March 30, 2006

Rate ElderCare Services here!

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Posted by ellen at 11:52 PM

March 7, 2006

Perception quizzes don't export to Qpack

If you get errors when you try to export a Questionmark Perception quiz to Qpack, check to see if the template contains any images with %SYSTEM% in their paths.

I had put some global button images into the system graphics folder because it seemed to be the appropriate place, but it turns out that doing so can cause problems with exporting the quiz.

Posted by ellen at 6:18 PM

March 5, 2006

No table padding on IE for PC

A small difference in the way IE and other browsers interpret table attributes:
Browsers other than IE will show padding if it is applied to the table tag. table { padding:6px; }

IE does not recognize table padding, and will show contained elements as flush with the edges of the table.

For example:

This is the way Safari 2.0 renders the code below. Note the 6 pixel white padding area between the edge of the table and the edge of the tr.



This is the way IE 5 running on VPC renders the code. However IE 6 on PC is the same.

<!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>
<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\" />
<title>test of table padding</title>
<style type=\"text/css\">
<!--
body {
	background-color: #CCCC99;
}
table { 
padding:6px;
background:#FFF;
}

tr.class1 {
background:#FFF;
}

tr.class2 {
background:#99CCCC;
}


-->
</style></head>

<body>
<table width=\"100%\" height=\"356\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">
  <tr class=\"class2\" >
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr class=\"class1\">
    <td> </td>
  </tr bgcolor=\"#99CCCC\">
  <tr class=\"class2\">
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr class=\"class1\">
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr class=\"class2\">
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr class=\"class1\">
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr class=\"class2\">
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr class=\"class1\">
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr class=\"class2\">
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr class=\"class1\">
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Posted by ellen at 12:05 PM