HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the predominant markup language used for creating web pages. In modern web pages, HTML is used to markup the contents of the website, while CSS and Javascript are used to define the styles and behaviors respectively.
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“View Newsletter Online” link to be visible in online version?
When you receive an HTML or Text Newsletter, you'll often see a "Having trouble viewing Newsletter? View Online" link at the very top of the email. When you click on it your web browser fires up and ...
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Is it good practice to only accept numeric keystrokes in number-only fields?
I have a form that only takes in numbers as it represents a dollar amount. Currently, the form only accepts numerical keystrokes. Is this good practise?
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Question on fluid web design
There are 2 ways in which we can implement a fluid design (one that would adjust itself to the screen size on which it is viewed on);
Approach 1: We can just use the available browser size (or ...
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How to correctly encode a leaderboard with a gap in HTML
I want to display a leaderboard like so:
1 - John 232342
2 - Mary 45234
3 - Luke 234
59 - You 45
It's an ordered list but I can't make an ordered list that jumps from 3 to an arbitrary ...
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nice way to display data row by row
I often see many tutorials about how to make forms pretty, but I don't see as many showing how you can display the result in a pretty way. I mean, when the data has been input and you'd like to ...
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Javascript and 508
I was wondering if someone has a article of common practices a web developer should practice while using Javascript on a web page, keeping in mind the web page should be 508 compliant. I saw some ...
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Advice on website design layout
I have a website that has a menu at the top. On some pages there is a sub menu that is at the left hand side, but this is only on some pages. How then would be best to design the page layout given ...
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How do users expect dropdown navigation to work?
This question is in regards to expected behavior with drop-down navigation in web pages.
This is part of an email I just got from a client: ("Admissions" is one of the top level navigation links)
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All my users are from Afghanistan or how to get users to correctly fill out a form
I have a website with a form users fill out to create an account. Following advice from this forum and other places I am asking for only the minimum required information to create an account ie. ...
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What happens when the focus rectangle isn't clear?
I get a lot of clients that comment that the focus box isn't obvious enough in some browsers. Is it common and good practice to make it more obvious? If so, how exactly do people do this?
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User Profile Dashboard Design
I am trying to create a user profile dashboard for an application I am building using CakePHP.
However, I am struggling to wrap my brain around a good layout/design for it. Basically, I am looking to ...
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Does the average user understand the standard HTML multiple select box?
If I want the user to select one or more items the HTML symantecally correct form element would be <select multiple>.
So the code would be:
<select multiple id="sel">
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What should be the default option of a required dropdown list?
Given that there is no logically default animal from the list of animals below, what should be the "Default Value" below, according to best practice?
<label for="animal">Animal ...
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Best error message to display when too many users logging onto web system
I have a website that started experiencing issues when too many people are trying to log into the website at the same time (usually at the start of the business day). Are there some examples of or ...
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HTML templates for web applications [closed]
There are a lot of sites with free templates for homepages. These are often too simple for web applications, which have sometimes a lot of deeper nested content.
For example. An application view ...
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Recommended button sizes on web pages
What are the current usability guidelines for the size of buttons (or anything clickable) on web pages?
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Should Printer-Friendly button open a new browser window ?
Reading Common web app usability gotchas? I felt guilty when I read that using a target = "_blank" is a bad thing.
I have developed a small web application that format Stack Exchange questions in a ...
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Improve the User Interface of Website [closed]
So I am using Visual Studio 2008, ASP.net 3.5, with the basic toolkit provided.
Now I have made the GUI with a lot of functionality but the design is very basic and looks too old.
I need to give it ...
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Should every page in a site have a totally unique H1?
I agree that every page in a site should have a unique TITLE, and that every page should have one and only one H1 element, but should the text of each H1 be completely unique too?
Instinctively one ...
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XHTML / HTML / CSS or HTML5 and CSS3 [closed]
Should I learn HTML / XHTML / CSS first, or should I just dive into HTML5 and CSS3? I am a bit confused about this process. I do know basic HTML / CSS, but am planning on re-learning everything these ...
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Pros/Cons of PSD mockups vs. HTML mockups
I've read some articles (this one and this one) recently that are opening my eyes to HTML mockups as opposed to the usual PSD mockups.
In the article they cite certain pros:
Changes are a lot ...
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Proper usage of fieldset / legend tags
I'm wondering what the suggested usage of <fieldset>s are on a webpage.
For example, on a simple page with just one form (one set of inputs) is it still recommended to use a fieldset? Or should ...
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Best UI for an HTML table. [closed]
I frequently need to show tabular data and I want all the magic . . . sorting columns, pagination, etc. I prefer to use columns where you click on the name of the column and the sorting is done for ...
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Whats a better user experience: A scrollable table or a full size table allowing the browser window to do scrolling?
Whats a better user experience:
A scrollable table by using overflow css settings in a DIV?
A full size table allowing the browser window to do scrolling?
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What is the best way to center images in websites? [closed]
Every time I work on a new project I do not have any problems to center the text using "text-align: center" to center the text, but I have never seen a similar code to center images so I always have ...
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Coding Best Practices as UX?
I've been stating in most of my recent contracts that meeting HTML coding Best Practices (what's outputted to the browser) is an important part of UX.
This would include things like Semantics (using ...
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Is Markdown Friendly Enough for Non-Technical Users?
The Problem
I love using markdown to write questions, answers, posts, comments etc. That being said, I am a very technical, detail oriented, programmer type. However, I am working on a CMS of sorts ...
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Is there ever a good reason to force opening a new browser window?
As a power web user, I know how to use my browser and it drives me nuts when web sites force me to open a new page. My mother, by contrast, just gets confused when this happens. At the end of a web ...
