HTML / CSS Forum

Is doing this bad: <h3>Some title or other...<a href="#pagetop">back to top</a></h3> I have a feeling it is... My problem is I'm using CSS to style the H3 into a block that spans the whole containing element. I would like the <a> to appear next to the title, but I'm sure this is bad practice (for screen readers and heading-level...

Are we going backwards ? (please excuse my spelling...) In my opinion an absolute YES ! Take a look at what we are doing ! we create TAGS, things like <H1> etc. and although there are tools (dreamweaver and the like), they are all at the lowest level of programming (something like assembly as oposed to C++ etc.). These tools create...

http://www.galtsvalley.com Hi all. I've recently made some major stylistic changes to my site and now it is essentially a new design with some new CSS plumbing. I am hoping that a few hardy souls can go check it out and tell me how it renders on their platform/browser combos. I have tested it under W2K, WXP, and System 9 on a Power Mac...

I'm still relativey new to stylesheets, so I'm hoping that the way I'm going about things can be seriously improved upon, i.e . I just haven't undersood something obvious about the 'cascading' nature of the coding, which I believe concerns the way attributes relate to one another when 'nested'... I think I can illustrate the nature of the...

I'm new to HTML and want to learn the basics by learning to code by hand (with the assistance of an HTML editor to eliminate repetitive tasks). Can anyone recommend a good, basic HTML editor that's a step beyond Notepad (not a WYSIWYG tool). Thanks.

Hi, Since I have made changes to my website it's been a complete flop. According to the logs, as soon as visitors have downloaded the index page they are off. I can't figure out why? http://www.review-a-gadget.com/ Is there anything obvious that I am missing? Are there problems with some browsers? Please let me know if you notice...

Sorry if the question is a bit basic. I generally express my font sizes in pixels, originally to handle the Macintosh/Windows font size differences (though I believe that they both now treat points the same way, at least within the browser window). It has been suggested that one should use ems to allow browsers to increase or decrease the...

I'm trying to design my style sheets such that my pages have similar-looking fonts different platforms (Linux, Mac, Adobe, X-Windows, MS Windows, etc). The problem is, a font on one platform might be the same as a font on another platform, but with different names. I'd like to be able to specify the font names that are "most equivalent." ...

I have quite often (as have probably many of you) come across HTML forms with irritating bits of Javascript attached. The last straw on this particular camel's back was a large form I was asked to complete in connection with attendance at a seminar. After spending more than 15 minutes on it, I clicked on the submit button - and nothing...

Hi There, Prob a simple answer to this (I hope) but I can't quite work it out yet... I have this in a page: <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="43,68,52,77" href="map.html" target="_blank" alt="Link to map"> </map>

I've been looking for references for some weeks now, but haven't found an answer to the following question. I'd love some help on this: *Without* using JavaScript or other active client-side scripting, server-side includes or frames, is there a way to include a standard header on all pages within a site? The design goal is to have the...

I have a web site that, due to maintenance by several people, some of whom are fairly clueless about HTML and CSS, etc. (notably me), has gotten to the point where I'm pretty sure it's suffering from bit rot. Though the pages seem to display okay under IE and FF, I really think it's time for an under-the-hood cleaning. I recently received a...

Here's a question I don't know the answer to: I have a friend who makes very expensive, hand-made bamboo flyrods. He's widely recognized (in the fishing industry) as one of the 3-5 'best' rod makers in the world. He gets (sic) close to $5000 per custom made flyrod. A surprising number of people buy these fishing rods and never use...

Is there a listing of serif fonts and san-serif fonts somewhere? Regards, Alan -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

A question came up at work from one of our clients about forms on their site. The data from these forms are processed by a PHP script and if all goes well, a thank you screen appears. Sometimes, when you go back to the form (by clicking the back button), the data is still there in the form fields. Other times it is not. The client would...

after creating a couple of mediocre sites and talking too much about them, i've been overwhelmed w/ requests for new sites & site make-overs. i have a full-time job and i don't have the time or skills to develop what companies are asking of me. i'd like to capitalize on this by hiring someone to do all the production once i've sold the site....

A friend of mine pointed out the other day that certain elements on my web site are too small. But in most of what I publish, fonts are at default size or smaller, and my images are easy to see. I am viewing at 800x600 right now by the way, because that's what I can comfortably see. Times New Roman default pitch is what - 12px? With...

I am building a website with identical content in four different languages. On a first visit, the search engine determines the language of the content by the IP address of the visitor. What the user sees is content in only one language at a time. He or she can then switch to another language and set this as the preferred language, but again he...

Greetings. Do any popular browsers correctly support <q>, at least for Western languages? I've noticed that Mozilla uses the standard English double-quote character, ", regardless of the lang attribute of the HTML document. Will any browsers render German-style quotes or French-style guillemots for lang="de" and lang="fr", respectively? ...

I'm trying to replace <table>s with <div>s as much as possible. However, I can't figure out how to do the following… <table> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%">some data that will 'stretch'</td> <td valign="top" width="300">some data that won't 'stetch'</td> </tr> </table>

Why does SVG need a different tag than other images? IMHO, SVG should be implemented as an image type just like any other image type, allowing it to work with <img> tags, and ... here is the important part ... also work with backgrounds in other tags. I fail to see any wisdom in making SVG different than say PNG (of course the...

Hi, i've placed a table within a <div> to dispay some data. All is well in FF, but in MSIE the table starts inline with the bottom of the <div> to the left. I've set the css div to vertical align: top, but this hasn't made a differance. http://www.paulwatt.info/test/calendar.htm Thanks guys

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I have been struggling with a page that is based on a table structure (because that is all I am feeling comfortable with at the moment) styled with css. One of the problems I run in to is Opera (Opera 7 in my case). The weird thing is: viewing the page through Opera's eyes the first time around is OK, but after refreshing, the page gets...

The footer on my page stays where I want it to be (at the bottom of the screen) as long as the content has enough volume to push it down. The moment I take out content, the container obviously wraps itself around the little bit that is left, and shoots upwards on the screen or viewport - if I use that term correctly. This seems to be a...