www.csszengarden.comHope this helped.
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If you use the align=left and you get the first line of code bumped down - that will be because that first line (like the rest) start with a <p> tag. I know there might be many people flaming this approach, but I NEVER use <p> tags - in the 11 years I've been coding, I've just gotten tired of the inconsistant interpretations each browser brings to the table. If you removed all the <p> tags and replaced the </p> tags with two <br /> tags, you might find that you will have better control and more consistant displays across browsers - but I understand you preference, this is just the way I've come to prefer coding it.The images still get pushed down (at least in FireFox, I usually don't test in anything else until that one works). Also, I'd really prefer to keep all formatting out of the HTML file and in the CSS file. So, I'm out of ideas if you want to be sure you keep it in the CSS, everything I quickly tried doesn't seem to like to ignore the "navigationlinkscontainer" class.Sorry.
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sure.The attribute is most commonly used in the <body> tag. Lets same that one of your Frame 2 pages is always supposed to have a particular page loaded in Frame 1 - then you would use something like this in the Frame 2 page:<body onLoad="frames[1].location.href= 'http://www.whatever.com.au'">If that code is in Frame 2 then you'll be able to the other page in Frame 1. There are a couple other ways you could manipulate the onload function if you are using cold fusion, php, or asp - even javascript - but that shoudl get you started.Let me know how it goes.can you tell me more about this onload attribute? -
will the page in frame 1 always load a certain page in frame two or visa versa?Is one page always going to be associated with the other?If so,Frame 1 could use the onload function in the body tag to load frame two. If frame 2 always has a certain page related to it loaded in Fram 1, then put the onload in frame 2If none of these is the case, then you will have to pass the second frame target in a URL parameter and have the onload function be dynamically generated (via, javascript, php, asp, or cold fusion).hope this helps
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why not just add the align=left attribute in the image tag?then, just to be safe, make sure all your "Artic;e" div's end with a <br clear="all" />
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1.) you are not able to nest form tags - one form is one form. However, if you are creative in your form construction, you could still post everything to one action page. The action page would only use certain fields based on which button was clicked.If you have an online example it would help understand what exactly you are trying to acheive - but there is really never a reason that you will need to nest form tags - any interior functions can be conditionally performed on the action page. You might have to program some client-sde scripting to toggle required fields, but one form will always provide all the functions you will need.2.) yes, as stated <iframes> will be the way to go - just understand that it counts as a whole new browser session and you might have issues posting or calling to and from the parent page.3.) to my knowledge, there is no way to render a whole page as the background or a table cell. But, anything is possible. You could code something on the server-side while the page is being processed to get the URL you want rendered and have your cold fusion, asp, or php code create an image out of it - then call that as a background image - that might not be too far fetched.Good Luck.
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hmm haven't done this in a PDF - good luck.Skemcin, greetings,Right now I am looking at Adobe pdf version 7 and its form maker. But more than likely I am going to have to learn something but that is just the way life is at times.Richard
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sweet - btw the way, I have a blast at http://www.chicagoindoorracing.com.the only thing I would suggest, is to wrap your images in an HREF tag and move your ONCLICK attribute out from the image and into the HREF. Right now, there is no way to know that the helmet images are links - now little hand appears.of course, you could add this.cursor='hand' in a onmouseover attribute and compliment that with the opposite on the onmouseout attribute - but teh HREF seems a little easier to me.
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Well, you could do it with HTML and XML (using XSL is optional) - without using php, asp, or cold fusion. And, if you put the XML in the proper RSS Format - (i.e. version 2.0) then you would kncok out two birds with one stone.Here is a jump into the section fn the W3schools on XML that shows you how to pull XML into an HTML page:http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_applications.aspGood Luck.
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this has something to do with determining packet size - so it is used (I think) to figure out how to handle long characters . . .hopefully someone can expand on this - thats all I can offer.
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Thanks for the reply. Looks like I'll stick with the three query technique, thanks again.
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Hi,I hear you 100%. I've been there before so I can relate to your situation. I was kinda being sarcastic about the "fun" in the matter - sorry to not have been able to articulate that. It seems to be very challenging task.I'm a little bit of an odd ball here, since I am a proponant of Cold Fusion over ASP and PHP. Normally, that would mean I would offer you a quick solution there - CF is easier to learn IMO. In any respect, since you mention cookies could be turned of for some of your visitors, then that leaves out client side data retention. So if you need to stay in HTML only, I am out of ideas - oh but there is flash - lol - I know another thing to learn.Sorry I haven't been able to help you further - I do hope you find a solution. Let me know if there is any other insight I might be able to provide.Skemcin, greetings,I fully realize that to you this sounds like fun and that one is unduly complicating things--but when you must start at ground zero--It is not quite the same.I do have a problem though with this particular approach--not everyone has cookies enabled. If I could find away around that then I am left with the same problem--learning a program in order to use it.If I am going to do that I can only choose one. Thanks though for your interestRichard
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Hi and thanks for the insight on the issue. I had considered that method but will no doubt run into an issue when the record ids (primary keys) are not in numeric order.If I have A,B,C,D and their ids are 12,13,14,15 - respectively, then when I delete C(14) from the ground, then I will have a problem whenever I load record 13.lol - the lucky number - that was such a coincidence that I picked those numbers - lol.What I have done is write three queries:SELECT myfieldsFROM mytableWHERE id = 13SELECT TOP 1 myfieldsFROM mytableWHERE id > 13SELECT TOP 1 myfieldsFROM mytableWHERE id < 13I was just hoping to find one command to do all that without creating a stored procedure since I am using MySQL.
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Hi, and welcome to the boards. There are a couple options.a.) opening a new window and then resize it when it opens (yuck)b.) use the following java script:<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"><!-- //////////////////////// popup window ////////////////////////var features="status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,menubar=yes,width=650,height=445,top=25,left=25"; function Info(x){ //window.name = "HelpWindow"; var openit = window.open(x, "HelpWindow", features);}--></script><a href="java script: void(); onclick="java script: Info('pagename.htm');">text/image</a><br>You can change the properties of the popup/new window in the "features" variable.Good Luck.
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While you having fun complicating things, you could use javascript to have each field onblur write a cookie which could be read and populated back into the field whenever the page is loaded. You would then have control over how long that information was made available. Of course, this would require that people have javascript and cookies enabled.Complicate it even more by having one cookie store the data in an XML format . . . This sounds fun!!!:-)
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I recently started a new job with a great organization but have found that a couple of their web forms are pretty vulnerable. I'd like to do a presentation to my group/team to make sure they know what the best practices are to follow for online web forms.I'm hoping someone can refer me to a couple of online resources that (in a more higher overview) explain general best practices for web form development - ideally explaining client side and server side things to program.For instance, client-side things be even include something like "don't require a field if its not required in the database its being inserted into". A server side example might be "don't trust the data that is being submitted in your form, check a price of a product against its value in the DB to make sure the form is not an offline hack".Thanks in advance.
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Have you considered Cold Fusion? It should be included in your consideration. The only reason why you would really need to exclude the application is if you/they were to host it internally - then its no doubt a cost issue. If the site is going start and most-likely stay in a hosted environment - then Cold Fusion is just as affordable as PHP and ASP - free to download and develop in and its tag based structure makes it easy to pick up.Just my $.02.
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I feel your pain. It has been my experience that the browser world is just not ready (IMHO) to commit fully to one or the other. I have learned the art of a fine balance between using CSS and tables together. One revelation I came to years ago was to never use the <p> tag and always use a <br> when ever you are done with a line of content.For instance:<table><tr><td>Content/Image Here<br></td></tr></table>Even though most browsers don't need it - a few will for different types of scenarios.There is no reason that tables and CSS can't co-exist without being standard compliant and being an acceptable practice.(Please treat this post as someone sounding off in frustration!)Finally bit the bullet this week, and allocated time out to dumping tables for good and moving everything to CSS - but what a frustration trying to make everything work in IE and Firefox.Suggestion: if you want to persuade people like me to dump tables, then at least make the effort to ensure your tutorial examples look the same across different browsers. Having some horrible alignment issues at the moment between browsers. With a view to looking at a few examples, I see that the following aligns differently in different browsers.eghttp://www.w3schools.com/myfirst/css07.aspBeginning to wonder whether the benefits are worth me dedicating an extra week of my life to this.There, I feel better already!
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