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JavaScript ‘onclick’ event ‘return’ keyword functionality

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I am really new to javascript, and stumbled upon the return keyword. Basically, what is the difference in terms of these 2 statements? <input type=”checkbox” onclick=”doAlert()” /> vs <input type=”checkbox” onclick=”return doAlert();” /> Essentially, both returned the same results and called the function, but is there more to it? Any help greatly appreciated :). Thanks! … Read more

CSS override rules and specificity

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I’m often confused by CSS override rules: in general, I realize that more specific style-sheets override less specific ones, and that specificity is determined by how many selectors are specified. There’s also the !important keyword, which plays a role as well. So, here’s a simple example: I have a table with two table cells. The … Read more

Can I style an image’s ALT text with CSS?

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I have a dark blue page and when the image is loading (or missing) the ALT text is black and difficult to read (in FF). Could I style it (with CSS) to be white? Answer Setting the img tag color works img {color:#fff} http://jsfiddle.net/YEkAt/ body {background:#000022} img {color:#fff} <img src=”http://badsrc.com/blah” alt=”BLAH BLAH BLAH” /> AttributionSource … Read more

Jquery change

text programmatically

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EDIT: The solution was to add this to the profile page instead of the gender page. $(‘#profile’).live( ‘pageinit’,function(event){ $(‘p#pTest’).text(localStorage.getItem(‘gender’)); }); I have a paragraph with som text in a listview that I want to change programatically from another page after clikcing save. EDIT: This is my listview in profile.html. When you click on the item … Read more

HTML ‘td’ width and height

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The ‘height’ and ‘width’ are not supported in HTML5. How can I set a td’s width and height while conforming to the HTML5 standard? <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ /> <title>219 班網</title> </head> <body bgcolor=”silver”> <div align=”center”> <table> <tr> <td width=”1000″ height=”250″> <object width=”100%” height=”100%” data=”frameTop.html”></object> </td> </tr> </table> <table> <tr> <td … Read more