Hi Kevin, I should have mentioned that the span width is set on the style of
the span, thus:
<span style="WIDTH: 100%; .....>
So what I am saying is that Java script as well as normal HTML breaks with
the DOCTYPE settings used by VS2005.
The Java script that broke was (1) I've set a handler for the
document.onscroll and the event did not fire any more, and (2) on another
form I had something like theDiv.scrollIntoView().
Thanks in any case.
"Kevin Spencer" <kevin@DIESPAMMERSDIEtakempis.com> wrote in message
news:%237hJVEQ7FHA.472@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> The following JavaScript will allow the "width" style for spans to work in
> all browsers, regardless of DOCTYPE:
>
> <script type="text/javascript" >
> var sps = document.getElementsByTagName("span");
> for (var index = 0; index < sps.length; index++)
> {
> var sp = sps[index];
> if (sp.className == "label")
> {
> var s = sp.style.width.substring(0, sp.style.width.indexOf("px"));
> var i = (s - sp.offsetWidth) / 2;
> if (sp.style.textAlign == "center")
> {
> sp.style.paddingLeft = i;
> sp.style.paddingRight = i;
> }
> else if (sp.style.textAlign == "right")
> sp.style.paddingLeft = i * 2;
> else
> sp.style.paddingRight = i * 2;
> }
> }
> </script>
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
> .Net Developer
> If you push something hard enough,
> it will fall over.
> - Fudd's First Law of Opposition
>
> "Joerg Jooss" <news-reply@joergjooss.de> wrote in message
> news:xn0e9xalmd0135e015@msnews.microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Chris Botha wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I am porting an existing 2003 project to 2005. Yesterday I found that
>>> some of my Java script did not want to work. After eventually
>>> examining the HTML view of the new and old form for differences, I
>>> noticed the DOCTYPE lines pretty close to the top of the forms in
>>> HTML view differ. I removed the line in the new form and my Java
>>> script worked. Today I noticed that a SPAN on a new form with the
>>> width property set to 100% displayed about 1/4 over the page, so I
>>> thought let me give the DOCTYPE line a shot, I removed it and the
>>> SPAN displays perfectly. So, I am not sure if the DOCTYPE line
>>> generated by VS2005 is evil or a new standard, but it surely causes
>>> problems.[/color]
>>
>> What you experience is called "quirks" mode. See
>>
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html for more details.
>>
>> Here's how IE 6 decides between quirks and standards compliant mode:
>>
>>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de.../en-us/dnie60/
>> html/cssenhancements.asp
>>
>> Unfortunately, Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 both use a default
>> DOCTYPE in ASP.NET that *enables* quirks mode.
>> [Hony soit qui mal y pense ;-)]
>>
>> What does all that mean for your HTML? If it requires quirks mode, it's
>> most likely broken...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>>
http://www.joergjooss.de
>> mailto:news-reply@joergjooss.de[/color]
>
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