Without using any javascript, this is the simplest way to make css hover works on tr and td in tables across browsers including IE. IE is known for not implementing generic hover effect for HTML tags other than <a>, however by the help of a bit of spice, we can make it to happen on …
Does anybody know that it’s a perfect wave of how the month names would look like if aligned left vertically? December January February March April May June July August September November December January Creepy, huh! (wink wink) 😀
Dustin Diaz made an interesting discovery to trigger “standards mode” with just a tiny little declaration instead of the regular lengthy one we see everywhere. As opposed to “standard mode“, there’s this “quirks mode” in IE that accommodates legacy HTML code of no standards at all — rendering them in many different ways compared with …
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This tiny little tutorial is meant for SEO beginners. Just for instance, if you never heard of what a seed list is or how to do keyword research, you are one. Keyword seed list is a list of keywords you gather for further keyword research which may very well contain thousands of related keywords about …
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If you are using tables entirely for page layout, I just have 2 tips for you. The first one is that: Don’t rely on rowspan or colspan. Especially on pages with potential to get rather long or wide by the help of some elongated table cell with rowspan or colspan. Things might very possibly go …
<center></center> as well as the property align=”center” used to be the tag that centers everything inside. However, it’s not the right way to do the centering in HTML at all. Let me show you the correct way in CSS to center something on the page. Let’s say you have a page wrapper that wraps a …
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As we all know that with a style rule of width or height, an element gains hasLayout in Internet Explorer and it triggers the IE proprietary rendering algorithm. Though this trick solves many weird problems in IE, especially IE6, it does come with a few issues as well. For example, when you need a top …
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As I’m a mainlander Chinese, I can only speak for those computers and browsers who live in central P.R.China. If you are making a design for or in Mandarin Chinese, especially Simplified Chinese, beside those common English web safe fonts such as Arial and Verdana shipped in MS Windows by default that 95% mainlander Chinese …
You can see dynamic URLs everywhere on the web with busy interactive sites. Variables and their values are passed from one page to another in this way. Or more precisely, a page served in PHP (a single file php script) can accept external input in the form of a dynamic URL such as http://www.asite.com/[email protected]&subject=hi&body=bye. In …
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One of the main reasons that you might need this is that Microsoft Excel and Word documents pervade. They are perfect media to store, display and distribute information and ideas. A rather straightforward approach is to simply link that document up. <a href=”bank/sheet.xls” >some excel file</a> Another approach is via JavaScript. <script type=”text/javascript”> function openExcel(strFilePath) …
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Update: Here is a more advanced use of INSERT INTO … SELECT … to combine multiple tables into one. While CREATE TABLE … SELECT … mix and mingle records by column from other tables into a table that’s created on the fly, INSERT INTO … SELECT … insert those generated or combined records into an …
CREATE TABLE … SELECT comes rather useful when you need to generate reports from existing tables or do a mixture. The title just shows the basic usage of it, for instance, to create a new table xxx from 2 columns in yyy, namely col1, col2. After executing SQL: CREATE TABLE xxx SELECT col1, col2 FROM …
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As a result of the spreading SEO awareness and how Google works, it is always recommended to use as less dynamic URLs as possible for your site. If one must, try using as less variables in the dynamic URL as possible. A dynamic URL is one with a question mark that passes dynamic variables to …
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<iframe></iframe> is useful in many aspects. There are times when you want to refresh the content of an iframe and reload the page in it, without refreshing that of the main page, and it can be achieved with a tiny property of iframe, src. Let’s say you have an iframe of captcha that enables the …
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File uploading is a rather common feature of interactive sites. As all servers come with a limit on the size of the file being uploaded, it would be a usability blessing for users if web developers can implement a logic to check for the file size before uploading, informing the user if the size of …
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Windows active desktop is a feature that allows you to embed a browser window (viewport) on your actual desktop. Instead of a window form, it’s accessible anytime on the desktop yet never takes up any task bar spaces. Windows XP users can activate active desktop following these procedures. Basically you just right click on the …
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This is just that easy to do as picking up a dollar on the ground. You can, of course write your own function to parse a string that looks like a URL and return various parts such as the domain, directory, requested file and possible data fields. However, PHP has come with exactly the function …
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As opposed to best practices, we may as well take this as a collection of worst practices of PHP programming. I have been a PHP coder for 1 and a half years. Not an expert myself, but I learn as much as I can and try to code to the highest standard possible. Below are …
It’s easy to make a simple scraper script in PHP but it’s also easy for data-centric sites to detect and keep out suspiciously continued page accesses done in large amounts and a small period of time. There are usually 2 ways for a site to detect possible scraping activities. One is to make sure the …
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CSS style property z-index determines the stack order of an element overlapping with others. There might be times when you find it not working for you and element with a bigger z-index falls behind one who has a smaller one. Frustrating but why? First, make sure the elements who has z-index property also has position:relative …
