Web Development

JavaScript Question about cursor position within TextBox

12-Dec-08 8:29

I'm sure there are plenty of people who can tell by looking at it...but what language am I looking at?

Re: table within table

Bharti Vermani14-Dec-08 17:23

Bharti Vermani

14-Dec-08 17:23

Hi,
I am using ITextSharp tables, in C#.

Thanks in advance

Leo Smith11-Dec-08 10:54

Leo Smith

11-Dec-08 10:54

I would like to know how to capture the current position of the cursor within a textbox, and then if necessary how to place within the text area to change the text insertion point.

Thanks,

Leo T. Smith
Program/Analyst Supervisor

The order of meta tages, stylesheets and javscript files

Brendan Vogt11-Dec-08 6:55

Brendan Vogt

11-Dec-08 6:55

Hi,

Just out of curiosity, does it matter in what order the javascript, stylesheets and metatags appear on the web page?

Is this acceptable:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Includes/Stylesheets/mystyles1.css" />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Includes/Stylesheets/mystyles2.css" />

The reason why I aqsk is because I have a master page which has styles needed across all web pages, but some pages require additional styles, and it seems as if .NET appends to the last one instead of grouping all the meta tags or stylesheets.

Brendan

Re: The order of meta tages, stylesheets and javscript files

Aman Bhullar13-Dec-08 22:31

Aman Bhullar

13-Dec-08 22:31

I don't think there is any issue with the Sequence

Re: The order of meta tages, stylesheets and javscript files

Roger Wright16-Dec-08 18:27

Roger Wright

16-Dec-08 18:27

The stylesheet order is relevant; they're called cascading style sheets because of that. You can declare a style for all pages first in the order, then apply styles to override the general style afterwards in each page, as needed. I believe that inline styles will add further refinement by temporarily overriding all page style sheets, but I've never tested that. You might experiment with that a bit, and if that works, it would be neater to do the page-specific styles inline and leave only those styles applicable to the entire site in the HEAD region.

"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

How to build IE Explorer addon to be embedded in an aspx page?

mohamadabdou10-Dec-08 23:26

mohamadabdou

10-Dec-08 23:26

Hi all,

I am working on a project where i need to download a file from a server to a specified local location and open it localy from its native application by clicking one button and then upload it by one click also without any interactive interface.

i found that the best way is to build a com object and embed it inside an aspx page to be used as an IE addon to communicate with local storage for the client.

so please can you provide help about how to do it. or if there is any other solution please help me it is urgent.

Mohamad Abdou

Re: How to build IE Explorer addon to be embedded in an aspx page?

Christian Graus11-Dec-08 10:17

Christian Graus

11-Dec-08 10:17

google for 'activeX', that's what the COM object is called. This will only work with IE, a Java applet will work with FF, etc.

Christian Graus

Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

Please help: Unable to automatically step into the server.

khuzwayom10-Dec-08 22:04

khuzwayom

10-Dec-08 22:04

Hi All

I have a webmethod that I would like to step through it, I call it from a web application.
I have a break point on the line that calls the webmethod and another one on the signature of the webthod in the webservice.

When I try to step into this web method I get the following error.
"Unable to automatically step into the server. The remote procedure could not be debugged. This usually indicates that debugging has not been enabled on the server."

Would you please assist me, I need know to get thi ssorted as soon as possible.

I just want to know how togo abount resolving this issue.

Thank you in advance.
MP

Re: Please help: Unable to automatically step into the server.

Paddy Boyd11-Dec-08 1:55

Paddy Boyd

11-Dec-08 1:55

You don't need the breakpoint on the line that calls the webmethod. Just attach to your process running your web service and stick a breakpoint in there.

Firefox ignoring positioning parts of CSS

47_MasoN_4710-Dec-08 10:28

10-Dec-08 10:28

Alright I have a .php document that lists the results from a query into a table, and has some controls above the table that allow me to make changes to entries if something isn't quite right. Here is the CSS:

body {
	background-color: #cccccc;
}

#changeStatus {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.6em;
	position: absolute;
	left: 2em;
	top: -10em;
}

#changeUser {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.6em;
	position: absolute;
	left: 28em;
	top: -10em;
}

#changeRequired {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.6em;
	position: absolute;
	left: 55em;
	top: -10em;
}

#changeRequested {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.6em;
	position: absolute;
	left: 86em;
	top: -10em;
}

#itlisttableadmin {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.8em;
	position: absolute;
	left: 0em;
	top: 8em;
}

th {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.8em;
	color: maroon;
}

td {
	font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 0.8em;
}

IE of course garbles it up just because it's IE, but it works just fine in Opera. Everything looks exactly how it should. When I open the page in Firefox, the font-family and font-size for the #change sections work fine, but the positioning doesn't. All the other parts of the CSS work.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? The CSS statement is called in the PHP like this echo "<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="admincss.css" />";.

Guffa11-Dec-08 7:01

11-Dec-08 7:01

I don't see any errors in the css code, but without knowing where the elements are in relation to the table it's hard to say if it makes sense or not...

Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

47_MasoN_4712-Dec-08 8:21

12-Dec-08 8:21

They are supposed to be above the table and across the top like this
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c305/m450n/opera.jpg
But in Firefox they look like this
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c305/m450n/firefox.jpg

Do you need to see any pieces of the PHP code itself or would that make a difference?

Guffa12-Dec-08 8:54

12-Dec-08 8:54

The identifiers are case sensetive, are the id:s of the elements exactly as you have written in the css? Some browsers ignore this rule and matches the identifiers as non case sensetive, which could explain why Opera applies the positioning but not Firefox.

I'm just guessing here... that's the best I can do without seeing any of the html code...

Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

47_MasoN_4712-Dec-08 9:11

12-Dec-08 9:11

Yes I checked the cases, just to be sure I changed them to all lowercase in both places. No change in either browser.

The odd thing is that I have another table setup (one for the admins and one for the users) that shows up perfectly in both Opera and Firefox. It's written the exact same way and I can't figure out why it is that the admin one won't work when the regular user one does.

Suggestions on what to try next?

Guffa12-Dec-08 9:15

12-Dec-08 9:15

47_MasoN_47 wrote:
Suggestions on what to try next?

Show some code.

Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

47_MasoN_4712-Dec-08 10:30

12-Dec-08 10:30

<?php

// Connecting to MySQL and selecting the xxx database
include 'it-opendb.php';

// Authentication - not secure...needs work
$adminPass = $_REQUEST['adminPass'];

if ($adminPass == "xxx") {

// Retrieve data from xxx database - xxx table
$request = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM xxx") or die(mysql_error());

// CSS statment
echo "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='admincss.css' />";

// Display retrieved data with while loop
echo "<div id='itlisttableadmin'>";
echo "<table border='1'>";
echo "<tr> <th>Case #</th> <th>User Name</th> <th>Date Requested</th> <th>Date Required</th> <th>Problem</th> <th>Status</th></tr>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($request)){
// Print out list of IT requests into a table
echo "<tr><td>";
echo $row['id'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['userName'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['dateRequested'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['dateRequired'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['problem'];
echo "</td><td>";
echo $row['status'];
echo "</td></tr>";

}

echo "</div>";

echo "<div id='changeStatus'>";
echo "<form id='adminStatus' action='adminStatus.php' method='post'>";
echo "<p><label for='case'>Case #: </label><input type='text' maxlength='4' name='case' id='case' /></p>";
echo "<p><label for='newStatus'>New Status: </label><input type='text' name='newStatus' id='newStatus' /></p>";
echo "<p><input type='submit' name='adminStatusSubmit' id='adminStatusSubmit' value='submit' />";
echo "</form>";
echo "</div>";

echo "<div id='changeUser'>";
echo "<form id='adminUser' action='adminUser.php' method='post'>";
echo "<p><label for='case'>Case #: </label><input type='text' maxlength='4' name='case' id='case' /></p>";
echo "<p><label for='newUser'>New User Name: </label><input type='text' name='newUser' id='newUser' /></p>";
echo "<p><input type='submit' name='adminUserSubmit' id='adminUserSubmit' value='submit' />";
echo "</form>";
echo "</div>";

echo "<div id='changeRequired'>";
echo "<form id='adminRequired' action='adminRequired.php' method='post'>";
echo "<p><label for='case'>Case #: </label><input type='text' maxlength='4' name='case' id='case' /></p>";
echo "<p><label for='newDRequired'>New Date Required: </label><input type='text' name='newDRequired' id='newDRequired' /></p>";
echo "<p><input type='submit' name='adminRequiredSubmit' id='adminRequiredSubmit' value='submit' />";
echo "</form>";
echo "</div>";

echo "<div id='changeRequested'>";
echo "<form id='adminRequested' action='adminRequested.php' method='post'>";
echo "<p><label for='case'>Case #: </label><input type='text' maxlength='4' name='case' id='case' /></p>";
echo "<p><label for='newDRequested'>New Date Requested: </label><input type='text' name='newDRequested' id='newDRequested' /></p>";
echo "<p><input type='submit' name='adminRequestedSubmit' id='adminRequestedSubmit' value='submit' />";
echo "</form>";
echo "</div>";

}

else {
echo "Wrong Password - Try again";
}
?>

Guffa12-Dec-08 10:54

12-Dec-08 10:54

Do you have a doctype, a html element, a head element and a body element, or is that all the code?

There are elements using implicit end tags as in XHTML, but the code is not at all valid XHTML.

There is no end tag for the table, which in itself may very well mess up the page.

Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

47_MasoN_4712-Dec-08 11:10

12-Dec-08 11:10

That is all the code. Since it's PHP I didn't think about having a doctype and whatnot.

I'll make some changes and just see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion, even if it doesn't fix it at least that's one more step making the code more valid.

Guffa12-Dec-08 11:33

12-Dec-08 11:33

47_MasoN_47 wrote:
That is all the code. Since it's PHP I didn't think about having a doctype and whatnot.

That means that what you are sending to the browser isn't even close to be a valid html document, or even an html document at all. The browsers makes their best to try to display it as html anyway, but you can't expect it to work properly.

To be an html document, the page has to have a html, head, title and body tag:

<html>
<head>
<title>Minimal</title>
</head>
<body>
A minimal html document.
</body>
</html>

Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

47_MasoN_4712-Dec-08 11:43