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Tables was used for layout at the time that there were no alternatives. It's a hack to do layout without any tools for layout. It was very useful at that time, but that time is not now.
The default behaviour of a table is to adapt itself to it's contents, and it was left up to each browser to figure out how to do it, which resulted in that each browser does it a little bit different. This behaviour that has to be defeated completely when using them for layout by specifying an exact size on all the cells, but people did put up with that because the benefit was that it was possible to do layout, and there weren't any alternatives around.
Today there are alternatives. You can use html to structure the information and css to do the layout. That allows you to separate the information from the presentation, which benefits load times, maintainence, search engine indexing and accessibility.
The table tag still has a purpose, of course, and that is it's original purpose; to make tables.
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Sweet, sweet table making time!
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Ahh... the nostalgia... Yes, there's where the table based layouts belong... 
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Guffa said; "The default behaviour of a table is to adapt itself to it's contents, and it was left up to each browser to figure out how to do it, which resulted in that each browser does it a little bit different"
Good point.
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JimmyRopes
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I've written a custom web combobox component that supports explict options in the web-page as one way of suppling choices for the drop-down list:
<cbo:ComboBox runat="server" id="ComboBox">
<asp:ListItem Value="1" Text="one" />
<asp:ListItem Value="2" Text="two" />
<asp:ListItem Value="3" Text="three" />
<asp:ListItem Value="4" Text="four" Selected />
</cbo:ComboBox>
Aestheticly, it would be much nicer, and easier for the users of my component, if the items could be defined as:
<cbo:ListItem Value="1" Text="one" />
How can I do this? Can custom web components be nested?
Thanks.
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Hi all,
I want to create a tooltip window much like IntelliTXT on this web site..where I can have more links and some animation...
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Check out http://fijiwebdesign.com/content/view/82/77/
More on http://www.java2s.com/Code/JavaScript/Ajax-Layer/TextFieldToolTip.htm
-Shefali
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Hi
Sorry for long post.
I have an edit box, and next to it, two elements, a tick, and a cross. The idea is the user types in the edit box, clicks the 'tick' image when they're happy, or the 'cross' when they want to cancel their change.
But...I also have an onChange event on the edit box, so if they click on another edit box (I have loads of these - not my design - honest!), the new value is stored. I *have* to store the value (via ajax) after each edit. Everything works fine, or it looks to work fine. They enter data, click the tick, it saves. They enter data, click on another edit box, it saves. But if they click the cross, hey - it saves. The onChange event is called on the editBox before I can respond to the onClick event on either of the two images.
So, they click on the cross, the onChange event is called on the edit box, I save the data. WRONG. Is there anyway I can tell that they have clicked teh cross before the onChange event is fired, or in the onChange event, check to see if the onClick event of the cross is pending?
Any help much appreciated.
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Malcolm Smart wrote: Is there anyway I can tell that they have clicked teh cross before the onChange event is fired, or in the onChange event, check to see if the onClick event of the cross is pending?
No. And even if you could, it'd still fall apart if they tried to tab over to the cross link (stopping briefly on the tick in the process). (You did make them tabstops, right?)
One way you could make this work is to postpone actually saving the data until they've started editing another field (or clicked the tick icon, of course). Alternately, you could store the previous value, and change the cross link behavior to just store that, overwriting whatever was previously stored. Another way would be on the backend - keep track of the previous value for each field, add a method of rolling back to it.
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But I never get the onClick event for the cross img element. I just get the onchange for the edit box and nothing else. I have tried returning true and false (not at the same time  ) ) to the onchange event hoping the click event would bubble and the click event of the cross would fire but no such luck. I am already holding the old value but have no idea when the user clicks on the cross!
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Why do you save with the onchange event? If it is because the user will lose data if they save anything else at the same time?
Create a temporary database that you can save information in.
Brad
Australian
By contacting your lawyer you negate the right to sue me.
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The save isn't an issue. The issue is I am 'missing' or 'losing' the onclick event of the element because the onChange event of the edit control is being fired. I would like to capture both events. If I don't catch the onChange event, I get the onClick event of the . If I catch the onChange event, I don't get the onClick event. I need both.
Regards
Angel
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I see. Well does it work if you double click?
Brad
Australian
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Hi,
I'm trying to read the content of a file which I've put in bin\debug.
So I define StreamReader sr=new StreamReader("file.csv"); but I get this error "Could not find file '\file.csv'".Do you know what the problem is? Ty
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gabriel123456 wrote: Do you know what the problem is?
- Wrong path.
- Wrong forum (try C# maybe, or ASP.NET if this is at least tangently related to a web app).
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Your using Visual Basic. Try that forum.
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MatrixCoder wrote: Your using Visual Basic.
Last time I looked, VB didn't look like that at all. It looks rather more like C#.
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Guffa wrote: It looks rather more like C#.
Yea, thats what I thought.
Brad
Australian
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hi i have genrate a table dynamically with javascript and each row contains a input textbox control
with ID and i want to loop through and access the value of each textbox at button click.
for (i; i < Table.rows.length; i++)
{
var oRow = Table.rows(i);
???????????? need control value here is there any way to get control here
like oRow.Cells[0].......
}
thanks for your help..
Nav.
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could you post the code u used to generate the table here, so i can better understand how you application works.
Brad
Australian
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can you please let me know how i can get the value of a control which is in TD section of a table i can access the table with javascript and all its row but dont know how i can get control from cell.
sorry cant post the code hope you not mind.
thanks
Nav.
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Sorry one more question, is the Text box in a form? if so it is referenced like this:
form_name.input_name.value
Brad
Australian
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From memory (from an old bit of code...)
var numOfRows = Table.childNodes.length
var myRow = Table.childNodes[0];
var numOfCells = myRow.childNodes.length;
var myCell = myRow.childNodes[0];
var numOfControlsInCell = myCell.childNodes.length;
var myControl = myCell.childNodes[0];
Regards
Angel
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hi guys,
Im developing a web application sing Mambo CMS.
the problem am having is that i cannot seem to get the update database code right.
when a member is registering i would like to update multiple tables of the mysql database simultaneoulsly, please provide for me a proper syntax to do this
squth!
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you have to do it one table at a time. But do u want to insert information or update what is already there?
Brad
Australian
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