This is a quick and dirty method to get the infamous “Zebra Strips” on tables by assigning alternating classes.
For this example we’ll use the fmod() function in PHP…
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It’s important to remember that eventually IE will catch up to the times and we need to keep our hacks clean and ready for the future. At the moment, IE 6- seems to ignore decedent selectors so we can use that to our advantage when targeting a hack. We can use the child selector to replace both the old star html bug:
With the blaze of the iPhone and other similarly enabled "web" phones, companies such as Bank of America, ABC News, Flickr and Orbitz.com have made an extra effort to make their exceptional websites available across these smaller platforms.
This is a quick and simple rewrite used to activate php5 and rename the handlers for php4. The following code will need to be in the root dir .htaccess file for global changes.
Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / # switch GoDaddy's php extension handling for php5 AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4
In this example I'll find all the elements with the class name "hideMe" and then hide/show them.
Valid XHTML Conditional Commenting
Published July 21st, 2007 in Code Bank and Web Design. 0 CommentsIt's sometimes nessasary to write conditional commenting in (X)HTML or in CSS, especially with the current browser wars. Here, i describe how to write conditional commenting enabling/diabling IE from rendering. With some witty programming you can make IE/Win work in somewhat standards.
Before you begin to use mod_rewrite (RewriteRule, RewriteBase, and RewriteCond) code, keep in mind that each rule applied is executed on each and every HTTP request that accesses a file in or below the directory where the code resides.
The best way to support Transparent PNG in IE6
Published June 21st, 2007 in Code Bank and Web Design. 3 CommentsThere are many way to support transparent .png images in IE browsers. However, this method seems the simplest and most “transparent to work with. It uses CSS compliant JavaScript .htc files and can be easily called thought the
behavior: url(iepngfix.htc);
How to implement:
Setting up .htaccess and .htpasswd (Godaddy Hosted)
Published June 6th, 2007 in Code Bank. 0 Comments
A Simple approach for a password protect folder called /private
Open notepad and start typing… (When ready to save make sure the ext .txt is not there)
File: .htaccess
AuthUserFile /home/content/u/s/e/username/html/private/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "Secure Directory" AuthType Basic <limit GET POST> require valid-user </limit>
