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Bradml16-Dec-06 23:32

16-Dec-06 23:32

Going back to your layout problem, could you post your current source so I could play around with it and see if I can get what you want?

Brad
Australian

"Keyboard? Ha! I throw magnets over the RAM chips!" - peterchen

Re: xhtml and footers

Jeremy Falcon17-Dec-06 6:09

Jeremy Falcon

17-Dec-06 6:09

What I have is based on this:

http://scott.sauyet.com/CSS/Demo/FooterDemo1.html[^]

One thing I've noticed that in FF now there's padding at the top with this "solution" (set on purpose) but once it's removed then the footer starts acting weird. If you figure something out that would be awesome, but of course I'd like to know why your changes work, etc. Ya know me, I want to learn from it. Wink | ;)

I just don't see how something as simple as a footer was overlooked when setting a new standard. D'Oh! | :doh:

TIA btw man.

Jeremy Falcon
"It's a good thing to do and a tasty way to do it." - Wilford Brimley[^]

Re: xhtml and footers [modified]

Bradml18-Dec-06 5:41

Bradml

18-Dec-06 5:41

Hey Jeremy.

I'm sorry for the lateness of this reply but I have been flat out the past couple days.

Anyway I took a look and the page there and quickly reconstucted it so i could make sure i knew exactly what it was doing (PS. The footer breaks in Dreamweaver!).

Ok here is the CSS:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
/*This will make sure that the entire window space is utilized. 
Without it the footer would not take up the entire width and would not be at the base of the document. */

html, body, #container {
	min-height: 100%;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
}

/*This is hack to stop firefox from displaying a scroll bar. 
IE 5 for Windows will not read this because of the "html>body" thing. */
html>body, html>body #container{
height:auto;
}

/*Formating and removing margins*/
body{
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin:0;
}

/*Setting the page containers start position (This container takes up the entire document) */
#container{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;

}

/*The footer is placed at the bottom left with a width of 100%. 
I have not used the box model hack because I have removed its borders and padding. */
#footer{
position:absolute;
left:0px;
bottom:0px;
width:100%;
background-color:#FFFF00;

border:0px;
padding:0px;
}

/*The "margin-bottom:" stops the document from becoming small enough for an overlap to occur. 
Note that if you have multiple lines you may have to increase this. */
#content{
margin-bottom: 4em; 
height: auto;
padding: .5em;
}

/*and that is that*/
-->
</style>

So that is pretty much how that all works...

This page is an example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Page with Footer!</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
html, body, #container {
	min-height: 100%;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
}


html>body, html>body #container{
height:auto;
}

body{
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin:0;
}
#container{
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:0px;

}

#footer{
position:absolute;
left:0px;
bottom:0px;
width:100%;
background-color:#FFFF00;
border-top:2em;
height:auto;
}
#content{
margin-bottom: 4em; 
height: auto;
padding: .5em;
}

-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
This is page content.
It could contain many many many lines of code!
<br />
This is even more content!<br />
And so is this!!
</div>
	
<div id="footer">
This is a footer!!! <i>Brads amazing facts #451254</i>
<br />
More!!
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I wonder if I should consider writing an article on this sort of thing....
What do you think?

-- modified at 11:46 Monday 18th December, 2006

Brad
Australian

"Keyboard? Ha! I throw magnets over the RAM chips!" - peterchen

Re: xhtml and footers

Jeremy Falcon18-Dec-06 6:16

Jeremy Falcon

18-Dec-06 6:16

Bradml wrote:
I'm sorry for the lateness of this reply but I have been flat out the past couple days.

Now you're gonna make me feel guilty. Laugh | :laugh:

I understand people gotta have a life. I'm just glad for the free help. No worries man.

Jeremy Falcon
"It's a good thing to do and a tasty way to do it." - Wilford Brimley[^]

Re: xhtml and footers

Jeremy Falcon18-Dec-06 6:21

Jeremy Falcon

18-Dec-06 6:21

Grrr. I have a new mouse with all these weird buttons that apparently submitted my other post too soon. D'Oh! | :doh:

Anyway...

Bradml wrote:
This page is an example:

I opened your example up on FF 2.0 (Windows) and the footer still wasn't at the bottom of the page.

Bradml wrote:
I wonder if I should consider writing an article on this sort of thing....
What do you think?

I think it would be useful if we found something that works. After searching Google forever, there's a lot of people wondering the same thing as I - that I've seen anyway.

Most of the solutions I've run across never worked for all major browsers.

Jeremy Falcon
"It's a good thing to do and a tasty way to do it." - Wilford Brimley[^]

Re: xhtml and footers

Bradml18-Dec-06 18:42

Bradml

18-Dec-06 18:42

I tested in ff2.

Let me double check the source.

Brad
Australian

"Keyboard? Ha! I throw magnets over the RAM chips!" - peterchen

Re: xhtml and footers

Bradml18-Dec-06 18:48

Bradml

18-Dec-06 18:48

No I checked again and it definitely worked.

Did you copy ALL the source for that page?
especially:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

If that doesn't work then take a screen shot of what it looks like and send it to me by email.

Also include:
Screen shot of the help>about Mozilla Firefox
and a complete copy of the source you are using in a text file.

Brad
Australian

"Keyboard? Ha! I throw magnets over the RAM chips!" - peterchen

Re: xhtml and footers

Jeremy Falcon19-Dec-06 4:07

Jeremy Falcon

19-Dec-06 4:07

I think we have a misunderstanding here. Let me try and be more clear about what I mean.

I'm looking for a footer that's always at the bottom of the viewport, not the document. That is to say, if there's not a lot of data/content on the page it will still be at the bottom. The version you sent me only keeps the footer at the bottom if the document contains a lot of data.

I can send you a mock-up of what I'm talking about if you want. Maybe that's the best way to make sure we're talking apples to apples.

Thanks again.

Jeremy Falcon
"It's a good thing to do and a tasty way to do it." - Wilford Brimley[^]

Re: xhtml and footers

Jeremy Falcon19-Dec-06 4:08

Jeremy Falcon

19-Dec-06 4:08

Oh, and even though the footer is at the bottom of the viewport, I don't ever want it to overlap content on the website.

Jeremy Falcon
"It's a good thing to do and a tasty way to do it." - Wilford Brimley[^]

Re: xhtml and footers

S Douglas19-Mar-07 1:29

S Douglas

19-Mar-07 1:29

Thanks Brad, that gives me an idea how to solve a problem I'm having.

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

Re: xhtml and footers

Bradml19-Mar-07 1:33

Bradml

19-Mar-07 1:33

No problem mate, but how did you stumble apon that post? it is ancient.

Brad
Australian

- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"

A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.

Re: xhtml and footers

S Douglas19-Mar-07 3:40

S Douglas

19-Mar-07 3:40

Bradml wrote:
but how did you stumble apon that post?

It's this strange thing called searching, yea I know weird eh? I knew the answer was out there in the great intermess. Just a matter of finding it (and learning to work with CP search functionality).

I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

Re: xhtml and footers

JimmyRopes17-Dec-06 17:28

JimmyRopes

17-Dec-06 17:28

I don't know why I made the assumption you were using tableless design when I suggested using "clear both". I don't know if it works inside tables.

Try using the [tfoot] tag insteaad of [tr][td] for your footer information.

I'm on-line therefore I am.

JimmyRopes

Re: xhtml and footers

Jeremy Falcon18-Dec-06 4:18

Jeremy Falcon

18-Dec-06 4:18

JimmyRopes wrote:
I don't know why I made the assumption you were using tableless design when I suggested using "clear both". I don't know if it works inside tables.

I don't have to use tables, I was just showing the layout I was after using the old school way. If I can get a footer that doesn't overlap and works in all or most major browsers I'll be happy to dump tables and HTML.

Jeremy Falcon
"It's a good thing to do and a tasty way to do it." - Wilford Brimley[^]

Re: xhtml and footers

JimmyRopes16-Dec-06 20:16

JimmyRopes

16-Dec-06 20:16

try "clear: both;"

as in [div styles="clear: both;" /]

I'm on-line therefore I am.

JimmyRopes

Re: xhtml and footers

Bradml16-Dec-06 20:31

Bradml

16-Dec-06 20:31

That's only with floats

Brad
Australian

"Keyboard? Ha! I throw magnets over the RAM chips!" - peterchen

Re: xhtml and footers

JimmyRopes16-Dec-06 20:35

JimmyRopes

16-Dec-06 20:35

Bradml wrote:
That's only with floats

Isn't that what he is talking about; floating elements?

I'm on-line therefore I am.

JimmyRopes

Re: xhtml and footers

Bradml16-Dec-06 21:40

Bradml

16-Dec-06 21:40

with absolute position....

Brad
Australian

"Keyboard? Ha! I throw magnets over the RAM chips!" - peterchen

Re: xhtml and footers

JimmyRopes16-Dec-06 22:02

JimmyRopes

16-Dec-06 22:02

Ask Jeremy! It was just a suggestion.

I'm on-line therefore I am.

JimmyRopes

Re: xhtml and footers

Jeremy Falcon17-Dec-06 6:00

Jeremy Falcon

17-Dec-06 6:00

In the end I just want a footer that doesn't overlap. I don't really care how it's implemented as long as its supported by most major browsers. TIA btw.

Jeremy Falcon
"It's a good thing to do and a tasty way to do it." - Wilford Brimley[^]

remember me on same computer!!!

Ashish Porwal15-Dec-06 20:14

Ashish Porwal

15-Dec-06 20:14

i have created a website but i am facing problem to create option "remember password on same computer"
if anyone have idea or code to use the same option please send me.
thank you!!!

contact me: ashish.0619@gmail.com

Re: remember me on same computer!!!

MatrixCoder15-Dec-06 20:19

MatrixCoder

15-Dec-06 20:19

You would have to use a Session Cookie. See here

Re: remember me on same computer!!!

Guffa15-Dec-06 23:01

Guffa

15-Dec-06 23:01

Please don't cross post.

---
It's amazing to see how much work some people will go through just to avoid a little bit of work.

Anybody know how to upload video using ASP.NET?

mujin0315-Dec-06 17:14

mujin03

15-Dec-06 17:14

I want to upload some multimedia file to my website. Just like Youtube does. However, I searched google and didn't find any samples. It seems like there is a control called CSUpload Controls in .Net 2.0. But not sure whether it can load video file.

Re: Anybody know how to upload video using ASP.NET?

Bradml15-Dec-06 18:09

Bradml

15-Dec-06 18:09

I'm not too sure about ASP, but basically the way YouTube does it is:
You upload using the "files" input type (HTML).

They use php.

In php to get a file that was uploaded you call the global variable "$_FILES['filename']"

once they file passes a serious of security checks it is stored in a temporary directory. They then connect to Macromedia Flash encoder using PHP's command line abilities.

When it is encoded into flash it is stored on a server ready to be requested by TouTubers.

See:
Here for Uploading in PHP[^]
Here for PHP command line stuff[^]
Here for info on the Flash encoder[^]

Brad
Australian

"Keyboard? Ha! I throw magnets over the RAM chips!" - peterchen

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