Google Maps v3 autocomplete search only works in IE - google-maps-api-3

I'm having a minor problem with an autocomplete search box. My application seems to work fine in IE, but when I try it in Firefox or Chrome, the search box doesn't function.
Unfortunately I'm pretty much of a newbie at mashups and javascript but I've managed to piece something together based on other examples from various sources. So forgive me if it's not the most elegant thing in the world! ;) It's a bit of a hodgepodge that I've been building in stages. I'm nervous about trying to streamline it much because I'm under a time constraint as it's a class project and don't want to mess up what already works. No doubt I have a lot to learn yet and I welcome suggestions. I just may not be able to apply them before I have to turn it in.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong with the autocomplete? Also, I noticed that the Map/Satellite view buttons no longer worked after I built in the search functionality. My solution to that was to disable/hide the buttons! If anyone has any hints on that too, let me know.
Here's where the app is located: http://webpages.charter.net/nymbli/displays.htm
For some reason, I'm not able to get my code to post here but please feel free to view the source code for the page.
Thanks in advance,
Anne

You have an extra <script type="text/javascript"> tag. Remove that and look at the source in Firefox. The HTML errors are highlighted. In general, never use IE for development. Use a real browser instead. ;-)

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Chrome extension: Eliminate CSS inheritance for content script

I'm asking this despite an essentially identical Q&A here just to see if the two years since might have yielded any insights.
I've been working on a Chrome extension that injects its own GUI into every web site the user visits. A problem arises with the look of the GUI because of inheritance: although it works well on most pages, it gets wonky (sometimes to the point of breaking) on others.
I've read of a much-needed CSS approach to this issue, but it doesn't seem to be supported in Google Chrome 29.0. The answer in the above-listed Q&A would be incredibly tedious to implement, as my HTML is dynamic and extensive and meant to be extensible; I'm trying to simplify the code for modularity's sake, not make it insanely complex. My content script does a lot of communicating (background & popup scripts), so I'm not sure that an iframe is practical. (Moreover, I've had absolutely no success with iframes in this context.)
Might anybody have come up with an ingenious solution that I've completely overlooked? Is there maybe an API for this sort of thing?
I recently created Boundary, a CSS+JS library to solve problems just like this. Boundary creates elements that are completely separate from the existing webpage's CSS.
Take creating a dialog for example. After installing Boundary, you can do this in your content script
var dialog = Boundary.createBox("yourDialogID", "yourDialogClassName");
Boundary.loadBoxCSS("#yourDialogID", "style-for-elems-in-dialog.css");
Boundary.appendToBox(
"#yourDialogID",
"<button id='submit_button'>submit</button>"
);
Boundary.find("#submit_button").click(function() {
// find() function returns a regular jQuery DOM element
// so you can do whatever you want with it.
// some js after button is clicked.
});
Elements within #yourDialogID will not be affected by the existing webpage.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any question.
https://github.com/liviavinci/Boundary

getting started with css in Dreamweaver cs6. Noob issue

I've just recently downloaded dreamweaver cs6. I've been following tutorials online, and I've run into a bit of a snag. I'm almost embarrassed asking this question, because I know I must be missing something obvious, but here it goes:
I'm following a tutorial right now on making a drop-down menu out of pure CSS. After implementing the first few lines of CSS code I was losing all of my sub menus in the drop-down. After pulling my hair out trying to figure out why for the better part of 2 hours, I finally preview in Firefox. (can't believe I didn't try earlier.)
It all seems to work fine in my browser, but I was wondering: Is there a way I can look at it in Dreamweaver? Its really inconvenient popping in and out of my browser everytime I want to check something. Like I said, I'm basically (not really basically, I just am) a complete noob at all things web-design. Thank you for your time.
Dreamweaver is just an IDE and it is not a browser. It doesn't execute :hover events and JavaScripts. You need to preview what you have done using F12 and check it out. :)
Short answer: no. At least, there's no reasonable expectation that you should. The problem with web-design is that the only real way to do things properly is to code by hand and preview it in a browser in another window - this does come as a culture-shock to "designers" who are used to WYSIWYG programs like Photoshop and InDesign, but the web is a completely different media where the underlying markup matters the most and is open to re-interpretation by browsers.
Dreamweaver has historically had good WYSIWYG rendering (thanks to their partnership with Opera years ago) but ultimately it's still not the best way.
I note that Microsoft's "Expression Blend for HTML/JS Applications" (there's a mouthful) does actually have first-class design-time WYSIWYG support because it works directly with an instance of IE, so you can test things like :hover and client scripts at design time - unfortunately it isn't suited to actual "web" sites - just "desktop" HTML, which is a shame.

CSS Guides for improving skills

Hi for the last month I have started to learn CSS.Fist thing I did is read everything i could find on www.w3school.com , after that I started reading CSS Mastery 2nd edition.I have build a couple of my own websites with succes but I'm still not happy with what I know , I even practiced with the new CSS3 elements.
I've seen alot of cool stuff build using css especialy on http://www.cssplay.co.uk/ but the only problem is the source code is not displayed and I don't know how the bloody things are.A good example is this:
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/tilt.html
And these is only one of the things that I've seen on this website and would like o learn how to build them.
So anyone know any other similar sites that ofer a good explanation on the more advanced stuff about css(not beginer stuff like building some drop down menus , rollover or hover efects )?Any advice is much apreciated thank you!
As already mentioned, tools like Firebug/Chrome Inspector are definite must haves.
I gained the most experience from real world problems with various different browsers. You make a site, it doesn't look so good in a particular browser. So you search on the internet. Find a solution and memorize it. I think that CSS in itself is a fairly simple tool, I class 'advanced' CSS as mastering the various techniques required to make sites work cross browser and in browsers like IE6/IE7+.
Also, Never give up with CSS, if you find a problem try and find an answer. Most of the time, there will be a simple solution.
In general, make sure your CSS is as simple as can be. I generally find that most complicated CSS can be replaced with relatively simple code, and find people get carried away and forget simple techniques to achieve similar solutions. One such problem, would be putting a button on the right hand side of a div, like below:
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| Button |
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You may see that some people will float the button right, adding more complexity than necessary. What ever happened to text-align:right? :-)
Finally, make sure you find a couple of blogs you like, for example http://csstricks.com and read them, taking note of new techniques. Try and master a '2 column layout', understand the difference between block/inline-block/inline, margin collapsing, tables, html forms, IE6/7 hasLayout, the list goes on. Most of which you will cover if you try and make a website template from scratch. Maybe start with an existing site and see if you can achieve the same layout.
I'm not sure with CSS how to learn it's pitfalls without encountering them mistakenly.
It looks like the stylesheet for the maze is located at: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/candr/tilt.css. You can use that against the source code to figure it out.
One of my favorite is A List Apart. Great articles, not only about CSS like I linked, but about web design and more.
Also HTML Dog has some nice CSS entries.
Then, you can find great CSS resources on the w3 site.

How to disable menu wrap and enable horizontal scrolling on window resize?

First of all I am not programmer nor web developer.
Someone made a website for me but can not contact him right now.
After 3 days of googling i decided to post this question.
How to enable gorizontal scrolling instead of menu and footer wrap on window resize?
I tried attributes such as: display:inline-block; white-space: nowrap (i think this is related to text only), some JavaScripts.
I might placed these elements in wrong place as it's hard to know that code.
This is index file:
http://slawgd.webpark.pl/index.rtf
and pls find CSS here:
http://slawgd.webpark.pl/style.css
Thank you very much for you help!!
Greg
CAUTION: I am sorry that my answer has no real solution so you can choose to ignore.
The followings are just my comment on your web page after I had analyzed it.
It would be slightly better if you copy the rendered code of HTML as we won't get your data in your SQL Database.
Simply right click the page in browser and find Source Code to get it.
Also, you might find a better answer from the someone who help you to produce it because he is the only one person familiarize your page most.
EDIT: Just a suggestion and not a solution.
After I looked at your page, it is suggested that to find the someone because the page was complicated designed.
It needs lots of effort to modify it without affecting other component.
Moreover, it is quite horrible to work out on cross-broswer compatibility because the code is not well designed.
In mainland China, users of Firefox might not have much, but there are still numbers of users using Maxthon which include WebKit engine.
Variant IE-based browser in mainland China also give a slightly different result of rendering so the code must be optimized.
Therefore, ask the website editor for cleaning the code (such as repeating CSS, malformed HTML structure, etc) and working hard on cross-broswer compatibility is considerable.
More personal comment:
In conclusion, if you find a worker for your website construction with money pay, it seems that it is a huge job to rewrite it and it is not easy to persuade him to help you.
Maybe you can ask someone to help you with a simpler basic structure and insert the original JS background slide effect and drop menu effect to your newer, simpler, and cleaner structure.
There are still a readable amount of unnecessary wrappers inside the page.

ASP.net site looks completely different on IE, Firefox, and Chrome; why?

I'm doing css for a website. I send the html and css to a guy, he puts it into ASP.net. The problem is that the transfer didn't end well for my code and it needs some fixing. The problem is that when I look at it in Chrome, or Firefox, or IE8, I get three completely different renderings. I spent a good amount of time trying to fix a drop-down menu that is supposed to appear while hovering over a link. The one he had in place from ASP.net worked in IE, kinda worked in Firefox, and was completely broken in Chrome (I haven't tested Safari or Opera.) Just getting it to look basically the same in firefox and chrome was a struggle. The html source is showing me two completely different pages as well.
Does anyone have experience with this? I know nothing of ASP.net, and it seems like the guy is modifying my layout with a wsyiwyg (I found tables used in random places, which I did not put there.) Faced with this, what is my best option? Is this fixable, or am I in over my head?
Many times WYSIWYG programs don't generate code that results in reliable, consistent renderings. However, there are a few things you can do to check your site's consistency.
You can use a program like Adobe BrowserLab (there's a free trial right now) to automatically render your page in multiple browsers side by side
You can use the w3 Validator to make sure that your code is standards compliant. If your code isn't standards compliant, then you will likely have issues across browsers.
Note that you can force asp.net to generate XHTML Transitional- or Strict-compliant code (if that's the standard you choose to implement) via the web.config file. Use the directive
<xhtmlConformance mode="Transitional"/>
if you want to enable this behavior.
Was your code rendering fine in those browsers before you sent it off to the .NET guy? If so, the programmer is doing something to muck up your work. ASP .NET won't change the way your code renders... it's simply the Windows equivalent of PHP (simply put).
I would suggest (if you haven't already) testing your code before hand-off to verify proper rendering. Take some screenshots, and if after sending your code to this developer things break, you can point out that it was working until he started messing with your markup. If that ends up being the case, at least you know it wasn't you. If it was, then we have more work to do. :)
Can you provide any samples?
The html source is showing me two completely different pages as well.
That sounds like your asp.net guy is doing something wrong there. You can use asp.net to do browser-dependant rendering, but it sounds more like his job is to just make the site render what you gave him, and it's usually better to get your html and css right to begin with.

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