I have an asp.net MVC website, that based on a value in it's web.config can be in multiple languages. For example, if i choose it to be in English then the html tab at the top will read
<html lang="en" dir="auto">
if i choose arabic it will read
<html lang="ar" dir="auto">
this works great for the most part, but there are definitely things in my global css file that need to be customized based on the actual 'dir' direction. Is there a way to customize my css/scss file to act differently depending on the dir value? can i perhaps find out what the dir value is and instead just have mulitple css classes (.menu_Left , .menu_Right) and append that value?
Or do i just need to make my own enumeration (here are the languages where dir=auto will move to the right) and do everything by hand? I'm just trying to see what is the easiest way here.
What about html[lang="ar"] .menu_left { /* insert rules */ }? That being said, you should maybe load different CSS files per language. That way the files are smaller, your performance is better and you don't have this problem to begin with.
I was using XHTML on my website but that completely destroyed jQuery and its plugins.
Therefore, I want to go back to html 4. I am defining some custom attributes for my html, like so:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd" [
<!ATTLIST mytag myattribute CDATA #IMPLIED>
]>
This seems to be valid html for, but when I pass such a page from my server with a content type of text/html, my browser displays ']>' - it can't parse the doctype properly.
Is there a different content type I should be using?
From A List Apart
If you run such a file through the W3C validator, you find that it
validates wonderfully well. If you download the sample files for this
article and validate file internal.html, you can see this for
yourself. Unfortunately, when you display the file in a browser, the
]> shows up on the screen. There’s no way around this bug, so this
approach is right out.
So this basically isnt going to work. To get it to work you need to copy the DTD you want the server/local machine, edit it appropriately and put it in a publically accessible place. See the article for more detail.
As far as jQuery is concerned, it should work fine if you quit trying to customize the DTD in the fashion that you are. Im not sure about using a custom DTD as I have never done it, but just adding the attributes to the elements and not defining them in the DTD shouldnt cause a problem with jq. Granted the document wont validate, but validation is just a tool and not overly important in the grand scheme of things.
I have some HTML stored in a database that I want to insert into a Word document using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.
Inspired by the article here, I tried the following code.
mainPart.AddAlternativeFormatImportPart(AlternativeFormatImportPartType.Xhtml,
String.Format("<html><body>{0}</body></html>", html));
But this gives me the following error.
'(My HTML Here)' ID is not a valid XSD ID
I really don't understand this error. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Also, my biggest concern about this approach is that the HTML may not be perfectly formed and I suspect this code is not as forgiving as browsers are. Any recommendations for other possible approaches? I'm considering parsing the HTML and rendering it myself, but that will be a lot of work.
The second parameter is a part ID, not the part contents.
To set the part contents, you need to put well-formed XHTML into the RootElement property of the returned AlternativeFormatImportPart
We have a lot of elements on the project I am working on that use ellipsis styles, which, of course, work fine with pure CSS in all major browsers but FireFox. We implemented the -moz-binding fix for that which references the xml file with the binding information for cropping an element defined with XUL/XBL as defined here and it worked great... Until we decided to move all our static files (CSS, images, etc) to performance optimized servers. The -moz-bindings no longer worked because FF has disabled XUL from working cross-domain as a security precaution.
I found a lot of references online about putting the binding xml directly into the url clause of the -moz-binding like this:
-moz-binding: url(data:text/xml;charset=utf-8,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%3F%3E%3Cbindings%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A//www.mozilla.org/xbl%22%20xmlns%3Axbl%3D%22http%3A//www.mozilla.org/xbl%22%20xmlns%3Axul%3D%22http%3A//www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul%22%3E%09%3Cbinding%20id%3D%22ellipsis%22%3E%3Ccontent%3E%3Cxul%3Adescription%20crop%3D%22end%22%20xbl%3Ainherits%3D%22value%3Dxbl%3Atext%22%3E%3Cchildren/%3E%3C/xul%3Adescription%3E%3C/content%3E%3C/binding%3E%3C/bindings%3E);
But that didn't work... the binding just fails and the element does not display at all in the browser. No error (that I can figure out how to capture at least) is thrown and so I can't diagnose what's going on.
I thought maybe it was just the way I encoded the xml but even trying the sample on the Mozilla documentation or this other sample doesn't work for me. I have tried simple html pages with nothing but an element with the Mozilla example and it fails. What is it I am missing configuration-wise to make this inline stuff work?
I am either looking for 1) a way to make the inline -moz-binding work or 2) a way to resolve it so that the external xml file works when the CSS is coming from another domain.
If anyone has advice it is much appreciated!
By the way, I'm not interested in any other solutions in applying ellipsis to fields (such as Javascript implmentations). This works fine for our purposes and is used too many places in the site as a CSS class to make a refactoring for another approach feasible.
You could try that adding in your .htaccess:
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin *
source
I have a legacy application that I needed to implement a configuration page for to change text colors, fonts, etc.
This applications output is also replicated with a PHP web application, where the fonts, colors, etc. are configured in a style sheet.
I've not worked with CSS previously.
Is there a programatic way to modify the CSS and save it without resorting to string parsing or regex?
The application is VB6, but I could write a .net tool that would do the css manipulation if that was the only way.
You don't need to edit the existing one. You could have a new one that overrides the other -- you include this one after the other in your HTML. That's what the "Cascading" means.
It looks like someone's already done a VB.NET CSS parser which is F/OSS, so you could probably adapt it to your needs if you're comfortable with the license.
http://vbcssparser.sourceforge.net/
One hack is to create a PHP script that all output is passed through, which then replaces certain parts of CSS with configurable alternatives. If you use .htaccess you can make all output go through the script.
the best way i can think of solving this problem is creating an application that will get some values ( through the URL query ) and generate the appropriate css output based on a css templates
Check this out, it uses ASP.NET and C#.
In my work with the IE control (shadocvw.dll), it has an interesting ability to let you easily manage the CSS of a page and show the effects of modified CSS on a page in realtime. I've never dealt with the details of such implementations myself, but I recommend that as a possible solution worth looking at. Seeing as pretty much everyone is on IE 6 or later nowadays, you can skip the explanations about handling those who only have IE 5,4,3 or 2 installed.
Maybe the problem's solution, which is most simple for the programmer and a user is to edit css via html form, maybe. I suppose, to create css-file, which would be "default" or "standart" for this application, and just to read it, for example, by perl script, edit in html and to write it down. Here is just the simple example.
In css-file we have string like:
border-color: #008a77;
we have to to read this string, split it up, and send to a file, which will write it down. Get something like this in Perl:
tr/ / /s;
($vari, $value) = split(/:/, _$);
# # While you read file, you can just at the time to put this into html form
echo($vari.":<input type = text name = ".$vari." value = ".$value.">");
And here it is, you've got just simple html-form-data, you just shoul overwrite your css-file with new data like this:
...
print $vari[i].": ".$value.";\n";
...
and voila - you've got programmatical way of changing css. Ofcourse, you have to make it more universal, and more close to your particular problem.
Depending on how technically oriented your CSS editors are going to be, you could do it very simply by loading the whole thing up into a TextEdit field to let them edit it - then write it back to the file.
Parsing and creating an interface for all the possibilities of CSS would be an astronomical pain. :-)