What are all the valid self-closing elements (e.g. <br/>) in XHTML (as implemented by the major browsers)? I know that XHTML technically allows any element to be self-closed, but I’m looking for a list of those elements supported by all major browsers. See http://dusan.fora.si/blog/self-closing-tags for examples of some problems caused by self-closing elements such as … Read more
I have some values in my site which I want to clear when the browser is closed. I chose sessionStorage to store those values. When tab is closed they are indeed cleared, and kept if the user presses f5; But if the user opens some link in a different tab these values are unavailable. How … Read more
Is there any good way of truncating text with plain HTML and CSS, so that dynamic content can fit in a fixed-width-and-height layout? I’ve been truncating server-side by logical width (i.e. a blindly-guessed number of characters), but since a ‘w’ is wider than an ‘i’ this tends to be suboptimal, and also requires me to … Read more
There is a bunch of images in a web page. Other browsers do download them correctly, but Chrome doesn’t. In the developer’s console, it shows the following message for each image: Failed to load resource As mentioned before, problem appears only in Chrome. What is it? 13 Answers 13
This question already has answers here: How to disable text selection highlighting (50 answers) Closed 9 years ago. I would like to add text to my webpage as a label and make it unselectable. In other words, When the mouse cursor is over the text I would like it to not turn into a text … Read more
If a form is submitted but not by any specific button, such as by pressing Enter using HTMLFormElement.submit() in JS how is a browser supposed to determine which of multiple submit buttons, if any, to use as the one pressed? This is significant on two levels: calling an onclick event handler attached to a submit … Read more
What is the correct (modern) method for tapping into the window resize event that works in Firefox, WebKit, and Internet Explorer? And can you turn both scrollbars on/off? 11 Answers 11
I want to rotate a single word of text by 90 degrees, with cross-browser (>= IE6, >= Firefox 2, any version of Chrome, Safari, or Opera) support. How can this be done? 9 Answers 9
I’m looking for a generalized solution for this. Consider 2 radio type inputs with the same name. When submitted, the one that is checked determines the value that gets sent with the form: <input type=”radio” name=”myRadios” onchange=”handleChange1();” value=”1″ /> <input type=”radio” name=”myRadios” onchange=”handleChange2();” value=”2″ /> The change event does not fire when a radio button … Read more
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