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  1. datamasher

    How do I place an element at the center of its' ancestor?

    Hi, No problem my friend. Glad you've got a workable solution. Steve
  2. datamasher

    How do I place an element at the center of its' ancestor?

    Hi, In your second div css replace margin: auto; with right: 25%; See revised code below. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> .one { position:relative; border: 2px solid green; height: 200px; width: 50%; } .second{ position: absolute; border: 2px solid red; width: 50%; bottom: 0...
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    HTML5 hidden attrbibute not working IE11

    Hi 1DMF, found this on w3schools site Link Might be of help, but I am still learning jQuery myself Steve Datamasher
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    Basic code will not validate.

    Hi Keith, Ooops, minor correction to my code. I didn't close my tr and td tags correctly. Code below has been corrected and it still validates. After a short Google session it would appear that any content outside of table tags ( tr, td etc ) will not validate as content should...
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    Basic code will not validate.

    Hi Keith, Firefox web developer tool validator results showed no charset specified, so I put one in and then I just placed your hidden input type in a tr in the table and then bingo it validated. Don't know why it was failing though!! See code below <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC...
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    Browser Cache - Still having problems

    Hi Feherke and Chris, Thanks for your help and advice Feherke and the heads up Chris about browsers not being obliged to adhere to the headers. I've included the following in the head of my html pages :- <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate" /> <meta...
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    Browser Cache - Still having problems

    Hi Feherke, The documents are indeed static. I will look into the syntax though as you may be right that I have included backslashes where I shouldn't have. Many thanks again for your help. I will have another look at it and will reply with my findings Steve datamasher
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    Browser Cache - Still having problems

    Hi again, I thought everything was ok after Feherke kindly responded to my previous thread on this subject. However it seems that pages are still being cached when using Firefox. As stated in previous thread I've included the following meta tags in the head of the html pages that I...
  9. datamasher

    Preventing Browser Cache

    Hi Feherke, Thanks for your prompt reply. I've included the following meta tags <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT" /> <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" /> <meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="no-cache"> and this achieves what I was...
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    Preventing Browser Cache

    Hi everyone, is it possible to prevent a browser cacheing an html page? I have tried several <meta tag> methods but none of them seem to work. I have to update a particular web page almost daily and if visitors don't refresh the page they don't see the update. Any help much...
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    just want to read an access 97 or 2000 database file

    Hi genomon, I want to open tables in old version access 97 .mdb files. I tried the link but early versions do not work. Had a thought thought though, might be able to import data to Excel 2003 which I have got on my Windows Vista Computer. Will try when I am back at work on...
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    just want to read an access 97 or 2000 database file

    Hi everyone, I have a software package which manages theatre ticket bookings and wish to use the marketing facilioties which produce access database files in access 97 or 2000 formats. I simply just want to read / view these files ( I do not require to edit them in any way ). I...
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    CSS - Horizontal Menu - Can't hover past first item in menu list

    Hi FireGeek, The problem appears to be a z-index problem in the html on your pages. If you remove the z-index: 13; from the div below <div id="element21" style="position: absolute; top: 175px; left: 26px; width: 800px; height: 108px; z-index: 13;"> <h3>Employment Opportunities</h3> on...
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    need help with footer h3 background-color.

    Hi Phil, many thanks for the explanation. I am beginning to understand floated elements a lot better now. Steve (Datamasher)
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    need help with footer h3 background-color.

    Hi, I've spotted that you haven't closed the ul tag, and as your using html5 elements it's advisable to include the html5 doctype. The following code seems to display as you intended ( I've tried it in Firefox, Explorer and Chrome on Windows 8 ) <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head>...
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