Questions tagged [html]
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the predominant markup language used for creating web pages.
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doesn't inline-styling represent separation of concerns concept the best way if you think that you're separating the HTML element from other elements?
I know that Inline CSS styling gets so much hate from many developers, and I understand that some of this hate is justified by the following facts:
Inline styles increase page size as they don't get ...
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Identifying states when using state machine to validate a form field
Scenario is simple, a password field with few validation rules.
The states I came up with are
default ( when the form loads or reset button is pressed)
filled ( should this even be a state ?)
valid ( ...
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Filter Gallery Images based on dropdown selection values
I currently making a "visual plan builder" with php-mysql, ajax and jquery
Using multiple layers (z-index) I generate a visual plan with the following dropdown list values:
Base Product - ...
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I'm trying to write something that will fill out an Australia Post Declaration Form [closed]
I've got basic proficiency in PHP, JavaScript, html, and SQL. I also use Postman little a bit. I hope a solution to my problem can be found within those skills, but I'm willing to learn a new language ...
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Convert RTF to HTML when it's saved to the database or when it's rendered?
Users have the ability to enter and save text in a rich text editor which is eventually stored in a database and then rendered on a site.
Is it better to convert the RTF to HTML when it's stored to ...
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Setting width/height of unknown images for lazy loading
I have a site where users upload images & can all be viewed on a single page by other users. I want to lazy load images as the user scrolls instead of loading all initially. This is easy enough, ...
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What are downsides to opening local html files in the browser?
Let's say you have a scenario where you want to build a simple web stack (html/css/js) prototype to share with someone.
I am a little unclear on whether or not I want/need to use a small web-server to ...
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How would you have a fallback for html insert when the html has changed?
Given a website, our customers will pick a spot on their website and we record an xpath to that location.
Our software is DNS integrated, similar to cloudflare, and we manipulate the origin's html ...
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How good of an idea is extending HTMLElement
In the new era of web components MDN (and probably the standard) suggests extending the HTMLElement class.
For a long time we've strayed away from doing that, what has changed now for this to become ...
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How can you multithread an html parser [ in C++ and similar languages ]?
Ive done two HTML parsers.
Done with Regular Expressions [that accounted for nesting]. It was quick, but error prone.
Done by evaluating Character by Character through switches. Here was the basic ...
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Is it possible to prevent tech scammers from editing bank webpages?
In a refund tech scam, tech scammers use Chrome Developer Tools to edit the HTML directly on the victim's bank webpage through a Remote Desktop (Teamviewer, AnyDesk, etc) to fool their victim into ...
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Html development with partial views
Is it a standard practice to develop a HTML project using partial views.
Consider a project where the design team will develop the HTMLs based on the requirement & then the backend team will work ...
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What are some of the best ways to create single page websites with dynamic content?
I'm expirementing with creating a website as a IT Ticketing system. This website has a top nav and a side nav. I want the content area to change depending on the link clicked. I've managed to get the ...
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Unique Colors for Chart Data
This is likely in the wrong section but I'm curious if there is a good way to select unique and distinct colors for plotting data on charts? My current method is to hard code a set plot limit with ...
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Whatever happened to HTTP SEARCH? [closed]
It seems 5 years ago there was a proposal for a HTTP SEARCH request, but it does not appear to have been adopted and it not widely supported. Are there any factual documents or citations which shed ...
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Should we check if the primary key exists if rendering a collection fetched from database?
I have got an argument with my colleagues about this. IMO It's common practice that you don't need to check if an id exists or not before rendering it.
So here's an example.
This is what my ...
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Hidden Input Fields for POST - Security
I have seen some posts on the subject of hidden input fields for use with postbut none were able to answer my question.
I have a delete button tied to a user in a table. The delete button uses a ...
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Angular 8: Mixing Business and Presentation logic
I was reading about the history of Microsoft and Webforms. How people strayed away from Webforms because it mixes business logic with display/presentation logic. So when reading Angular 8, and seeing ...
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Turning complex XML (or content tree) into HTML - How to do it (in Java)?
I have a deep object content tree that I transform into a XML using JAXB and a small self written API on top.
But now I want to create a static HTML site that has basically the same content (and ...
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Which components of an HTML Element, can I assume will be static over the course of its lifetime?
This is a question for people who are familiar with how HTML typically is built and behaves on webpages.
Backstory and requirements
I am building an HTML tracker with a C++/Qt backend. I am trying ...
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How to store message content in a webservice
I am building a service responsible for sending email/sms communications. The service receives a request that contains information necessary to build an email/sms template and the recipient ...
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Is JavaScript added and executed in parsing or in rendering?
As far as I know, each webpage is created in a two stage process, initiated by a webserver request and ended in a webserver response:
Parsing: markup (Say HTML) is executed as is, or created by ...
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Supervisor wants unconventional web site, how to resolve this
I started a new job with a greenfield site in Angular to create a website from an old desktop app. I gave a presentation guided by my Supervisor who wants game style top icon menus to cut down on ...
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Maintaining a static website using an HTML preprocessor [closed]
I have a static website with lots of similar pages. The site is very simple, basically just some information for me and a few other people. I'd basically like to spend as little time as possible ...
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handle file downloads from the server
I am wondering if the following would be a good technique to allow user to download files from the server in the below scenario:
Info about the scenario:
User logs into a system (HTML,JQuery and CSS,...
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Website Multi Languuage [closed]
I have one website and the website are now in HTML, that actually is structured:
domain.com = English
domain.com/es = Spanish
domain.com/de = Germany
I copied the HTML of English page to Spanish ...
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Is it bad practice to leave hidden elements in the dom?
I'm looking for perspectives from other web/ui developers.
I'm a UI developer and my company requires that I use components built by another team within the company. That team has developed some ...
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Rendering custom markdown format: client side or server side?
I am working on a project on both iOS/Android/macOS/Linux (Windows is optional, and surely no website version). There are a lot of related webpage-like data and the team decided to store the data in a ...
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I generated XHTML with XSLT, what are my options with HTML 5?
I have some older xsl transformations that I will modify soon. They generated XHTML code from a home-grown XML format. Since I am touching these XSL files anyway, I am wondering how I will deal with ...
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How can I prevent a user from editing my code in their browser?
Description
I'm designing a Node.JS application (more like a full website). The app will send five JavaScript files and will have <script> tags linking them together.
Question
How can I prevent ...
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How to collaberate UI Team & Development Team for smooth development process over time to adapt changes in design?
The UI team deliver the HTML files to the development team.
Developers code PHP on html files to make the website.
But later we face a lot of changes in design. The designing team makes the changes in ...
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How to white label my website in php
I have a website that follows the following structure:
www.example.com/city1
www.example.com/city2
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Programmatically we change the logo which is hard-coded in a specific config file for city 1, ...
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How can I turn my CRUD database application into a REST application?
I may have gotten myself confused, when reading CRUD vs REST and how they are similar, so I wanted to explicitly ask: can I turn my CRUD application into a REST application, when I have a specific ...
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How to do BDD for CRUD?
I want to understand how Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) can be applied to building CRUD applications.
I have read a lot on the subject but I just don't get how I'm supposed to apply it. I learn ...
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Is there a rule of thumb when it comes to the “name” attribute?
Since there is things like BEM in naming conventions for HTML class attributes, does the name attribute have anything of that sort?
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Is my approach to dynamically populating web content ok?
I'm porting my JavaFX application to a web based version, which I'm new to. In my web app the user can search the server database for records.
At present I've chosen to present the records in a ...
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Prefixing a number with + on html inputs
When asking for positive number inputs on html, is it valid to allow + on the textbox? Like +42? Surely the + sign gets removed during server-side processing. But will allowing + be fine on the html ...
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If either html+css or an image can achieve my desired decoration, which one should I prefer to use?
For example, to create flow indicator like:
Step 1 > Step 2 > Step 3
I can either:
1.Use html+css
.concave{
border-left:1em solid transparent;
border-top:1em solid orange;
border-bottom:...
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Are there standards for handling card swipers in applications?
I'm in the middle of creating a web application for a client, and he wants me to integrate magnetic card swipers so his office staff can quickly swipe a card, and load up details for specific patients ...
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Showing confidential to a customer info without having him to create an account: GET or POST approach?
There's a website where a person should pay to get some service/product. After a person has made a reservation/product by paid for it, I want to allow him to track the progress without having to or ...
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Why is the ampersand (&) a HTML Entity?
I understand the rationale behind why most of the HTML character Entities were created, but I don't understand the purpose behind the ampersand HTML entity. & contains more bits than a & ...
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Is there a best practice for naming class selectors for identification alone
Is there a best practice for naming class selectors for identification alone?
For example, for defining a single amount field with action button, we end up creating several div containers and div ...
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Angular template variable reference [closed]
Here is a weird problem in Angular:
<input #pin1 type="password">
<p>You entered: {{pin1.value}}</p>
If you type something in <input>, the <p>'s content will not change ...
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Better alternative to having a html form with select input on every row in table
I have a web application (laravel) with a page which presents a large number of rows (financial transactions) in a HTML table. On each row I want to have a drop-down (select input) allowing the user ...
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Do I need to put a license in my website's HTML and/or CSS?
I am making a website for a competition my school is taking part in, however I am not on the team and am not receiving any compensation (save for better references :P). The only condition I have set ...
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PHP : Better way to print html in if-else conditions
Please refer the following two forms of the same code
First:
<?php if(some_condition){
?>
<li><a target="_blank" href="example.com/channel1/" class="xyz">If content</a>&...
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Consuming Web API in website with role based views
I understand Web API. I understand websites, how they call a web API and all the good stuff. My question is, how do you control the user view in the website consuming the API, based on the API ...
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Development Of Scriptable Webpage Served As XML And Parsed As HTML
In short, this question is about the cross-browser-compatibility-ness of a way to serve a HTML page as XML. I am interested in serving a web page as XML to be interpreted as HTML for increased CSS ...
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HTML and iframe organization for dashboards [closed]
I need to build a small website for my ops team that will have a series of iframes pointing to a couple of Kibana graphics. The website will have, lets say, 4 links, each pointing to a a specific ...
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Best practices for creating multiple HTML buttons that are used for a similar purpose
I realize this may be subjective, but I don't see any clear-cut place for asking questions on good software design principals. I'm sure there are some software patterns and anti-patterns I should be ...
