Web Development

Re: Solid border only at the bottom border?

10-Nov-02 21:16

Rickard Andersson wrote:
style="border-bottom-style: 1 solid"

You cannot do that. Basically there are many ways of specifing the border.

One is like so: border: solid 1px #000000

Or you can break that up into:

border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #000000;

Now that can be done for border-top, border-right, border-bottom and border-left

e.g. border-bottom: solid 1px #000000 or

border-botton-width: 1px;
border-botton-style: solid;
border-botton-color: #000000;

CSS gives you quite a few options to suite your coding style. I prefer the "all on one line" option and it is naturally lighter on bandwidth (which matters when a CSS file is downloaded hundreds of thousands of times a day.)

What you were trying to do is set the style of the border-bottom to a width of 1.

Also remember to put in the units for widths, e.g. px, em, % or pt. If you leave it out then different browers default to different things, which is bad Smile | :)

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson

Rickard Andersson²⁰10-Nov-02 22:04

Rickard Andersson²⁰

10-Nov-02 22:04

Paul Watson wrote:
Also remember to put in the units for widths, e.g. px, em, % or pt. If you leave it out then different browers default to different things, which is bad

Ought... I think I have much work to do! Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Thank you for all that!

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IIS 5.0 and ASP SSI oddities

Roger Wright9-Nov-02 21:44

Roger Wright

9-Nov-02 21:44

I've finally gotten around to playing with ASP (yeah only a few years behind everyone else - I've been busy!) and I love it! I had an ADO data access page working great this week until I tried to get cutesy and put the connection object in an include page. Theoretically this would allow me to use the same connection across many pages. In practice, it crashes IIS 5.0 with the message "exception 'Runtime Error'" whenever I try to access the calling page.

I tried enabling all verbs for .asp extensions on the virtual direcory that contains the files, but that didn't help. I tried restarting IIS after making that change, but after stopping it I found that I can no longer start IIS - it reports a duplicate address in use. The MS Knowledge Base offered a few clues, all wrong as usual, and using two different port scanners I confirmed that no other program is using port 80. Rebooting the machine solved the problem of being unable to start IIS, but it didn't help the problem of using SSI scripts - it still doesn't work, providing the helpful meesage that an Object was expected in the calling script. The object in question is a connection created by the included file.

Is there a switch in IIS that I need to set to allow SSIs to work? It's not a big deal, as I can create connections on every page and make it work nicely. But it's a pain to do so, and I suspect that it's a poor practice, as well. I'd really like to make SSI work - any thoughts?

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Re: IIS 5.0 and ASP SSI oddities

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar10-Nov-02 17:35

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

10-Nov-02 17:35

Hi,

I have once seen this problem. I tried re-installing MDAC -- Microsoft Data Access Component and a reboot after that solved the problems associated with

Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

Perhaps you can try reinstalling MDAC 2.7 (which is the latest one now)

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan
http://deepak.portland.co.uk/

Re: IIS 5.0 and ASP SSI oddities

Roger Wright10-Nov-02 17:41

Roger Wright

10-Nov-02 17:41

That's a good thought, but the problem isn't with creating the connection. When I put the connection code in the main page it works fine. The errors occur when I try to put the connection code in an include file. The main page then acts as if the #include never happenned, and the object was never created. I copied and pasted working code from the main page to the include file, then added the include directive to the top of the main page, saved everything, and it all stopped working. That led me to suspect that my installation of IIS may be corrupted, so I reinstalled it tonight. I haven't played with the site anymore tonight, but a quick check indicates that the reinstallation helped something. My default site was hacked last April replacing a lot of the content, and I thought I had it all cleaned out. But since then it has been impossible to contact http://localhost, and now that's working again. Maybe ASP will work again, too! Big Grin | :-D

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try asp.net web matrix?

zhoujun9-Nov-02 15:20

zhoujun

9-Nov-02 15:20

Has everyone here tried asp.net web matrix on
http://www.asp.net/webmatrix?

I think it's worth while trying,
But it seems to have a major problems,that is can't be used outside english codes,I mean it can't display any other languages characters other that english?

What is your opinion?

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David Stone9-Nov-02 19:38

David Stone

9-Nov-02 19:38

This should go in the ASP.NET forum...but I'll answer it anyway.

Yeah. I have used WebMatrix. Let me say this, I love VS.NET...it is way cool. That being said, I find that I am most productive when I use both side by side. Sometimes when I'm done developing, and I'm testing on the actual server instead of my laptop, and something doesn't work...I love WebMatrix. I can FTP into the server, change the stuff, hit save, and it re-uploads everything...very cool. Also, there's some nifty stuff built into WebMatrix like the Online component gallery.

My only complaint is that it doesn't support code-behind. Frown | :(

I use code behind everywhere. Mainly because I use VS.NET and it has all the benefits geared towards code-behind and because I hated the ASP model of things with "spaghetti code".

But overall, it's really geared for small stuff. Tinkering that you need to do last minute. I wouldn't dream of creating an entire site in it. But I find it exceedingly useful for maintenance stuff and the tiny stuff that needs reworking occasionally.

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zhoujun9-Nov-02 20:34

zhoujun

9-Nov-02 20:34

Hi. David.
From USA?and only use english,lucky,then you will not encounter the problems I faced now.

The web matrix did not load aspx files properly when there are chars other than english in that file,such as chinese can't be displayed?

I want opinions from using web matrix in non-english languages?
Thanks.

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David Stone11-Nov-02 5:06

David Stone

11-Nov-02 5:06

Sorry about that. Didn't realize that you were just asking for non-English speaking people's opinions. Well, now you know what I think of WebMatrix. Big Grin | :-D

leppie9-Nov-02 21:22

leppie

9-Nov-02 21:22

zhoujun wrote:
But it seems to have a major problems,that is can't be used outside english codes,I mean it can't display any other languages characters other that english?

Search a week down in the ASP.NET forums. Mazdak gave an answer, the other person was trying to work with Swedish characters...cant remember exact details... Frown | :(

"I dont have a life, I have a program."

Anonymous12-Nov-02 21:10

Anonymous

12-Nov-02 21:10

I searched,but seems they were not talking about web matrix?

regards,
zhoujun.

Paul Watson11-Nov-02 5:10

11-Nov-02 5:10

zhoujun wrote:
What is your opinion?

My opinion is that it is a free tool and we should be thankful it exists at all.

If you need more advanced features, then you are probably in a commercial environment and then should get a hold of VS.NET.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson

tables in web page ?

Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa8-Nov-02 21:03

8-Nov-02 21:03

Is there any option to align the text inside the table justified both left and right as it can be done in WORD??

Stephane Rodriguez.8-Nov-02 22:31

Stephane Rodriguez.

8-Nov-02 22:31

Ever heard of WYSIWYG tools such as FrontPage, Dreamweaver,... ?

I am not saying you should always use such tool to produce HTML code, but isn't it obvious these tools provide you with answers such like how to do text alignment in html by just applying the alignment first and see the resulting html code in the source code view ?

Back to real work : D-21.

Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa12-Nov-02 1:37

12-Nov-02 1:37

That option is not in frontpage (I think so). Have not tried dreamweaver.....

Thanks....

Anonymous12-Nov-02 1:45

Anonymous

12-Nov-02 1:45

I haven't mentioned any option. I have showed a general way to solve your html coding problems.

I could answer you for the very practical issue you have here, but as you can see for yourself someone else has also answered you.

Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa16-Nov-02 2:05

16-Nov-02 2:05

Paul Watson9-Nov-02 4:32

9-Nov-02 4:32

SPS wrote:
s there any option to align the text inside the table justified both left and right as it can be done in WORD??

Yes you can use CSS to do this... but be warned that a: it does not work on many browser and b: it looks terrible. Browsers do not have the same justification ability as word processors or DTP products, this is by choice as justification on the web is seen as a bad thing.

Anyway you can do it this way:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td style="text-align: justify">Justified text</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Hope that helps (but don't do it ya hear? Big Grin | :-D

)

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson

Sarvesvara (BVKS) Dasa12-Nov-02 1:36

12-Nov-02 1:36

The problem is, there are many files that needs the modification. So, this takes a hell a lot of pain in updatig the same.... anyway... thanks for the reply.....

Bye

Paul Watson12-Nov-02 1:45