wdvlTalk Roundup November 2002

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• smartgroups.com
• How about a Yahoo Group?

I'd like to set the margin for any <p> which immediately follows an <h3>.

From reading http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#adjacent-selectors, I *think* I need to use the "adjacent sibling" selector:

 h3 + p { margin-top : 0.5em; }

 H1 + H2 { margin-top: -5mm }  

• I Had to look it up in my HTML/XHTML OReilly book, but it looks like you've got it right. It's an Adjacent Selector. Unfortunately it only has a two paragraph brief on Universal, Child and Adjacent Selectors, with no comment on browser support. I don't have the book on CSS. The book's example is like this:

  h1 + h2 {margin-top:  +5mm}  

  Here's a good page I googled on the subject by Eric Meyer: http://www.webreview.com/style/2000/07_21_00.shtml
  
  To quote the browser support paragraph: "Adjacent-sibling selectors are supported in Internet Explorer 5.x Macintosh. They are also supported in the Netscape 6 preview release 1 for all the myriad platforms for which it's available, and in preview release 3 of Opera 4 for Windows. There are bugs in the handling of adjacent-sibling selectors in IE5 for Windows, and Opera 3 for Windows."

• Someone over on Webdesign-L recommended this: http://gallery.theopalgroup.com/selectoracle/
  
  It's a tool for deciphering CSS selectors, looks like it could be really handy although I haven't tried it out on anything *really* difficult yet ;-)

A client reports that on his browser (IE 5.0) that after clicking on a graphic, which is also a link, and then going back to the page, that there is a dotted line box around that graphic. I don't see this on mine, and so it's really hard to trouble shoot.

• In the img tag, add

  onclick="this.blur();"

  That way, it will not be selected when the back button is pressed.
• If you're using Dreamweaver there is an extension that will remove all your dashed lines around your links, it's called LINK SCRUBBER. You can do a full page, hundreds of links if you had that many all in one fell swoop :)
• Try adding this piece of JavaScript to the link:

  onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()"

  as in:

  <A href="something.html"  onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">

  What it does is to immediately lose focus (deselect) as soon as the link is clicked. It works for text links as well.

I install MySQL on my computer and now I'm not sure how to use it?? Can someone point me to some good tutorials or give me some advice on how to open it?

• google for "mysql-Front"; it's a great GUI for mySQL and tho now discontinued you should still be able to get a copy somewhere (freeware, iirc). Then install PHP and PHPmyAdmin :)

I hunted high and low overnight on the Internet looking for a javascript that would do the following:
1) open visitors email program
2) fill in the subj line with subj of my choice
3) plunk the url to the page the visitor wants to send to their email friend in the body of the email message which means this javascript has to know what page the visitor is wanting to send

I found several scripts that will do what I need it to do but they are all forms and I don't want a form, I want to use my image as a link button image. Can someone direct me to where I might find such a script?

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
document.writeln 
( "<a href='mailto:?subject=suggest page&body=" + location + "'>
  <img src='../images/bttn_send2friend.gif' 
    alt='click here to send this page to a friend' 
	width='95' 
	height='47' 
	vspace='2' 
	border='0' />
	</a>" );
</script>

• www.tipsandscripts.com

I'm looking for an alternative to a frames page where thumbnails in one frame open the picture in the main frame - any ~~simple~~ suggestions that are cross browser?

• Jasc aftershot has an album creator. http://www.jasc.com
  Gazo is the one I use

Does anyone know of a source of free content that is still available?

• http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/section.asp?sectionname=syndartauto
• http://www.stickysauce.com/