HTML

Vertically wrapping XHTML Lists

Recently I was asked to produce a web page with the following layout for some of its list data Floating all items, left My first thought was “a single list ordered list, with all the list items floated left”. That worked well but didn’t really read all that well with each “row” running left to right rather than up and down, which is how people prefer to read lists.  The other problem I had was when one of the items wrapped onto multiple lines. The extra height of wrapped items meant items on the next “row” would get stuck trying to...

Interesting Event (or hCalendar)

An intertesting event happened to me today. For the first time in over a year I read about something and though “cool, that is worth sharing”. The semantic marking up of Event data and what google is going to be doing with it. I am currently working for a large “organiser of trade and consumer events” where we are in the process of building a CMS platform, on top of EPiServer, to enable the different events to have a compelling presence on the Internet. We often have to display Event data and from time to time I have looked at using...

IE6 and overzealous button post back

So we all know of IE6 and the problem it can have have when you have multiple submit buttons on a form and you press enter in an edit control. IE6 gets confused over what button should be sent to the server as the submit button. This annoyance is covered here and here. The issue I had recently was that even though I was directly clicking on a button (the search button on this page) ASP.NET was firing the code for the final button on the page (which in this instance was a "Finish" button). Once I realised that this is what...