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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Is ­ safe now?
Is it safe to use ­ now? I remember there were problems with this entity, such as rendering it everywhere (instead of only when the web browser decides to split a word), or splitting a word ...
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Forbidden 403 error on Google AdSense requests
I have created a new website and have set some ads. For some unknown reason, FireBug tells me that I get 403 errors on Google Adsense requests. I have checked my AdSense account and it does not block ...
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CSS rounded corners around image [closed]
I have tried several ways to get rounded corners around images without success. The best I got was using the image as background and applying the round corners style to the div as in this picture.
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How to best format your HTML to help Google display your websites navigation with the search result for your site in Google Search? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
Look at the first result for "smashing magazine" in the image below. See how Google ...
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HTML special character (glyph) looking not the same in different browsers
I am using an html crown in my website, character code is ♛, but this looks different in the browsers.
Firefox 6.0 -> different
Chrome 13.0 -> different
IE 9.0, Safari 5.1, Opera ...
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What is a good default font family for any IE8/9, Chrome & Firefox?
I have users complaining that fonts are not clear on some browseres (especially displaying data in grids...I'm using Trebuchet MS per default of asp.netmvc3 css site styles)
Q: What is a good overall ...
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Can I spread 2 cells across 3 rows in an HTML table?
I know its possible to spread 1 cell across multiple rows using the rowspan attribute, however is it possible to spread 2 cells evenly across multiple rows, without resorting to a nested table?
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Where can I find resources for best coding practices in web development?
You'd figure that this would be an easy topic to google, but unfortunately I've been looking for a couple weeks and have yet to find really anything that I'm looking for.
The problems I'm running ...
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What's the best way to put invisible for user but indexable link?
I have several sites on the same topic but still competitive to each other. I would like to put cross links on these sites in text so they won't be visible/"clicakble" but still indexable by search ...
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Webpage Post Submits vs AJAX?
Which is better and why?
I can see where a site that works 100% in AJAX might optimize a bit better, due to not having to reload the page on each click.
But I am a huge fan of the big submit button ...
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Website has “lagging” effect. Causes? Tips and tricks to fix?
So I have this site here which has major performance issues. Scrolling is very slow, hover effects have a bit of lag and other similar issue. Unfortunately right now I am working off a cheap host so I ...
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Are there any good reasons to avoid using the noscript tag in an HTML5 header?
I need an efficient and aesthetically-pleasing way to gracefully degrade site appearance for users with Javascript disabled and, while I am not aware of any problem with adding a link to an ...
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404 page not showing URL
My 404 page (/404.php) works, it's sending the proper headers (404 - Not found)
But the thing is, it's not giving the link that caused it (eg example.com/thisisnon-existant.htm) but instead it's ...
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Why don't people embed style and scripts in the HTML?
I know this sounds like a silly question, but hear me out. These days, there are a lot of 'media aggregator' tools that will take your globs of javascript (laden with coffee and underscores and ...
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CSS sprite, what html tag to use
I am thinking to switch to CSS Sprite for my images.
The main problem is I need something compatible with alt attribute. (Seo-purpouse)
What Can I use? The first think I thought was to use a standard ...
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SEO of <span> in <h1> header
Does the <span> element have any SEO side-effects? Are there any semantic preferences between the following two or parsing differences between search engines?
Clean <h1>:
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How to make Google recognize language for a multilingual website?
A few weeks ago I implemented a translation functionality for my company website. The website now offers content in french and English and I took the time to look on various guides on the internet on ...
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Check for duplicate 'id' values in a HTML page
I am developing a web application and I would like to check for duplicate id values in a HTML page. I am running the application on my local machine.
There is a way to do that?
P.S.: I am using ...
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Are there any other tags that have the href attribute except <a>?
I hope this is a suitable question for pro webmasters. Are there any othertags that have the href attribute except <a>? If yes, please tell me which. Thanks!
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Since when is layering possible in Websites?
I'm asking because I remember a time when it wasn't possible
to create a div box on another one, and I was wondering when was it introduced.
It's probably a matter of CSS version, isn't it?
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Wordpress vs Clean html/css
When it comes to designing/coding presentational websites, with static content and few pages.. let's say, between 5 and 20. Would you go with wp, design a custom theme and update with content, or ...
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understanding technology that news websites use
I am trying to understand the technology which many news websites use
please have a look at this website
http://www.shritimes.com/
if you click any news item then the particular thing gets zoomed ...
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Personal Web Page
I recently got a domain and am considering hosting a personal web page. I did some research and narrowed my options down to either Google AppEngine or GitHub pages to host my website.
The website is ...
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Clearing floats? Or something else?
I'm working on this website for my dad:
http://smartcampusdeals.com/TendonAiD/index3.html
and the three columns (with the stick cartoony people) extend past the container. Right now, I have the ...
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Do new lines in the title tag affect SEO?
I is common thing that if you have some login that creates the title tag content to finish with several new lines in it. For example:
<title>
Title |
Category |
My Site Name
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Prevent HTML files downloaded from getting copied from that particular system to another system or getting the script modified?
How to prevent my HTML files downloaded to a particular system from getting copied from that particular system to another system or getting the script modified?
Is there any tool or method out? Well, ...
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mathML/HTML symbol for mathematical vector
Is there a way to make something like the image below using text-based HTML/mathML. My concern is with the arrows over the letter v. This is for iOS (webKit); I'd rather not use mathJAX or the like ...
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What's the correct terminology when referring to the “home” page when logged in and logged out?
Struggling with some terminology here.
Let's use Twitter as an example. If you are logged in, you have a completely different "home" page from when you are not logged in. How would you refer to each ...
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input type=“file” default language is system language?
I have a question, let's say I have <input type="file" name="image" />. Will the text of the button will change if user will have different language as his system default one? If so than how can ...
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Buttons in pure CSS3 or use image sprite
I want to know if it would be better to make an image for the buttons that I use, or can I get away with pure CSS. Ill give you the code.
html:
<ul id="buttons-dev">
<li ...
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Can i export a wordpress site to html?
I want to export a wordpress site with themes and images to html format like we can do in blogspot. Is there a plugin or a tool for the same.
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Should I jump straight into HTML 5 and CSS 3 from minimum knowledge of HTML?
I first learned HTML a long time ago, from the Visual Quickstart guide in 1999, HTML 4 for the World Wide Web. Though I have a grasp of fundamental concepts of HTML, my knowledge of CSS is woefully ...
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Is it possible to make all html links to share the same title?
The thing is I have a table containing ~2000 rows where each row contain a link that has the same title e.g.
<a id="1" title="A very long string common to all my links that i would like to have ...
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As a beginner, I would like to know which should be the markup language to startup with [closed]
I am a beginner in Web Designing.
For sure a CMS like Joomla (Joomla 3.1, now) is very useful for one who doesn't care about coding.
But...
I know for sure that the ability of coding really helps a ...
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HTML favicon wont show on google chrome
I am making a HTML page that is unpublished and that I just started. The first thing I wanted to do was add a favicon to appear next to the title. I'm using google chrome and I noticed that other ...
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How and where to place - css, html and images in email to make it a HTML email? [closed]
How and where to place - css, html and images in email to make it a HTML email?
I have seen many advertising emails in my inbox and I am curious to know how does the email body display the HTML.
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Site Structure - practices
I just started working for a company and they're asking me for ways to improve the overall site design. One of the things that keeps standing out to me is their extremely odd internal file structure ...
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How to block certain pages/files of a web domain?
How do I make certain pages only viewable by me? For example, let's say I own mydomain.com, and I want to be the only one that can see mydomain.com/mypage.php.
I tried changing the permissions of ...
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Which content or HTTP status should return unused domain?
We've recently bought couple of domains but the content of the domains is still under development.
Which content should we upload to the domains to tell search engines "There is currently nothing, ...
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Can search engines see HTML elements hidden by CSS? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How bad is it to use display: none in CSS?
I was wondering if search engines can read <a> elements with display:none.
Is it true? Can search engines see elements ...
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Domain masking emergency
I would never normally do this, but 1and1 have been experiencing a "glitch" with their system that means you can't add new external domains. It's pretty shocking, to be honest, and unfortunately my ...
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Updating a News pages written in html
I was wondering how to update a page with new stuff like a new news article or something. (The Website is html based). The only thing I could think of is by uploading and replacing the whole .html ...
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Is there any downside to using <embed> with Flash content?
I've recently learned that HTML5 now officially supports the <embed> tag. With that in mind, is there any reason not to just use it to embed Flash content into HTML5? Would there be any browser ...
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<body> and <div> issue
I have this meticulous problem,
I have a test html page whose body content is a single div tag.
I made the width and height of the div tag to 100% and colored the background red.
And I get ...
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Need Advice… Website is flash only
I currently have a website that is just one big flash file. It looks good and I am satisfied with it but I have been told that it may not ever rank very well in google and yahoo since it is only ...
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Why use flash to as content headings? Why not?
A large number of sites lately which use Flash to replace what would be simple HTML headings (h1, h2, h3). Some of them do it consistently for every header.
Why would you do this? What are the pros ...
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HTML (4.01) “lang” attribute: Best practice / Browser compat for where to place: HTML or BODY?
I'm just creating a new site from scratch. Each page in that site will have a default language and I'd like the markup to reflect it because there will be multiple languages.
I'm using HTML 4.01 and ...
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SEO HTML for plain html css website
This isn't really a programming question, but I couldn't think of a place where people can better answer my question then here.
I allways had a joomla website, for me it's good, but it's not very ...
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Trying to collect input values using hidden input fields
I have the following fields:
First Name: <input type="text" id="tFName" name="tFName" maxlength="50" />
Last Name: <input type="text" id="tLName" name="tLName" maxlength="50" />
Is ...
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How can I resolve HTML validation errors when using Facebook Comments?
I am trying to validate my document that has the following facebook comments tag
<fb:comments width="425"></fb:comments>
I am getting validation error:
Line 333, Column 45: Element ...
