Posts Tagged ‘HTML’

JavaScript and IE Problem

February 12, 2009Matt 1 Comment »

IE and problem in the same sentence, not surprising is it?
I’m working on a project at the moment where I’ve come up against a rather frustrating problem in Internet Explorer. I have a series of pop ups on a particular page that are opened with JavaScript when help links are clicked. The JavaScript for them [...]

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Disabling Form Input

October 21, 2008Matt No Comments »

Since I don’t have much time today, but I think I should write something for you to enjoy, I’ve decided to explain how to disable the input in a X/HTML form.Disabling the input to a form using XHTML or HTML is actually really easy, but it’s not very well known.
All you need is one [...]

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Bookmark a Page With Javascript

June 3, 2008Matt No Comments »

I have been asked a few times how to add a bookmark link within a HTML page, so that people can just click the link and the website will be added to their bookmarks.
This is pretty straight forward to do, here is the code you would need:

<a href="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite
('http://blog.stillaslife.com/code/bookmark-a-page-with-javascript/','Bookmark a Page With Javascript | Still As [...]

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CSS Tables - Niceties

March 5, 2008Matt No Comments »

I am looking forward to release of Internet Explorer 8, and what will hopefully be a reasonably quick take up of it.
In the myriad of new standards compliant features is CSS table support. I’ve used these countless times in Firefox, Safari and Opera, only to find that I have to completely rewrite the CSS, far [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 and Acid 2

December 20, 2007Matt No Comments »

Yay a step forward for Internet Explorer finally. According to the Internet Explorer development blog, IE8 now correctly renders the Acid 2 face!
This is great to see! For anyone that doesn’t know what the Acid 2 test is, it is a web standards test that was designed by the Web Standards Project that is intended [...]

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Javascript, MouseOvers and Links

November 16, 2007Matt No Comments »

Yesterday I spent a good many hours working on changes to a client’s website that had to be completed by this morning. What should have been only a couple of hours of work ended up actually being 14 hours of work. The thing that took the longest ended up being a series of Javascript mouseovers [...]

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Floating HTML/CSS Webpage Backgrounds

November 13, 2007Matt No Comments »

For the past 5 days or so I have been wrestling with creating floating backgrounds for a clients website. None of the options I could think of wanted to work. Now it was a little different to your usual floating background.
Usually you’ll have a background that you just don’t want to change throughout the course [...]

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Apples

November 9, 2007Matt No Comments »

Ha! So I hear Prince is threatening to sue fan sites, that sounds logical to me, don’t you? Fan’s get more people to listen to my music, therefore, sue them. Ah wells, that’s his problem I suppose. Knew there had to be a reason I never liked him.
In more interesting news, I just received my [...]

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