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bneacetp24-Jun-04 21:20

24-Jun-04 21:20

I want to place an image as a background for a table's cell. However, I don't want to have the image continue to tile when the cell is larger than the image. How would I stop the image from repeating? Confused | :confused:

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Re: No BG Image repeating in a table's cell

Andrew Quinn AUS25-Jun-04 5:10

Andrew Quinn AUS

25-Jun-04 5:10

Hi,

Use background-repeat CSS style property.

"repeat" Default. Image is repeated horizontally and vertically.
"no-repeat" Image is not repeated.
"repeat-x" Image is repeated horizontally.
"repeat-y" Image is repeated vertically.

To make it easier, use the background composite property, e.g.

<td width='100' style='background:url(images/xyzxyz.gif) no-repeat top left'>Hello</td>

This way we've set background-image, background-repeat, background-position all in one go

Hope this helps,
Andy

Re: No BG Image repeating in a table's cell

bneacetp25-Jun-04 5:30

bneacetp

25-Jun-04 5:30

Thanks for the help! Big Grin | :-D

Happy Programming and God Bless!

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Web Development

Bashir Khanjee24-Jun-04 7:30

Bashir Khanjee

24-Jun-04 7:30

there are so many languages availble for web programming like the Cold Fusion, ASP, JSP, Perl/CGI, PHP.
Smile | :)

i ask which one should be learnt by heart to become a good web developer.Thanks

Bashir Khan
Master of Computer Science

Re: Web Development

palbano24-Jun-04 11:53

palbano

24-Jun-04 11:53

None. Study TCP/IP, HTTP, CGI,ISAPI and HTML. This is the knowledge that could enable one to become a proficient web developer rather than just another script kiddie.

But, that's just my opinion… I could be wrong.

"No matter where you go, there your are." - Buckaroo Banzai

-pete

Re: Web Development

Maximilien24-Jun-04 12:03

Maximilien

24-Jun-04 12:03

Bashir Khanjee wrote:
which one should be learnt by heart to become a good web developer

I don't think that learning by heart is an absolute necessity to be a good developer; more important is to know how and where to find information.

I think that learning HTML and all its close relatives ( xml,xhtml,dhtml,css, ... ) is a good start.

after that, learning other technologies will depend mostly of what exactly you want to achieve.

Maximilien Lincourt
Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

Re: Web Development

Steven Campbell25-Jun-04 4:54

Steven Campbell

25-Jun-04 4:54

If your objective is to become a good web developer, then you should use at least 2 of the above. That way, you learn strengths and weaknesses of particular techniques.

And of course, as others have mentioned, the basics like HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.

Re: Web Development

Member 120167426-Jun-04 18:29

Member 1201674

26-Jun-04 18:29

If you know programming and want to get a fast start go for PHP; Easy to learn and highly efficient. You can do 80% of the work by knowing just 20% of the language.

But that would be on the server side. For the client you would like to know things like javascripts, HTML/DHTML

I myself prefer to use HTML/CSS and a little of javascripts

Any tool is only as good as you can use it!!
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Re: Web Development

Sage5-Jul-04 6:09

Sage

5-Jul-04 6:09

it is agreed with previous posts. Especially Palbano as knowing why something works will help you make things that work so much better. You dont need to be an expert, but you should definatly have a solid understanding of the general concepts involved. HTML, XML, XHTML and CSS are pretty much prerequisites and should be considered as such. Again, mastery is good, but a solid understanding is better.

When it comes to scripting languages, the more the better, but it depends on what type of developer you plan on being and who your clientelle are (going to be) ... if you are going to work in a windows shop or focus on that , then PHP and Perl arent going to be as important as ASP, .NET per se. I will say that aside for PERL, once you learn one language and get good with it... other languages will be much easier to learn. Javascript and any ECMA scripting language will all just make sense. EG. If you know/learn C/C++/C# , then Javascript and Actionscript would be simple for you. If you know PERL, them PHP will make more sense to you and be much easier to learn.

That is my 2 Cents.

Re: Web Development

mysorian12-Aug-04 10:43

mysorian

12-Aug-04 10:43

You need to learn two generic type of languages, one for client scripting which is evaluated locally on your computer and the other the server side scripting which is evaluated[processed] on the server side.

<font color='maroon'>Clientside:</font> javascript,vbscript
(mostly for IIS),jscript and the most recommended ECMA script
<font color='blue'>Server side:</font>ASP, ASP.Net -->Mostly IIS servers
            JSP          -->Java Server Pages for Apache,WebLogic and Sun Servers
            PHP          -->Open source, both Unix and windows

Best advice I can give is: Please go to: http://www.w3c.org
There is no point in learning by heart, it is more like learning by doing.

CSS question

theJazzyBrain24-Jun-04 1:41

theJazzyBrain

24-Jun-04 1:41

Is there a way to specify a style for a Submit button by using HTML Element style...

e.g. For the INPUT ELEMENT we say:

INPUT {width:50px;}

but this will aplly to submit buttons too...
Is there a way to set another style for the Submit button?

theJazzyBrain

Excellence is not an act, but a habit!

Aristotle

Re: CSS question

WoutL24-Jun-04 1:58

WoutL

24-Jun-04 1:58

CSS:

<br />
input.submit {width:100px;}<br />

HTML:

<br />
<input type = "submit" class="submit"><br />

Wout Louwers

Re: CSS question

theJazzyBrain24-Jun-04 2:19

theJazzyBrain

24-Jun-04 2:19

is there a way to do it without specifying the class attribute in the input element?

theJazzyBrain

Excellence is not an act, but a habit!

Aristotle

Re: CSS question

Aaron Eldreth24-Jun-04 2:31

Aaron Eldreth

24-Jun-04 2:31

You could specify an id for the element.

<submit type="input" id="thingey">

Then, do what you need to in CSS by referencing the id.

#thingey{width:50px;}

Or, you would use the style attribute of the submit button itself.

<submit type="input" style="width: 50px;">

Aaron Eldreth

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Server won't let my app Delete

Budsy24-Jun-04 0:45

Budsy

24-Jun-04 0:45

My ASP.NET web application has a file upload feature. I can upload files, and download those files, but the server won't let me delete them (using System.IO.File.Delete and similar), giving an error of

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path "<omitted here>" is denied.

Anybody suggest how I might get my app to have the required permission to Delete the file? ...and, while we're at it, why can I write and read, but not delete??

Using IIS, f

Re: Server won't let my app Delete

Sage5-Jul-04 6:13

Sage

5-Jul-04 6:13

Read and Write are 2 separate permissions in Windows where as Delete is probably considered Modify and your admin might not have granted you (IUSER_MachineName) access to that function.

Look into that for starters.

- Sage

Script to send mail with Merak mail server

DHARMA.R22-Jun-04 22:06

DHARMA.R

22-Jun-04 22:06

Hi,

I've hosted my web site on a server with Merak mail.
Now I want to have a mail form in my site.
I know the script for sending mail via SMTP server.
Can anyone help me with code to send mails via Merak server ?
Is it same as SMTP coding ?

Thanx

DHARMA.R

Passing value from iframe page to mainpage

percyvimal22-Jun-04 12:01

percyvimal

22-Jun-04 12:01

I have a 2 pages
1. Main page (which contains the iframe) (MainPage)
2. A page Within IFrame (Sub Page)

Now i have list of records in sub Page and have a link for each records.
when a user click that link using that link i need to send a value(values of that record selected) to the mainpage.

only way of doing is i have to reload the main page.
I was able to load the main page by using the script
parent.location.reload();

but problem i have is i can load the main page from the Subpage but how to pass value from sub page to main page.

Say i have values
Code = 95 Type= A Localvalueofthatpaage="ALexander"
I have these values in Sub Page and have to pass to main page

I need help very urgently
thanks in advance
with regards
vimal

Help in need is the help indeed

Re: Passing value from iframe page to mainpage

Andrew Quinn AUS22-Jun-04 21:55

Andrew Quinn AUS

22-Jun-04 21:55

Hi there,

Create a jscript/vbscript function in your main page, then in your sub page you can call the function passing whatever you need, eg.

Function in sub page

<script language='JScript'>
<!--
function update(value)
{
   var wndControlPage = parent;
   // test the parent page exists, and test there is a function
   // defined with this name on the page...
   if (wndControlPage && wndControlPage.MyFunction}
   {
       // success, lets call it
       wndControlPage.MyFunction(value);
   }
   else
   {
       // error...
   }
}
//-->
</script>

Hope this helps,
Andy

ASP Session state not stored on some clients

Miszou22-Jun-04 8:45

Miszou

22-Jun-04 8:45

I have a small website that uses ASP session variables to store a userid/username after login.

Everything seems to work fine on most clients, except for a Windows 2000 Server machine. The session does not seem to be maintained at all. I added the following code to the main page, and every time I refresh the page, the sessionID increases, which it shouldn't do:

response.write session.sessionid

I have checked cookies, security settings and everything else I can think of, but it still doesn't work. Another computer in the same office (behind the same firewall/router) doesn't have any problem with the site.

It seems to be only this site that has a problem. It is running on IIS 4.0 on NT Server 4.0 SP6. Session state is enabled, or else it wouldn't work on any computer Wink | ;)

Also, it seems as though this[^] person is having the same problem, but since I'm not a member, I can't see the answer Sigh | :sigh:

Does anyone know what the problem could be?

On a (possibly) unrelated note, I have noticed that GIF animations don't work on this computer either - even though they are enabled in the options.

Thanks Smile | :)

Re: ASP Session state not stored on some clients

Budsy24-Jun-04 0:01

Budsy

24-Jun-04 0:01

Make sure the client does not have anything blocking cookies. IE, for example, needs to be set on 'low' in Tools...Internet settings....Privacy. Make sure there is no firewall (specifically ZoneAlarm) blocking them too.

I've seen IE do the non-animating gif thing too. Eventually my gifs came back to life in Internet Explorer, and I don't know why they went 'dead' for a long time. Odd. Anyway, there is an animation counter inside animated gifs. Try setting them to some extrememly high value.

Budsy

Re: ASP Session state not stored on some clients

Miszou24-Jun-04 5:51

Miszou

24-Jun-04 5:51

Thanks for the reply! Turns out it was ZoneAlarm - when I installed it, I chose the 14 day ZA Pro trial and when it expired I just reverted back to the regular free version.

Somehow, my site got set to not accept session cookies, and since I was now running the free version, there was no way in the UI to re-enable it! I uninstalled/reinstalled and everything's working fine now Smile | :)

I probably should have figured it was something like this, but ZA is so quiet now, that I just forgot about it. D'Oh! | :doh:

col and colgroup question.

Maximilien22-Jun-04 8:27

Maximilien

22-Jun-04 8:27

Background: I'm generating an html document from a c++ program, containing a lot of tables ( in the worse case, hundreds of tables ), and I'd like to limit the size of the document to a minimum.

Is it possible to put those in a CSS file ?

now, I put the following colgroup definition for each table.

<table>
<colgroup span="2">
<col width="20%"></col>
<col width=*></col>
</colgroup>
...
</table>

Is it possible to transfer that into a CSS definition file ? if so, what would be the syntax ?

Thanks.

M.

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getting apache username with php/python

keegan21-Jun-04 8:28

keegan

21-Jun-04 8:28

Hi. I need to get the username of people when they log into a secure area of my website. (I want to do it in php, so i can output each login with an IP, people keep passing out the password, i want to see what logins have multiple IPs).

Is there a way to do this in PHP or python? Im using apache with cPanel.

Thanks.

*.*
cin >> knowledge;

Re: getting apache username with php/python

markkuk22-Jun-04 0:19

markkuk

22-Jun-04 0:19

Yes, you can authenticate users with PHP.

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