HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the predominant markup language used for creating web pages.
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Are there any reasons not to ever use classes or ids anymore?
I sort of understand unobtrusive javascript. Even in my CSS now I hardly ever use classes or id's because I like clean, easy to read, uncluttered html files. For example, why use this:
<body ...
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Is investing time in WinJS worthwhile? [on hold]
I was wondering since last few days that JS is now becoming so popular these days. Node.js has opened new horizons. I was wondering if JS can be used to build windows gui apps and I came across WinJS. ...
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Windows Phone 10 Captive Browser to Full Browser [on hold]
I have a captive portal which opens whenever you are connected in a network, and there are videos in it. The captive browser in windows doesn't allow to play the videos embedded in html5.
Is there ...
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How do I create an HTML form that emails me the input? [on hold]
I would like to create a simple HTML form that emails me or sends me the input of the form without showing the user. I have managed to create an HTML that does that, but when you click "submit" it ...
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Merging dynamically created data with an HTML template
I have a C# application where I'd like to present information that is accumulated in memory from an embedded system in the form of an HTML page in a near real-time manner. As a proof of concept I've ...
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Making Div Tabbed Panels in Javascript
I have a website that needs to dynamically generate div tabs based on user input. Currently, this is the code I have to generate a single div:
var div = document.createElement("div");
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Best practice for storing external text to then place in html
Sorry if I'm not explaining the question well in the title, I'm not sure of the correct lingo. Let me give you an example instead.
So this is a normal HTML file.
<span>Well to the ...
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Why does :nth-child() in CSS start from 1 instead of 0?
Why does :nth-child() iterate from one instead of zero?
As shown in this example. Why does it select the first element and not the second when
p :nth-child(1)
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Avoid line breaks in a div [migrated]
How can I avoid line breaks in a div when I use a php funcion. My code is HTML is
<div class="toolbar">
<div style="float:left; ">
Profile <?php ...
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What type of encoding does wikipedia use?
I have the wikipedia data dump and trying to decode special characters in the page titles, except a lot of characters don't match up the "standard" ascii encoding (referencing from here.)
As an ...
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How do I make such a page that opens different link in web (PC) and different in mobile (phones)?
I am building a website that looks beautiful in Web but worst in mobiles. I want to build the same site but different designing for mobile. Whenever user opens site.com then it auto redirect to ...
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Should I use <table> or <div>? [closed]
I am making a time-sheet portion of a website and I was wondering if using to create the time-sheet portion is an appropriate usage of table or would div be a better use?
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HTML Encoding - XSS protection
My general rule for web development is that the server encodes HTML tags in any user-generated input when it is first submitted to prevent XSS.
However recently someone suggested that instead of ...
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How to effectively log while avoiding a bottleneck
I have a fuzzer for x86 Internet Explorer (in HTML) that I've heavily modified to have reproducible, determinisitic crashes (so that I may perform root cause analysis faster). I'm attempting to ...
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Javascript and HTML decoupling
Based on the following snippet
HTML
<table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Position</th>
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How is rendering a Word document different from rendering a website? [closed]
Now, it doesn't necessarily have to be Word — for ease of comparison, let's use ODT, which is based on XML — which is pretty similar to HTML. That would, to my mind, make rendering an ODT ...
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Generating dual .xlsx files and .htm pages of the same data
Here are my requirements:
Generate Excel reports for users, attaching them to emails
Additionally, insert hyperlinks into those emails where the user can view the same report on a web page.
I have ...
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Will Web Components in HTML Add Too Much Complexity? [closed]
The way I've been accustomed to User Interfaces is to see everything as a div. Where a div is essentially a box and they can be stylized in CSS.
<div class='container'>
<div ...
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Is there a standardized practice for ordering attributes in HTML tags?
Thanks for looking.
I am working on an AngularJS project and the attributes are numerous in many of my HTML elements:
<button type="submit" ng-click="Page.UI.DetailView.ExecuteFunction()" ...
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How can I properly classify elements?
I'm writing a webpage with a simple header, nav, body and footer layout.
To style it, I wrote the following CSS:
.mainSideBar {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: ...
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Comparing two large strings to see how much they match [duplicate]
Is there an easy way of comparing any two different size of string text to see how much percentage they're alike?
I'm trying this but I'm running into to this issue below. The left text area is the ...
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Is there any danger in rendering user-entered HTML and can it be mitigated?
I'm guessing the answer is no because there's quite a few examples, including right here. If I let users submit their own HTML text and then render it side by side, what could the user do that would ...
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How does postback url works in campaign tracking systems?
my question is theoretical, a vague idea or some sort of algorithm will be great.
I am building an advertising campaign tracker web app for a friend, yet i am kinda lost, i cant figure out how the ...
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Shopping cart in PHP : Sessions or Database? [closed]
I am currently developing a simple shopping cart using PHP & HTML.
I've been having troubles with using the SESSIONS in Php like:
Sessions not continuing when I switch pages even though I ...
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Turning an HTML template into a Django template
When you purchase an HTML template, usually everything is mixed in together... html, css, images and js.
An example template may look like this:
account.html
category.html
contact.html
/fonts
/img
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Would it be possible to transfer an HTML file using a protocol different from HTTP?
I am reading about internet and stuff and just learned that web pages are really just HTML files.
Also, I have learned that HTTP is just a transfer protocol.
So my question is, would it be possible ...
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How http-caching works with form element?
As per MDN, the attributes only supported by form element are:
accept-charset, action, autocomplete, enctype, method, name, novalidate and target.
With the help of http response header properties ...
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develop crossplatform GUI based DESKTOP application with HTML5/CSS [closed]
I'm experienced wed developer doing stuff for web for a several years. But now my customer need to build crossplatform ETL tool which he want to ship to his clients. And will be much easier if it will ...
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Are facilities that generate HTML for you, considered harmful? [closed]
I will approach this from two directions (+ raw HTML itself being de-facto third)
Proprietary HTML-generating code
Code generating facilities provided by a popular library
Proprietary ...
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PHP MySQL unique user data [closed]
I'm trying to create a php website that users log into and they can submit data to a MySQL database. How do I make it so the users can only see data they've submitted and not everyone else's data?
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Correct way of running methods from frontend in an OOP framework
If I have a link to change language of my website, where should that link lead in order to execute a PHP command, specifically in Codeigniter framework?
I am interested in the most recommended, DRY ...
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Is the `<table>` tag and `display:table` a functional or a layout directive?
Background
I've always disliked the idea of using the CSS property of display:table. Using it feels like an ugly hack and I always prefer to use a direct <table> tag instead. Of course, I use ...
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Is there anything wrong with putting comments in an HTML closing tag?
I often write comments like this
<div id="wrapper">
...
</div> <!-- id="wrapper" -->
But what if I wrote them like this?
<div id="wrapper">
...
</div id="wrapper">
...
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Best Practices: URL Path Parameters [closed]
What's the current best practice around path parameters in URLs?
For instance
/artist/name
A long time ago I might have made artist.html and then passed in a query parameter /artist.html?name=name ...
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How should I test the HTML output my class creates?
As a learning project, I am trying to create something similar to the WebGrid that comes with ASP.NET MVC. Now this component MyGrid<T> looks like this:
public class MyGrid<T> where T : ...
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Should I Include PHP code in HTML or HTML in PHP?
What is the best practice, to write my PHP code inside my HTML code or HTML inside PHP?
PHP inside HMTL:
<p class="lead">Welcome to the <?= COMPANY_NAME ?> website.</p>
HTML ...
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Javascript Password Security [closed]
I am having difficulty with the answer provided here, but I couldn't understand how to implement it. My code is pretty much identical:
<script language="javascript">
function check(form) {
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Is localStorage under The Cookie Law?
I'd like to avoid having the cookies banner on my websites where possible. Could I store session id's in localStorage to bypass implementing the banner?
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Synchronizing webpage and local pdf
I would like to solve the following problem. On my website, I have a list of my publications. I also have my list of publications on a latex file of my cv. The issue is that I update these manually, ...
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Is progressive HTTP download a viable alternative to HLS/DASH/RTMP for providing live video?
I'm working on a website that needs to stream live video to users, and as such I've had to get my head around the sorry state of current browser-based video-streaming technology. The most popular ...
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Where to declare event handlers: Markup or Script?
If the event handler is declared in the markup, it'd be (kind-of) adding presentation logic to HTML.
<button id="btn" onClick="foo()">Click Me!</button>
If the event handler is declared ...
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How can I keep browser URL secret when editing data?
Suppose,
There is a user list.
<a href="user/5">Edit</a>
<a href="user/6">Edit</a>
When a system user clicked to edit a user info. Then it goes to url to browser like as
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In HTML and CSS what are the standard tab sizes? [closed]
I searched on Google but couldn't find an answer. I'd like to know what are the standard tab sizes for HTML and CSS. Is it 2 or 4?
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maintain rate of animation with requestAnimationFrame
I've noticed that HTML game developers are recommending the use of requestAnimationFrame as opposed to a timer for the animation loop. I understand that this can be optimized by the browser, but how ...
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Flag arguments in an html factory class
I have been told that flag arguments(boolean arguments) are a bad thing because it complicates the signature of the method and means that the method does more than one thing.
An issue I have with ...
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How Do News Websites E.g. Forbes / Zdnet Seamlessly Merge One Webpage into Another?
If you go to E.g:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2015/06/12/why-technology-has-to-be-continuous/
OR
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Truncating HTML content at specific content blocks
I have HTML content in my DB and I would like to present a list of these individual items but truncate each of them so they're not fully displayed. I would like to keep truncated items ...
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Pre-Processors vs Pure Web [closed]
It seems like within the last few years or so HTML/CSS/JavaScript Preprocessors have exploded in quantity and general use. They're still not as common as pure HTML, CSS, and JS/jQuery, but their ...
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Is it appropriate to use the unordered list (ul) element for composite content
I recently had a thought of utilizing the unordered list element to represent a list of composite content (such as a product list with details or an image list with captions).
For example:
...
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Web App - Better to load Large, low quality image or many html elements?
I'm creating a web application that is visually enormous. I'm talking 2 million pixels wide and 2 million pixels tall (about).
My goal is to show dynamically changing spots all over the site. For ...
