Am I allowed to omit the path entirely from a href and start with a question mark?
For example: If my webpage is https://example.com/mycgi, can I have a link of the form bar?
I've tested this on Firefox and the link works as expected - clicking it takes me to https://example.com/mycgi?foo=bar. Will this work the same way on all modern browsers? What is best practice for this type of link?
I've tried searching MDN which usually has a good table of feature and browser version support, but https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#href doesn't have give details about relative link formats.
I usually use href="mycgi?foo=bar", but it means adding a less portable reference to mycgi in the page. I'd prefer not to have to dynamically add mycgi to every reference in the cgi which generates the page.
This is a pure html and browser compatibility question. I am not looking for server or client side tools to modify links.
There should not be any issue with it.
You should be able to write any of those and they should resolve like any other link element. You might wan't to test it out on every major browser. But if you find a browser that doesn't support it i'm pretty sure the browser is not up to spec.
href="?foo=bar"
should resolve to domain.com/currentPath/CurrentPage?foo=bar
href="newPage?foo=bar"
should resolve to domain.com/currentPath/newPage?foo=bar
href=".?foo=bar"
should resolve to domain.com/currentPath/?foo=bar
href="/?foo=bar"
should resolve to domain.com/?foo=bar
etc...
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I have a Windows 7 with service pack 1, and Internet Explorer 10. And I have my site, http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/ . It looks great on Chrome, Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. For starters, I wanted to test how my site looks using IETester, and it's a mess (please compare by clicking the link above):
The thing is, I think that maybe the issue could be that IE8 doesn't load well from <object> tags, is that it? I use three object tags to load the three white parts: header, vertical menu, and "site log" (you can see them here: http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/header.html , http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/verticalmenu.html , http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/thesitelog.html)
To load those three sites, I use the following code:
This one for the header, <object type="text/html" data="http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/header.html" width="100%" height=185></object>
This one for the menu, <object type="text/html" data="http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/verticalmenu.html" height=484 width=100%></object>
And this one for the log, <center><object type="text/html" data="http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/thesitelog.html" height=600 width="90%"></object></center>
Please let me know if anyone has any ideas concerning this "mess". Thank you!!
This isn't a real answer (It's a quick and careless answer at best, so don't take it too seriously)
But I just thought I'd mention that the the W3C markup validator might be useful to you if you don't already know about it.. It catches bad markup practices or errors on your page and can give you more information on how to fix them. At the time of writing, your front page alone has 10 errors and 3 warnings on it. Maybe this could point you in the right direction?
upon a quick skim of your page you don't seem to be utilising CSS properly. That is to say, that I see you are using css but you have elements on your page (use of <center> HTML tags, inline styling and things like that) that go against the grain of why CSS was invented.
If you haven't already seen the CSS zen garden, take a quick read/look at it. It should set you right on why we use CSS instead of tables and alignment tags.
(People sometimes don't get this immediately, but , click the links on the right in the zen garden. The same HTML and page content are completely restyled using one html file and seperate CSS sheets)
Good luck!
Edit:
Oh, I almost forgot to mention that internet explorer 8 doesn't have much (if at all) HTML5 compatibility. If you want to develop websites and web apps in HTML5 you'll be hard pressed to serve your I.E 8 visitors and may end up spending more time fixing bugs than you are developing the content.
Some developers are already boycotting I.E 8 entirely to usher in the new era of the web with HTML5 and CSS 3. There are a few js compatibility libraries out there (like excanvas for the new <canvas> element for example) but they don't work flawlessly and you will eventually have to draw the line somewhere. (lol. canvas.. draw line.. get it?) That being said, i did find this article and this may be useful to you:
turn-on-html5-in-ie8-or-lower
Not every website requires HTML5 and it's new technologies, but if you plan on using it for things like the <canvas> tag, Id suggest (from my own personal opinion) you forget about I.E 8 and concentrate on browsers that utilise it.
Remember that you can make checks in your HTML to see what browser version your visitor is using.
You can see if they are using an incompatible browser, and if so, you can then alert them that their software is out of date and suggest to them alternatives (such as chrome or firefox)
There's a bunch of tutorials on-line about this, here's the first decent looking one I found in a quick Google search this article covers using this technique for seperate CSS sheets but there are others that talk about the problem I mentioned in more depth and I'm sure you can probably figure out how to do it anyway once you read the article.
Either way, I'd say you've got a little bit of reading ahead of you to understand why your humble website does not work in an increasingly obsolete browser.
Again, good luck to you in your future endeavours.
Edit was too harsh:
Having looked a the site I would start by suggesting in future you think about design from a users perspective - the colour scheme you're using isn't very friendly on the eye, the red text against the green is particular troublesome to people with red/green color blindness, you also should consider how your content is presented.
End Edit:
However, regarding your IE issues.
First things first, with any work is getting a firm plan of what you hope to achieve and setting a good groundwork before starting. With HTML that means leveling the playing field with regard to browser quirks, and to achieve that, you use a reset css file.
This ensures that all browsers (as close as possible) behave in more or less the same way, regarding padding, spacing, line heights etc, and can go along way to prevent these sort of problems from happening, and allow you to achieve consitancy.
There's more info at the link below.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Secondly your HTML version - your declaring HTML5 but then use HTML4 values and attributes - basically your site (as pointed out above) is not valid markup.
I have a problem on a page i'm coding. Problem is i'm getting random img classes from nowhere (at least nowhere i know). I've put the generated class below.
<img class=" iryjanjabqqmypymdnuv" src="some/source/path">
There are several jquery plugins and jqueryui on the page but div that got img has nothing to do with those js libs. I also use php but that must have nothing to do with this i guess.
If you need any codes or names of the libraries just ask. Please help me i really have no idea and all the search i did was empty about this.
I had exactly the same problem. Find out that AdBlock Plus is responsible for that. So, just disable all the extensions and reload the page
Just wanted to chime in for anyone that finds this googling their problem, this is exactly the right answer in my case as well. AdBlock Plus (in Firefox only, not Chrome) was generating random class names for images I have embedded in my nav bar for social media links.
Now I have to either find a way to get around that or anyone using ABP in Firefox will see a weird looking nav bar due to this issue. It's not exactly an unpopular plugin.
I work in both Chrome and Firefox and use ABP in both. Hopefully we won't have to find workarounds for this.
Is it possible that you're browsing on a mobile network connection? Some mobile networks modify the HTML/CSS for images so they can serve lower-bandwidth versions, but allow you to "fix" them later. For example, on T-Mobile, if I hover over an image it will give me an Alt tag telling me the keyboard shortcut to use to load the original.
Obviously this won't be the case if it's all local...
I had the same problem and disabled all extensions in Firefox and then it was gone. Not sure which extension is the guilty party, have too many to chase it down by disabling each of them one at a time. :)
I need to create a page with all images and CSS in it, so it would be only one file.
I know that there is something like MHT (IE web archive), BUT there is problem. It works only in IE and Opera, not in FF. And i need my page to be working in all IEs (6+), Opera and FF. I know there is a way to encode my images in base64 and I also know, that IE 6 and 7 does not support data URLs. I've seen Dean Edward's trick for IE 6 and 7 but it works only with PHP support. And I can't use PHP, so this isn't working for me.
So, is there any way to create this kind of page? Please don't give me answers like "who is using IE6 today" or "install chrome frame". I know all this, but I need it to be working this way.
Thanks for the answer!
There is no cross-browser way to integrate all resources into one HTML file.
Your best bet is probably to serve a .MHT file for IE, and one with data: URIs for Firefox et al.
In some situations, a viable compromise may be serving a ZIP file that contains all resources, referenced using relative URLs. The user just has to unpack it, and can view it locally.
I can only think of one solution that will work in all browsers, and that is building an image from html elements, but it will be very much work to do so (per pixel or other strategy). Maybe jQuery can help a little. Also this might slow IE6 down (even more than normal...)
example: http://jsfiddle.net/huSq3/1/
I know it isn't much of a solution but I had to mention it. Now I'm thinking of it maybe you can use the canvas tag in combination of this javascript library for IE and draw the images to that via javascript.
Maybe you could use html conditional comments to decide which solution to use between MHT, data url, or any other partially supported solution...
If you are OK with the base 64 string in the image tag, then just hardcode it, then you do not need php
Is there a simple way to save an HTML page that has an external stylesheet (1 or more) referenced but force all of the rules to be inserted into the page itself, inline? So basically I want to move all external rules onto the elements that they affect themselves.
For what it's worth, I'm using nearly every major browser (incase the solution is browser-specific), and I'm on Windows (incase it's OS-specific).
I'm assuming you've seen the online tools that are available like this one? This online tool (which I have not tested but looks like it works) gives you the option of providing a url or source code and shows warnings for cross-browser compatibilities with your styles.
I use a tool that does something like that, but it was written for Ruby and TextMate for Mac. It is released by Campaign Monitor as a way of preparing HTML emails. It brings all the rules from the stylesheet and makes them inline styles.
It might give you a good start. I'll keep looking.
TextMate Email Bundle
The piece that does the heavy lifting is the TamTam RubyGem which brings the CSS inline. However, it seems to only support one style element (not link elements). If you could work with those restrictions, you could get it to work on Windows using Ruby and a ruby script file. Not quite drag and drop I'm afraid.
i use chrome extension Save Page WE
I would like to know if it is possible to modify Chrome or Firefox display settings, so that it would only show rectangles of HTML DOM objects? What I want to do is to decrease rendering engine job amount as much as possible, so it would only build layout of the page.
People usually refer to this mode of operation as "headless" (i.e. without UI).
Usually there's an additional requirement - to be able to run it server-side without the usual for client software installed. If you're running it client-side, I wouldn't bother about optimization, it shouldn't give you a big win anyway.
Otherwise, try searching using that term. I've seen it asked for several times, but haven't seen a working out-of-box solution.
[edit] just saw http://hg.mozilla.org/incubator/offscreen, which seems to be a headless version of Mozilla.
I wouldn't go as low-level as modifying the renderer. Instead, I suggest you use Firefox's Greasemonkey to replace the elements from the page with whatever it is you need. You'll need to know a bit of JavaScript, but it's not that hard.
However, this will only work on client side. If you want to do this on server-side ( so that it will work on any page a user requests through your own ), my guess is you'll need to grab the page's content in a string, and then modify it using a HTML parser.