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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| Can't Get Two Column Layout to Work in IE... | 3/11/2011 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: Website Address: http://wright.ccc.edu/GreatBooks/coolwebsites.aspx or ... A: I just switched over to using the Mac OS, and have yet to install parallels, allowing me to test in ... | ||
| Inherited Website w/Javascript Syntax Error | 3/8/2011 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: Website Address: http://wright.ccc.edu; Javascript File ... A: Dennis, It appears that this file, jquery_easing.1.3.js, is not loading. It does not appear to be ... | ||
| Show and Hide Blocks of Text... | 10/18/2010 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: Web page in question at http://hwc.ccc.edu/academics/hscdafaqs-test.aspx. CSS file at ... A: In your CSS file, on lines 120 and 307, there exists a repeating CSS block. Remove one of these ... | ||
| Show and Hide Blocks of Text... | 10/18/2010 | Jim Stiles |
| Q: Web page in question at http://hwc.ccc.edu/academics/hscdafaqs-test.aspx. CSS file at ... A: You can accomplish this using the block: display; hide function and assigning it to your DIV. I have ... | ||
| font help | 8/29/2010 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: When I put this code between my head tags <style type="text/css"> ... A: Robert, Although I can't see your actual code, it seems that you're not "reaching" the HTML ... | ||
| font help | 8/29/2010 | Jim Stiles |
| Q: When I put this code between my head tags <style type="text/css"> ... A: You need to assign the preferred font styles to a table class. The table tag used is <table ... | ||
| mouseover | 7/21/2010 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I would like to get some triple mouse/rollover image code working. I was playing today with ... A: Alan, In your example, you're stating: Here is an image object. This image object has a src value ... | ||
| Css and Div Tags | 2/19/2010 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I am trying to build a site using CSS but i am new to it all. My problem is i want to encapsulate ... A: Chris, If you're just trying to gain some footer separation from the rest of the content above it, ... | ||
| Drop down menu needs css correction in IE | 6/26/2009 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I created a drop down menu. It works fine in Firefox, but I have a little problem in IE. When you ... A: Jeff, Without seeing the page in action, it's difficult to give you the exact answer. However, you ... | ||
| Question for Andrew | 6/21/2009 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I was wondering if you could help me. Firstly, thank you so much for all the information at ... A: I don't think you're that close to success going this way. Please try this out instead: ... | ||
| Javascript question for Jim | 6/21/2009 | Jim Stiles |
| Q: I was wondering if you could help me. Firstly, thank you so much for all the information you provide ... A: I would probably place your image map inside a div. Then, show/hide the div using javascript. I have ... | ||
| Javascript Question... | 3/30/2009 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: Got from www.dymanimdrive.com. My web address is http:/hwc.ccc.edu/creativeaging. Address of my ... A: You're missing a '+' sign. Here's what you have: linkset[1]='<a href="lectureseries.htm">Spring ... | ||
| animated GIF for a PDF download | 3/9/2009 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: My question is that I have a free PDF ebook on my website that is 1.8 MB in size and it takes a few ... A: John, 1) Cannot be done. The white browser page is actually the PDF--there's unfortunately nowhere ... | ||
| DHTML | 3/5/2009 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: How do you make a mouseover in DHTML only work when passing over text rather than passing over the ... A: Harry, Next time, please look through your HTML before submitting a question here. Many duplicate ... | ||
| DHTML | 2/27/2009 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: How do you make a mouseover in DHTML only work when passing over text rather than passing over the ... A: Harry, There may be other ways to do this, but here's mine. I specify which elements I want to ... | ||
| Dynamic Dropdowns | 1/13/2009 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I am new to web design. What I am trying to do is create a dropdown based on a one field database ... A: I don't have any VB experience, but found the following link. ... | ||
| Dynamic Width based on Browser Window | 1/2/2009 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I have a site that has a top and left static navigation pane. Using JavaScript, I've been able to ... A: You probably forgot to add "px" after the desired height or width value. Without it, the dimensions ... | ||
| web programming languages | 11/21/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: Would you please take a time to tell me which programming language is currently(and of the times) ... A: Henok, This is a really subjective question, as all my colleagues would give you a different ... | ||
| .a solution! | 11/20/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I have made a fake google,Just for fun.- http://gaurav09.tk/ In the search bar,the default value is ... A: -- one think that i wanna ask is the meta charset was UTF-8 but the code u gave has iso-8859-1 ... | ||
| .a solution! | 11/18/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I have made a fake google,Just for fun.- http://gaurav09.tk/ In the search bar,the default value is ... A: Gaurav, run this code in any browser to test this solution. Basically, you want to add this to your ... | ||
| Click to play sound | 11/3/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: Well I am trying to make it so that on my website when a visitor clicks on a picture, it plays a ... A: This tutorial, though long, is the best I've found. It takes you through each step of the process ... | ||
| onMouseOver Link | 7/5/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: Hey, I'm designing a website and haven't really used Javascript a lot. Anyway, what I've been ... A: Try this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" ... | ||
| How much longer will XP be available? | 6/18/2008 | Jim Stiles |
| Q: I have a simple question that I thunk you can help me with. There was a scare last year that XP had ... A: The good news is Microsoft extended the life cycle for Windows XP. The bad news is the last date you ... | ||
| DHTML,CSS | 6/4/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I work as a web designer/developer for a marketing company and I've been tasked with trying to ... A: I'm assuming you want to stay away from Flash, but if you know PHP or ASP, there are some free ... | ||
| CSS Flyout Rollver Menu..possible? | 5/7/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I was wondering something...I have a rollover menu that I created in Dreamweaver: ... A: I think this will suit you very well. Pure CSS using no JavaScript at all. ... | ||
| Difference | 4/20/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: Difference between html and dhtml A: HTML Here, we're dealing with markup alone--markup being the tags that make up this language: ... | ||
| Share data on a web page? | 3/10/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I call prospects and qualify them on the phone then pass them along to my client, a debt settlement ... A: Michael, It's funny you're asking me this, because I'm actually building something very similar for ... | ||
| Modifying selector text for CSS rule using JavaScript | 3/1/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I went past the last hurdle with your help and got stuck up again at the very next one :-(. This ... A: Parag, I don't answer questions involving external frameworks or toolboxes, but can give you a few ... | ||
| Union/Intersections of styles | 2/29/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I have a question related to CSS which I'm not sure is valid or not :-). So I guess I will hit the ... A: This may be a way to simplify your stylesheet while still getting what you want: div { display: ... | ||
| CSS Menu?? | 2/19/2008 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I was wondering if you could answer a CSS question for me. I found a cool horizontal css menu: ... A: Allie, I'm not certain what this will do to Firefox Mac, but try adding the following CSS properties ... | ||
| summerize css definition | 12/31/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I have a page, which I want to use tabs on it. I've designed tabs with CSS, with the following style ... A: .tab1,.tab2,.tab3 { position:absolute; top:105px; width:100px; padding:4px; text-align:center; ... | ||
| Removing Frames | 9/8/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: My web page has two frames a search navigation frame across the top and the results content frame ... A: If you're removing one frame, leaving only one other frame, why wouldn't you want both frames gone? ... | ||
| Removing Frames | 9/5/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: My web page has two frames a search navigation frame across the top and the results content frame ... A: I'm assuming you have a basic understanding of JavaScript. Just make sure to place the function ... | ||
| searching..... | 7/30/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: OK... you know how you can go to a realtor website and do a search for exactly what you want? I need ... A: JavaScript or HTML cannot help you at all for this question. C++ is not really the right way ... | ||
| visible/hidden | 7/26/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I tried some scripts visible/hidden, diplay/none with div and table, but it work only in ie. In ... A: function show() { if (table.style.display=="none") { table.style.display=""; } else { ... | ||
| form javascript and MSIE | 6/24/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I have a problem here, than I can't solve. The following code works fine on Mozilla-based browsers, ... A: Replace the javascript:void(0) with a # symbol, like this: a href='javascript:void(0)' ... | ||
| Union/Intersections of styles | 6/18/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I have a question related to CSS which I'm not sure is valid or not :-). So I guess I will hit the ... A: Parag, Would you be able to upload a sample page for me to look at? This way, I could tinker in a ... | ||
| DHTML | 6/9/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: How can we prove that in a web page DHTML has used? A: We can tell DHTML is being used in a web page by looking at the behavior on that page. For example, ... | ||
| horizontal rule tag causing additional white space | 5/22/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: Unfortunately I found out the hard way that <hr> property is interpreted differently by most ... A: I've had this happen too, and zeroing out the padding and margins doesn't seem to solve this problem ... | ||
| bookmark in iframe | 5/15/2007 | Andrew Hoffman |
| Q: I have place a small calendar in a iframe with bookmark to go from one month to another. The ... A: Unfortunately, this is the nature of how the anchors work. The way you have it set up doesn't ... | ||
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