I've found that we can use DIV as a TEXTAREA by setting contenteditable='true' and overflow='auto' (or 'scroll') (I don't care about the appearance, just the functionality), but I really can't find the solution with Google search to make it really like a TEXTAREA, the problem is related to line-spacing, when pressing enter key, the next line is too distant from the one before in DIV. When designing with DreamWeaver, if I try editing the DIV's content and pressing enter key and switch to the code window, I can see there are P tags automatically inserted. That's why the lines in DIV are too distant from each other and it can't look fine like in a TEXTAREA. I want to say that it is so ugly and awkward.
Could you please let me know how to suppress that nasty automatic insertion of P tag into DIV's content whenever pressing Enter key? Or could you give me any other solution to make the lines in DIV normal as in TEXTAREA?
Thank you very much!
Your help would be highly appreciated! (I'm just a newbie in Web programming, so please be patient!!! Thankssss!! :))
UPDATE!!!
You may all misunderstood me, when I say I press the Enter key, it is not in code editor like DreamWeaver, It is when I load the page in the browser and try typing as a normal user. That's when I test the page.
Something like this?
#myDiv p{
margin: 0px;
}
I'm not 100% sure that the margin is what is causing the line height issues, you may want to try changing height, padding, etc. until you figure it out.
I tried making a fiddle and I'm not having the same problem, line spacing looks normal to me: http://jsfiddle.net/dFzjT/
Upon closer inspection, Chrome is adding extra divs upon each newline.
Switch to edit in the code view instead of the WYSIWYG HTML editor. Then you will want to type in between the opening and closing div tags:
<div>your text here.</div>
I've found that the strange problem (which might make some of you think I'm noob?, vote down me?) was not the fault of mine, it was the fault of the browser I was using, it was Opera browser. I didn't think it renders the DIV's content that way.
After try using a different browser like Google Chrome, FireFox and it is normal now, like a TEXTAREA as I want.
Thanks!
Here's the thing.
A lot of the answers on here answer the question, but they all miss an important point.
We were all new to this at some point.
So let me give you some advice that I wish I got when I started down this road.
Learn to read the code, and your life will be easier.
It might seem daunting now, but trust in your own ability to learn, and just struggle for a few days. You'll come out on the other end with a headache and a smile.
Write the code, save, and refresh the page in your browser.
This way, you look at it in a browser.
You should also get yourself all the important browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera & Safari.
Learn to use a localhost server like MAMP / XAMPP / Visual Studio.
This way you can write server-side code; that way you can test, check and tweak - all without having to upload anything.
Most of all, though..
Stay away from the WYSIWYG.
They're all just bad news.
Just write your own code.
:{D
Related
It has been brought to my attention that a website I'm helping out with sometimes has problems with span elements being injected. Those spans will break the whitespaces and make the text hard to read. Those spans look something like this:
<span data-contrast="auto">words</span>
<span data-contrast="auto">,</span>
<span data-contrast="auto">b</span>
<span data-contrast="auto">ut</span>
<span data-contrast="auto">sometimes also only single chars</span>
The website is run with/by WordPress, but that does not seem to be the cause because the affected posts look fine and show no sign of this markup in the post editor or database.
Also, those spans only seem to occur at nighttime. I tried to nail that down, but as so often, I couldn't really verify it yet, as it did not occur again to me, not even at night. Right now everything is fine and none of these spans are present.
I'm guessing it has got something to do with night-mode in browsers (although behaviour was the same in Edge and Firefox) or the night-mode in Windows but then on the other hand I haven't noticed this on any other page yet.
So, this is somewhat strange and hard to nail down, but you'll find copied texts that contain the same markup, when you use a search engine and search for "data-contrast span". So, at least I'm not the only one with this problem.
Any ideas how to nail this down and find out what causes it?
Browser plug-ins are usually given permission to modify page source at run time. I would guess the culprit is a cross-browser extension like Night Eye or Dark Reader.
In general, adding a <span> shouldn't mess with your layout unless your CSS is changing span properties away from the browser defaults.
Option 1
You might be able to fix the issue by adding CSS to control how the layout looks:
span[data-contrast="auto"] {...}
That will select all spans that have that data attribute. Then add styling to counteract the layout issues you see. That said, since the extension is adding the code after the page renders, it may override whatever you do.
Option 2
A better solution would be to create your own dark mode. Most plugins/OS night modes won't mess with your code if you provide your own theme options. A "dark" theme is the 2020 version of being mobile responsive; you should provide it in your code or live with the consequences when users, browser makers, and operating systems make their own decisions.
If you need help creating an alternate theme, CSS Tricks has a good write up.
Since it's not clear what software they are copying from, I've personally experienced this when copying from a Word Doc that's been opened in Microsoft Teams or in SharePoint, and then pasting directly into a website's editor (our site uses the TinyMCE text editor, a commonly utilized free text editor).
My recommendation: copy directly from the desktop version of Word, then paste into the editor and that prevents the "data-contrast" spans.
I assume there must be some hidden spans in non-desktop versions of Word Docs that they add to ensure the document displays the same way as the desktop version. The text editor doesn't know what to do with it, so it strips out everything, but the "data-contrast" portion.
Hope this helps someone out there as the original post was as asked some time ago.
One of my clients has been encountering this issue when she goes onto the app. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how to get it to show normally? Im not sure if this is a code issue or her computer.
Everything is getting bunched together
Edit: I did not provide the code because it is very lengthy and I feel like there could be another answer that isn't linked to my code since it is only happening to that computer.
There really isn't a lot to go off of this. It could be as simple as changing the width of the input tag which would take almost no time to fix. If you're using bootstrap or some other framework maybe a class name is messed up somewhere in the html. It would be a lot easier to pinpoint what exactly the problem is if there were code to go along with it. Also there could be no problem with the code and could just simply be her machine, but there is still no way to figure that out without looking over it.
I have a problem that has me stumped and I'm hoping someone here can help me solve it. I designed a new site using Sublime and am having problems with one file(page) that looks great on Sublime, but is screwed up when I put it on the live server.
From Sublime it renders perfectly on all web browsers, so I don't think has anything to do with it. I suspect that maybe it has something to do with the Cascading part of CSS. But, I don't know how to determine that.
Anyhow, here's the the code involved: http://portabledogpotty.com/dog-potties.html
The first section is the HTML and the second section is the CSS file. Any help would be very greatly appreciated!
Sam
Seems you have a table only for the header **SAVE EXTRA MONEY WITH OUR VALUE PACKS! **, try to put it as a th in the table for packs.
I see that just using the chrome element inspector.
Grettings
I'm kind of new to using HTML/CSS for real, so this maybe a stupid question.
My problem is a persistent whitespace on top of the page. At first I thought it was something about margin or padding, as suggested by Google and StackOverflow, but as far as I can tell it was nothing of that. I narrowed it down to a piece of text that is being added right after the opening body tag.
Here's what I mean:
If my code on the file is (simplified, but this is enough to cause the effect):
<html><body><p>text</p></body></html>
When I open it in Chrome and use the developer tools to see the elements, it's like this:
<html><body>""<p>text</p></body></html>
If I delete the "" it renders flawlessly. Right now I have a couple of lines of Javascript to remove the "" from every page, but that's obviously not ideal.
Also worth of note is that if put no tags in the body, like this:
<html><body>text</body></html>
Then no "" is inserted.
Besides Chrome, I've tested on Firefox and IE9, same thing happens. What am I missing here?
Thank you.
Thanks. Your comments were great. I had no script, just bare HTML, but as Jon pointed out, it's dynamically generated. Once I realized what was involved (I admit I should have realized it sooner ...) it was easy to find the answer:
Django template inheritance breaks site layout
It's solved. Thanks again.
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. :)