Though it does increase traffic and the pageviews, it doesn’t feel quite good with someone who’s loading your website or page as a part of theirs in the form of a <frame> or <iframe>, leeching your content as part of theirs. To prevent them from loading your pages this way, and make the visitor browser …
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The common HTML form input controls of checkbox (<input type=”checkbox“>) and radio (<input type=”radio“>) can be tricky to be aligned correctly in the same line with the text or image across all modern browsers. Without any CSS styling, they usually place themselves 3 or more pixels above or below the normal text flow which look …
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No matter how fairy or pretty your design / template is, never use overflow:hidden for content containers. Content comes a thousand times more important than any design or layout. I don’t care how much you hold proud your artistic work and how you think accommodating the content in any way possible would ruin the holy …
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With display:block elements we can freely set the hard width of them. However for inline elements, width:200px simply won’t work at all. One approach is to float the element which usually causes other problems and isn’t handy at all. So how to set width to inline elements without floating them in CSS? The answer is …
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In CSS3, border-radius is the rule you would use to achieve curved corner borderlines, but for now, IE and Opera doesn’t support this trick. With a little script help in the form of a .htc, you can make a cross browser compatible rounded corner box such as a <div> or an <img>. -moz-border-radius: 9px; -webkit-border-radius: …
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At Linux command line, to find a particular text string in all the files from the current directory recursively (that is, including all those files from the child or grandchild directories), use something like this via SSH: find . -exec grep -l "needle" {} \; This command searches through all directories from the current directory …
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HTML 5 comes with a bunch of new tags that IE6 cries that it doesn’t know them, thus refusing to style them according to the CSS. To baby-sit this stupid browser one last time, adding these JavaScript lines in the <head> of your web page that utilizes HTML 5 tags: <script> document.createElement(‘header’); document.createElement(‘nav’); document.createElement(‘section’); document.createElement(‘article’); …
Firefox 3.5 has been released with full support for the current stage of HTML 5. Although the rest of the browsers haven’t explicitly adopted the new tags and new features of HTML 5 yet, you can safely use HTML 5 tags in your web page and style them in CSS just as if they are …
There are in total nearly a hundred HTML tags with good ones as well as bad ones in terms of XHTML. In the creation of a template or theme, after designing for the overall layout, artistic feel as well as the entire set of visual elements, the designer will be preparing the ready-to-use styles needed …
There are at the same time a <cite> tag and a cite attribute in HTML. How does one correctly use them? <q> is for inline quotations, such as when you need to quote a few words, half a sentence or a phrase from someone. <blockquote> is for large chunks of text quotations, usually displayed as …
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Ideally the initial session id will remain the same throughout a session unless the developer has explicitly asked PHP to change it by the session_regenerate_id() function or the session_id() function. However, there’s a slight chance that you may encounter this problem of automatic changing session ID upon every new request when you are developing things …
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As a quick digest of this article by Jonathan. You can literally rotate any HTML element by a certain degree with CSS, be it text or image or something else. After testing across a few modern browsers, the only one that’s not supporting this rotation technique is Opera. The CSS rules you need for a …
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It’s strange that you can accomplish this in IE while you can’t make it happen in Firefox. Well, that’s because the development team has decided that it’s potentially annoying and harmful for web developers to change the text of Firefox status bar whatever way they want. So the simple answer is, you can’t. But there’s …
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You can send emails very easily with PHP by the help of mail() function, but how does one send attachment attached to that email? You’ll still use mail() function, but with a little more twists in the header argument — yes, the content of the attached file is actually encoded into the header of the …
Microsoft and Yahoo is colorful in colors but Google is colorful in the imagination. Google uses much less colors than Microsoft and Yahoo do. Yet somehow, Google comes out as the versatile one. Google uses much more traditional colors than Microsoft and Yahoo do and rarely change in the style, yet it comes out as …
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Web pages are made up of HTML code, so if you post or write some HTML code in a web pages, a browser would generally consider them normal code. Instead of showing them as they are literally, they have become part of the underlying HTML structure of that page. Now how to address this problem …
Blinking texts are so 1999. Please by all means if you are still looking for the way to make text blink in HTML web pages, stop. Otherwise, you may want to try these 2 outdated methods that only work partially across modern browsers, but not in IE: The <blink> tag <blink>I’m blinking!/<blink> The blink text-decoration …
This way is so simple that anyone who’s a beginner in PHP can use it immediately to obfuscate and hide the original PHP code. Generally, it’d make it much harder for someone to find a specific phrase in your code as it’s encrypted, though in a rather simple way using 4 PHP functions: gzinflate(), gzdeflate(), …
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We all know what a new line is represented in c and in PHP as: "\n" And a carriage return: "\r" In a SQL / MySQL query, when you want to add new lines or line feeds into the strings, you will need the CHAR() function of MySQL which accepts an ASCII character code as …
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wget is such a wonderful command in Linux you can ever get. Consider blessed to have it in your SSH arsenal. Now, not only does it allow you to download something neatly from the command line to the current working directory — that’s why WordPress always puts the latest version of the blog script at …
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