Questions tagged [html]
HTML stand for HyperText Markup Language. You may ask questions about handling HTML files; however, questions regarding HTML markup are considered off topic here.
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Does an anchor tag come before the query string or after?
I am unclear if an anchor tag should come before a query string or after.
http://www.domain.com/search?query=hello#name
or
http://www.domain.com/search#name?query=hello
Or does it matter?
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HTML Tag Auto Complete in Notepad++?
I would like for Notepad++ to add the closing tag when I finish typing the open tag. I know there is a plugin to do this for XML but it doesn't work on my HTML files and I have yet to find one that ...
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Is it possible to take a screenshot of a web page as an SVG image?
I have a webpage which is entirely vector-based (text, icon fonts, SVGs, but no PNGs, JPEGs, or GIFs).
Is there any way to take a vector screenshot of that webpage and save it as a fully-scalable SVG ...
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Stop excel from converting copy-pasted number/text values to date
I'm copy-pasting some data from html table into excel. But excel automatically converts some text or number values to date! When I change the format, the number is perversed, the number is something ...
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How can I edit the HTML source code of an email in Outlook 2010 without any add-ins?
I need to be able to make HTML custom emails with div tags, formatting, and such, and I need to be able to send it with Outlook 2010.
How is this possible?
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correctly sizing PNG images in markdown with pandoc for html/pdf/docx
I am trying to use markdown with pandoc to convert a single document into html, pdf, and docx. It's an extremely simple document containing only math-less text and a few images. The images are in ...
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Editing HTML source code with Google Chrome
In Internet Explorer I can open a local .html file and edit it by selecting "Source" in the "View" menu," make a quick change, and then "Refresh" (reload) the web page.
How can I do that with Google ...
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How can I automatically convert all source code files in a folder (recursively) to a single PDF with syntax highlighting?
I would like to convert source code of a few projects to one printable file to save on a usb and print out easily later. How can I do that?
Edit
First off I want to clarify that I only want to print ...
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How to download a file from a URL?
But let's say I have a URL, and it's either a SWF, a PNG or an MP3 or something. How can I force my browser (in this case I'm using Google Chrome) to download the file, instead of automatically ...
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Removing file / folder link after using "Save As..." then "Web Page, complete"
When you right-click save-as a web page in FF, the page is saved along with a folder containing any associated media that page needs (images, js, etc).
My problem is that I want to reorganise the ...
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Configure Thunderbird to never send (or even try to send) HTML emails
Where can I tell Thunderbird always to send emails as plain-text, and never as HTML-formatted messages? I hate HTML-based email, and always do everything possible to send my emails as plain text.
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Why does my browser attempt to download pages from http://clhs.lisp.se instead of viewing them normally?
This problem started a few weeks ago.
Whenever I navigate to any page at http://clhs.lisp.se — for example this one: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/m_w_open.htm — my browser doesn't display the page ...
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How can I view the HTML of a Thunderbird e-mail?
I am writing an e-mail in Thunderbird, formatting it with bold, italic, bullets, etc. When I am finished, I would like to copy the HTML to my blog.
I tried the Edit HTML Source Add-On but it "is not ...
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Notepad++ Jump between opening and closing html tags
If I've currently got a html tag highlighted in Notepad++, is there a way to automatically jump to the closing tag and vice-versa?
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Is there any *good* HTML-mode for emacs?
I love emacs,
and I want to do my web-programming work in it,
but I can't find a way to get it to edit HTML properly.
I mean it's seriously awful.
It will do HTML fine, but not PHP, javascript, etc....
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Command-line CSS selector tool [closed]
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What tool (preferably for Linux) can select the content of an HTML element based on its CSS path?
Example
For example, consider the following HTML document:
<html>
<body>
&...
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Transform linked images to embedded images
I have imported a HTML report into word by opening it (open index.html in Word) and copy / paste the result as an annex into my Doc.
It worked fine, except that all the images (200 of them) are ...
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Why is "It works!" showing up at my http://127.0.0.1 (localhost)?
So, I was playing around with Java sockets, servers and streams, the other day, and I decided, purely out of curiosity, expecting no good results, to open Google Chrome and navigate to 127.0.0.1, and ...
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HTML or rich e-mails do not work with Enigmal in Thunderbird
I would like to be able to receive HTML/rich e-mails, but since I installed Enigmail for Thunderbird, this has not been possible. All e-mails are shown as plain text or not shown at all. This has some ...
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Is there an HTML auto-indentation feature or plugin for Sublime Text (aka prettify/beautify/format)?
For example, something to change:
<section><article><h1></h1><p></p></article></section>
to:
<section>
<article>
<h1></h1&...
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Get Firefox to ignore HTML 5 autocomplete tag setting?
With HTML 5 there is a new attribute called autocomplete. If it's set to autocomplete=off, then the browser does not store the password.
How can I override this setting, short of modifying the ...
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How to configure the default app to open tel: links in MacOS X?
When clicking tel: links in Safari, such as:
<a href="tel:+3361234567890">call</a>
the FaceTime app opens. How can I configure it to open Skype instead?
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How long until an old website visitor sees new web design?
Given that there are no cache settings in the HTML page, how long until an old website visitor see a new website design without force refresh?
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How to take a screenshot of an entire scroll element?
I searched the Internet to find a way to do it,
but I didn’t find anything that works.
I use the web version of Tinder app. There's a chat section inside a div and I want to take a pic of the entire ...
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HTML - Historical or technical reason for target="_blank" with underscore?
Until today I am wondering why target="_blank" has not become target="blank". I am sure the browsers could understand this as well.
Are there any historcal or technical reasons for this decision / ...
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Notepad++ auto complete HTML end tags after </ (like Dreamweaver does)
In Dreamweaver typing </ will automatically close the last open tag, so you don't have to type it all out, and it helps if you aren't sure if you closed one or not. Is there a plugin that dose this ...
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View rendered html of html document in new Google Drive
In the old Google drive—before the material redesign—one could open an HTML document and that would show the source in a modal (pop-up window with an overlay behind it). Then when you pressed open ...
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How to navigate between begin and end html tag in Vim?
For example, if I want to jump to the close form tag. how could I do this?
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How can I create a link to a specific position on a web page? [closed]
Is it possible to create a hyperlink to a specific scroll position on a web page?
For example, I'd like to create a link to http://www.stackoverflow.com/, but with the page scrolled down 100 pixels.
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How to send rich text to the clipboard from command line?
How can I send html to the clipboard as rich text from a script? My end goal is create a script so I can paste content from a source file into an email, but I want a general answer for pasting into ...
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Copy colorful terminal (emulator) text output and paste as HTML?
I want to write notes (in HTML format) when learning Linux. When I need to note colorful terminal text output, I want the color of terminal text can be remained in my notes, e.g.:
Note 1: Test
The ...
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Rendering HTML from a pipe
I would like to be able to generate HTML then pipe it to a program which will render it, something like this:
for i in 1 2 3
do
for j in a b c
do
echo "<table border="1"><tr&...
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How to get code block with syntax highlighting into LibreOffice Writer
I am using Linux. I want to write small pieces of code and paste them into LibreOffice Writer. I do not care too much about which code editor to use, although preferably it would be ViM or Sublime ...
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Why is @ in email address sometimes written as [at] on webpages?
Why is @ sometimes in webpages written as [at]? Does it have any specific reason ?
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How can I add autocomplete in notepad++ for javascript in an .html file?
Notepad++ does auto-complete for html and also for JavaScript. but the auto-completion depends on file extension.html file supports completion for html only. Is there a way to enable auto-completion ...
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Is it possible to view HTML source auto-formatted in Firefox
I am writing a Web site in PHP, and the HTML it renders is not well formatted and hard to read in Firefox (most of it is on a single line).
I don't want to mess up my PHP code by adding loads of ...
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How do I send email in plain text rather than HTML in my email client?
For various reasons, I often have to help friends and family to send email in plain text rather than HTML. However, many of them use email clients that I'm not familiar with, forcing me to search the ...
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How to add Mac's command special sign into a markdown document using HTML tags?
I have a markdown document with the following line:
Press CMD+SHIFT+>
In HTML:
Press <kbd>CMD</kbd> + <kbd>SHIFT</kbd> + <kbd>></kbd>
Instead of CMD I ...
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Downloading blob image
Some websites have something like this:
<img src="blob:foo" alt="bar">
The "Save Image As" function in Firefox doesn't let me save the image blob:foo. I can't download the image by using "Save ...
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How to convert HTML to text?
How it is possible to convert HTML to text file in Linux? For example I want to curl a query to Google, then convert the output html to text and read converted text on my terminal. I am using RHEL6.
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What happened to design view in Visual Studio 2013?
Visual Studio has the option to view html in 3 views: design, split an source. (image from VS2012)
All 3 options seem to have disappeared in Visual Studio 2013.
Any ideas?
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Understanding CSS for user styling in a browser
I want to make a specific change to the appearance of a specific site in my web browser. This site uses CSS, so I think what I should do is write a user CSS override (please correct me if this is ...
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How do you use WGET to mirror a site 1 level deep, recovering JS, CSS resources including CSS images?
Pretend I wanted a simple page copy to be downloaded to my HD for permanent keeping. I'm not looking for a deep recursive get, just a single page, but also any resources loaded by that page to be also ...
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Run a shell script with an html button
I want to launch a bash script when a button is pressed on a website.
This is my first attempt:
<button type="button" onclick="/path/to/name.sh">Click Me!</button>
But no luck. Any ...
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How to see XML coding of SVG image created in Inkscape?
I heard that SVG files are made of XML and HTML but softwares like Inkscape are used to create SVG images easily without worrying about coding in XML.
Hence after creating a SVG image I want to view a ...
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How can I send an Outlook 2007 email containing a linked image?
I want to send an Outlook email that contains an externally hosted image, but I can find no options in the UI that lets me do this.
I want to insert the image's URL somehow, and have it appear as an ...
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serve "normal" HTML pages from a Sharepoint server
I have a document authored in HTML with a TOC index page linking to numerous other pages, some having imgs etc. In other words, standard web content.
My work location uses Sharepoint exclusively for ...
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How to rename multiple files in multiple folders with one command
We want to rename our *.html files to *.php but (sadly enough) have not enough knowledge to do it with a cmd prompt command and/or batch file.
The problem is that each file is in separate folder –
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Paste html into Excel 2010 without Excel parsing the html
I'm running a query on SQL. Typically I can easily copy and paste the results from the query into Excel and it preserves the columns, rows etc.
However, in this case I'm selecting a bunch of emails ...
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Windows deletes HTML files when I delete a folder [duplicate]
I have saved a HTML web page. I got a .html file along with a folder which has the same name. Both of these seem to be linked magically:
if I delete the HTML file, the folder gets deleted as well
if ...
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