Friday, April 17, 2009

Button to increase or decrease Font size on website


<script type="text/javascript">
var min=8;
var max=18;
function increaseFontSize() {
var p = document.getElementsByTagName('p');
for(i=0;i<p.length;i++) {
if(p[i].style.fontSize) {
var s = parseInt(p[i].style.fontSize.replace("px",""));
} else {
var s = 12;
}
if(s!=max) {
s += 1;
}
p[i].style.fontSize = s+"px"
}
}
function decreaseFontSize() {
var p = document.getElementsByTagName('p');
for(i=0;i<p.length;i++) {
if(p[i].style.fontSize) {
var s = parseInt(p[i].style.fontSize.replace("px",""));
} else {
var s = 12;
}
if(s!=min) {
s -= 1;
}
p[i].style.fontSize = s+"px"
}
}

</script>


Link for buttons
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This is not my script, source is White Hat

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Easy steps to develop 3 column layout with equal height using CSS

In this I am not going into the details, this is just for the basic solution to the height problem of 3 column layout.

The basic structure goes like this.




<div id=”container”>
<div id=”left_nav”> </div>
<div id=”main_content”> </div>
<div id=”right_nav”> </div>
</div>


Step 1: Find the column whose height will be maximum.

Suppose “main_content” is going to the longest column.

Step 2: Set background color to first column

Set the color which you want to be the color of “left_nav” as background color of “container” div.


#container {
background-color: #FFFF99;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 100%;
float: left;
}


Step 3: Set background to third column

Add a extra div as background for the other two divs – “main_content” and “right_nav”.


<div id=”container”>
<div id=”left_nav”> </div>
<div id=”extra_div”>
<div id=”main_content”> </div>
<div id=”right_nav”> </div>
</div>
</div>


Make the width of this “extra_div” equal to the sum of width of two divs – “main_content” and “right_nav”.

Height (extra_div) = Height(main_content) + Height(right_nav)
Make the “extra_div” float right or opposite the other two divs.

Make the background color of “extra_div” same as you want for “right_nav”.

#extra_div:background-color = #right_nav:background-color

Add background color to “main_content”.

#extra_div {
background-color: #FFFF99;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 75%;
float: right;
}


This gives us three column layout.



There are many articles on this issue. I liked these two:

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Clear text field on click



<input type="text" name="myText" onFocus="this.value=''" value="Type in to search">


You could do it with onClick as well, but it wouldn't work if user used TAB to focus on the field