Html signatures: how to prevent user editing - html

I have made some .html signatures for one of our clients, and there are two things they want I can't figure out how to achieve.
One of them, the client wants the text inside the signature to not be editable by the user, that is to prevent them from accidentally changing something in the signature when sending an e-mail. Is this somehow posible?
The second issue, they said they can resize the images in the signature using the mouse. I also need to prevent this so that they cannot accidentally deform the logo or enlarge or diminish it. How can I do it? I tried setting width and height attributes to the images, but that doesn't prevent them form resizing it at will.
Any help or orientation will be really much appreciated.
Thanks

maybe you can create an image with the entire signature, so it won't be editable.
EDIT
Take a look at this link, maybe you will be able to add the signature after the send button is click.
How to modify email before sending

There are a few options:
1.) If you use an exchange server, you can set a Group Policy to add a signature server level and then another to remove permissions for signature access to all users. This will give you 100% control on all Outgoing messages. This is supposed to be used for disclaimers, so in a long email chain, the signatures may wind up at the bottom of the chain, not the message. See for more info: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/corporatesignatures.htm
2.) Another option is to run a script. This option steers away from using Group Policy, but I believe it would require action done on user level for each person, which may be an issue in a larger company. See here for more info: http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/thescarfedone/1016-centrally-managing-signatures-outlook-owa-free-way.html
3.) Last option I know of is to make signatures folder read only and insert the signature file directly on each person's computer. This is a very manual process and time consuming and certainly not scalable. See here for more details: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Copy-email-signatures-to-another-computer-4e03286f-2246-4d7d-ae95-a4cc1992595a?CorrelationId=0db01a3d-f8b9-4bfb-af86-37cd4dcf6ef9&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

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This sounds like you're facing the XY problem. Your actual issue is that users get confused by visits in a quick succession causing a code that was just generated to be invalid, rather than the fact that the link can be clicked twice.
From a security point of view, these kind of links should really be single-use, and the user should request a new e-mail if they want to perform the action again. Assuming this is something you're forced to do, I believe the best compromise would be to limit code generation to a time frame, so visits within, let's say, 5-10 seconds would result in the same code being shown to the user, based on the server's time.
Implementing any CSS based solution for this that'd work across every e-mail client out there is challenging enough (if at all possible), and I doubt any self-respecting e-mail client is going to let you run any sort of JavaScript to intercept the event.
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How to set focus on tab in tabcontrol in URL

I am trying to call a page in my customers webapplication (Exact Synergy Enterprise)
This is the link: http://someserveridontdisclose/Synergy/docs/CSCANEduCourseCard.aspx?ProjectNr=ACPGINTV
Within this page is an Ajax TabContainer with several TabPanels. One of them is called 'Doelgroepen'
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Thank you very much for your thoughts about this.
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http://forums.asp.net/t/1127834.aspx
http://www.aspforums.net/Threads/420684/ASPNet-AJAX-TabContainer-Set-Active-Tab-Client-side-using-JavaScript/
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The control does not have "native" support for URL tab selection. There needs to be specific code in the application in order to handle this.
It is however very easy to implement, if you absolutely need it, it shouldn't take much time (about 15-30 lines of code, depending on how many tabs/urls combination you need).
You can find a running sample of the AjaxControlToolkit Tabs control at the following link (the available functionnalities are described in there):
http://www.asp.net/ajaxLibrary/AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite/Tabs/Tabs.aspx
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I am currently working on a GWT application that requires report
printing. The use can select report parameters from a screen, and
upon clicking print we would like to display the file as it is being
generated. Currently we have server side code that is generating HTML
and writing it to a file. When the user clicks print, an RPC is being
made to pass the report parameters to the server and begin the
report. A second RPC is made after the report has started to obtain
the report's URL. From here, we are creating a Frame and setting the
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The issue I am running into, is that when setUrl gets
called, it only displays as much HTML that was contained in the file
at the time of the call. What would be the best way to refresh just
the frame containing the HTML report? It appears making subsequent
calls to setUrl passing in the same Url each time would do the trick,
but it actually doesn't seem to contain the additional content that
would've been written since the last call. It is also resetting the
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I have a handful of pages that let me alter the status of things (like changing the status of a listing or deleting an user) and I was wondering: should I use a link or create form buttons for those actions? (without javascript)
What are the pros and cons of each implementation? It seems to me that link is easier to code but form buttons seem more secure.
What do you think?
Non idempotent operations, like creations, updates and deletes are supposed to be done with a POST. So, without JavaScript, a form should be used with a submit button. This at least warns the user, if he refreshes the page after the delete, that the action will be resubmitted.
A useful pattern, to let the user refresh the page after the post and not risk a re-submit, is the redirect after post pattern , also known as post-redirect-get. This makes sure a refresh is possible, and make the browser "forget" about the post in his history, allowing the user to go back without resubmitting the delete.
well with css you can make buttons look like links and links look like buttons, so it's mostly a matter of appearance.
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Assume I have a html from, and it contain some submit type. I want to create a "are you sure" popup window that will appear when user click submit button.
My question is that is there any way to create it by using "only" html, not using javascript or any other?
HTML only is possible, but not without a postback
Scenario that could work without javascript:
You have your form with submit button
User clicks (and submits) the form
You display another form with are you sure? form (that contains Yes and No buttons as well as hidden fields of the first form that will make it possible to do the action required on the original data
functionality that executes the action and goes back to whatever required.
This would be completely Javascript free, but it would require several postbacks.
This kind of thing is usually done on the client with a Javascript confirm() function (here's a simple example) or lately with a more user friendly modal dialog provided by many different client libraries or their plugins.
When to choose the script free version?
If you know your clients are going to be very basic ones (ie. vast majority of your users will access your application using clients like Opera Mini that's not able to run scripts at all). But in all other cases it's much better to do this using Javascript. It will be faster, easier to develop and much more user friendly. Not to mention that it will put less strain on your server as well since certain parts will execute on the client without the need of any server processing.
No, there isn't. Despite of the new features in HTML 5, HTML is still a markup language, not a programming language. In order to express dynamic behavior (such as an "are you sure?" box), you need to use a programming language.
Javascript would be the most obvious choice for this, but you could also do it with frameworks that can get you around writing Javascript by hand (for example ASP.NET).
Edit: Actually it appears that it would theoretically possible to do this with without Javascript or other frameworks. As I just learned, HTML 5 + CSS 3 seems to be turing complete. But this is hardly relevant to this question.
It's possible to ask for a confirmation, but it will not be in a "popup window". The creation of the "popup window" requires javascript/other language.
It will be:
Request (first form)
POST
Response (confirmation form)
POST
Response (outcome message)
You can create a form with all hidden elements containing the data from the first form and a "Yes" and "No" button below the "Are you sure?" text. You can use PHP sessions to avoid the hidden form elements. If there is a lot of data or confidential data or you do not want to re-validate the data from the second form, use sessions. Make sure you validate the data from either form before using it.
I know I'm like .. 10 years late. But for anyone still wondering I thought I could be of some help!
What I did for this exact problem was make sure I had multiple "divs" in my code. For me specifically, I had two main ones.
First, one whose id="main", and another whose id="popup" with the 'visible' property initially set to 'false' for the popup div.
Then, on whichever event you're looking for (button click for example) you'll simply set main.Visible = false and popup.Visible = true, then you could have more buttons in your popup (yes, no, cancel, confirm, etc.) which do the exact same thing, but in reverse!
The most important thing to make sure of is that you have the 'runat="server"' property in your divs so that you can access them in your CS code
Hope this was helpful! :)