Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud')

Viewing Option Text (in IE7) that's Wider than the Select List

2008-05-14T11:31:00-05:00

Though a "minor" cosmetic issue at times, it can be challenging to come up with creative ways to accommodate what I consider to be IE's shortcomings regarding the control of form items, in particular select lists. With at least one project I'm currently working on, I have a select list that lives in a fixed width div, yet there are times when the text values of the options are wider than the div itself. The client respect

Inline CSS and Ajax Issue with IE

2008-05-14T11:00:41-05:00

After spending more time than I care to say troubleshooting a CSS issue with IE7, I thought I'd share the details here in case it saves anybody else some time later down the road.

The Scenario...
I have an application that updates the contents of one of its divs using an ajax call that returns html. Within that retrieved html is a style block (<style>...</style>) defining how I want my table heade

Don't you hate it when...

2006-05-11T01:04:00-05:00

Okay, here's the scene:

You're standing in a crowded 4 star hotel lobby, leaning against the 10 ft fountain in the center. In your hand you are holding a javascript array with 5 items in it, the last of which has a null value. So you ask the little Firefox guy on your left shoulder to tell you how many items are in your array. He looks it over, sees that the last item has a null value, and so tells you that your array has 4 items in it