With display:block elements we can freely set the hard width of them. However for inline elements, width:200px simply won’t work at all. One approach is to float the element which usually causes other problems and isn’t handy at all. So how to set width to inline elements without floating them in CSS? The answer is …
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In CSS3, border-radius is the rule you would use to achieve curved corner borderlines, but for now, IE and Opera doesn’t support this trick. With a little script help in the form of a .htc, you can make a cross browser compatible rounded corner box such as a <div> or an <img>. -moz-border-radius: 9px; -webkit-border-radius: …
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HTML 5 comes with a bunch of new tags that IE6 cries that it doesn’t know them, thus refusing to style them according to the CSS. To baby-sit this stupid browser one last time, adding these JavaScript lines in the <head> of your web page that utilizes HTML 5 tags: <script> document.createElement(‘header’); document.createElement(‘nav’); document.createElement(‘section’); document.createElement(‘article’); …
Firefox 3.5 has been released with full support for the current stage of HTML 5. Although the rest of the browsers haven’t explicitly adopted the new tags and new features of HTML 5 yet, you can safely use HTML 5 tags in your web page and style them in CSS just as if they are …
There are in total nearly a hundred HTML tags with good ones as well as bad ones in terms of XHTML. In the creation of a template or theme, after designing for the overall layout, artistic feel as well as the entire set of visual elements, the designer will be preparing the ready-to-use styles needed …
There are at the same time a <cite> tag and a cite attribute in HTML. How does one correctly use them? <q> is for inline quotations, such as when you need to quote a few words, half a sentence or a phrase from someone. <blockquote> is for large chunks of text quotations, usually displayed as …
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As a quick digest of this article by Jonathan. You can literally rotate any HTML element by a certain degree with CSS, be it text or image or something else. After testing across a few modern browsers, the only one that’s not supporting this rotation technique is Opera. The CSS rules you need for a …
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Web pages are made up of HTML code, so if you post or write some HTML code in a web pages, a browser would generally consider them normal code. Instead of showing them as they are literally, they have become part of the underlying HTML structure of that page. Now how to address this problem …
Blinking texts are so 1999. Please by all means if you are still looking for the way to make text blink in HTML web pages, stop. Otherwise, you may want to try these 2 outdated methods that only work partially across modern browsers, but not in IE: The <blink> tag <blink>I’m blinking!/<blink> The blink text-decoration …
While HTML is the concrete of all web pages and websites, CSS is the spirit. It specifies the aesthetic aspect of all the web pages by design through presentation, conveying the ideas and sensations by visual languages. The first class of all web designers start with CSS. These are some of the best CSS books …
HTML is the language of the Web and all websites are written in HTML (XHTML). To learn creating website, the first thing you will need to learn is HTML. Period. Some of the selected books below are for beginners and some are for intermediary coders to consolidate your knowledge of HTML and CSS and practice …
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HTML is the abbreviation of Hyper Text Markup Language invented by Tim Berners-Lee, who’s also been called the father of the Web. HTML is what websites are written in. All websites on the Web are written in HTML that your browsers and email software recognize. It’s a way of representing, organizing and containing information as …
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While many still rely on HTML to center things or make page elements centered in the middle of the page, it’s actually the job of CSS. In HTML, you can center things such as texts or images by using the CENTER tag: <center>This is in the center of the page.</center> You can center not only …
As more and more social sites enable their users to make out custom HTML codes for their homepages, many want to learn about HTML and how to write and modify web pages by HTML. One of the most common questions for a HTML newbie is to change the color of some text or font in …
CSS standards for Cascading Style Sheets. It’s a descriptive programming language that specifies how web pages look like in appearance and style. Take a book for example. The texts in the book are content, just like the texts you are reading right now in a web page or HTML page. The publishers of the book …
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Every HTTP requests made by any client web browsers to an Apache should conform to the HTTP specification and provide certain set of headers information for the server to parse and understand. Useful headers information that can be retrieved in PHP by function apache_request_headers() includes: User-Agent: Operating System, browser and its version number, … Accept-Language: …
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2 functions exist in PHP to convert special characters to HTML entities (a kind of representations defined as in XML for web client such as browsers to recognize and render as special characters such as a spade: â™ , which can be represented as ♠ in HTML), namely htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities(). But what’s the difference? The …
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As we all know the simplest approach to create an email message and send it out is to use the php mail() function. A typical usage example would be: mail(‘[email protected]’, ‘Subject Title’, ‘Message body goes here.’); However, as the mail() function sends emails in text/plain mime type by default, if you include HTML code in …
One of the things the remote web server inspects is the client cookie to know about the requester. If you need cURL to simulate a user browser that sends cookie information to the web server, you need the following options: $c = curl_init(‘http://www.example.com/needs-cookies.php’); curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_COOKIE, ‘user=ellen; activity=swimming’); curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $page = curl_exec …
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By default, all HTTP requests made out by cURL is GET requests that simply fetches the URL and don’t submit any more POST variables. However, if you need to fetch and retrieve URL by the POST method with cURL, you need the snippet below: $url = ‘http://www.example.com/submit.php’; // The submitted form data, encoded as query-string-style …
