November 2021 Update As this answer is now 10+ years old my recommendation would be to leave this tag out altogether, unless you must support old legacy browsers. October 2015 Update This answer was posted several years ago and now the question really should be should you even consider using the X-UA-Compatible tag on your … Read more
Just a test which is working fine. #parent{ width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; } #child{ width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow-y: scroll; padding-right: 17px; /* Increase/decrease this value for cross-browser compatibility */ box-sizing: content-box; /* So the width will be 100% + 17px */ } Working Fiddle JavaScript: Since the scrollbar width differs in different … Read more
Have a look at wkhtmltopdf . It is open source, based on webkit and free. We wrote a small tutorial here. EDIT( 2017 ): If it was to build something today, I wouldn’t go that route anymore. But would use http://pdfkit.org/ instead. Probably stripping it of all its nodejs dependencies, to run in the browser.
When you make a POST request, you have to encode the data that forms the body of the request in some way. HTML forms provide three methods of encoding. application/x-www-form-urlencoded (the default) multipart/form-data text/plain Work was being done on adding application/json, but that has been abandoned. (Other encodings are possible with HTTP requests generated using … Read more
Try using: <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; url=http://example.com/” /> Note: Place it in the <head> section. Additionally for older browsers if you add a quick link in case it doesn’t refresh correctly: <p><a href=”http://example.com/”>Redirect</a></p> Will appear as Redirect This will still allow you to get to where you’re going with an additional click.
Here’s what happens when a browser loads a website with a <script> tag on it: Fetch the HTML page (e.g. index.html) Begin parsing the HTML The parser encounters a <script> tag referencing an external script file. The browser requests the script file. Meanwhile, the parser blocks and stops parsing the other HTML on your page. … Read more
The simplest thing to do in the absence of a framework that does all the cross-browser compatibility for you is to just put a call to your code at the end of the body. This is faster to execute than an onload handler because this waits only for the DOM to be ready, not for … Read more
Here’s a page describing the differences (basically you can put html into a <button></button>) And another page describing why people avoid <button></button> (Hint: IE6) Another IE problem when using <button />: And while we’re talking about IE, it’s got a couple of bugs related to the width of buttons. It’ll mysteriously add extra padding when … Read more
Set selected=”selected” for the option you want to be the default. <option selected=”selected”> 3 </option>
Warning! This answer is too old and doesn’t work on modern browsers. I’m not the poster of this answer, but at the time of writing this, this is the most voted answer by far in both positive and negative votes (+1035 -17), and it’s still marked as accepted answer (probably because the original poster of … Read more