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‘this.childNode‘ not working? If you are trying to get a javascript function to work using this.childNode.foo and it’s not working, it’s because the syntax is wrong. Try this.firstChild.foo instead! Guessing at the correct DOM element
Continue readingA 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.
Firefox is much stricter in parsing comment tags than Safari or IE.
Comments should have 2 hyphens after the exclamation point, no more, no less, and there should be no hyphens within the body of the comment.
So:
<!--
is OK, but
<!----
is not, particularly in Firefox.
Example 1 shows a table surrounded by a properly formed comment tag.
Example 2 shows the same table surrounded by a tag with too many hyphens – the table and all code between comment tags disappears – in Firefox.
I created a rounded corner border for a web application using styled div’s.
Continue readingIt is not a straightforward process to create a rounded corner border in css that stretches both horizontally and vertically, and won’t look bad when the page gets too small, AND also looks good in
Continue readingAfter trying unsuccessfully to make some class styles show up in a document recently, I realized I had labeled the class “3column” which does not work. “Col1_of3” works fine, though.
Continue readingMy home page has a lot of columns – the less important ones are usually beyond the right edge of the page in a small screen. In Safari and Firefox that creates an unpleasant page
Continue readingCertain applications work poorly under SSL: the back button may not function, or users’ security settings may be such that they are constantly presented with various certificate errors. Suppose you have a web application which
Continue readingThe default extensions which IIS reads for Server Side Includes are .shtm, .shtml and .stm.
Suppose you want server-side includes to be processed in .htm files also? For example you may have file with the .htm extension which has been on the web for some time and has numerous links pointing at it. You could replace it with a file with one of the allowed extensions, and put a redirect in its place, pointing to the new file. Or, if you have access to the IIS server settings, you could add the .htm extension to the list of files processed for SSI.
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Sometimes it is necessary to have files or an application on one IIS web server (Server B) appear as if they were in the same domain as another server (Server A). For example, you may want
http://serverB.com/content
to be accessible via the URL
http://serverA.com/content
This is useful in cases where you need to avoid cross-doman scripting issues, or simply want to make everything appear to be hosted under one umbrella domain name.
On an IIS server, this can be accomplished by creating a virtual directory on Server A which points to a directory on Server B.
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