Tagged articles - HTML

If you are dealing with pure JavaScript without using any library, you probably want to trigger your custom actions on some element event. This is easily done with addEventListener which is in general supported by all now days browsers. ...read more

Minification of resource can speed up your page load and decrease network traffic making you pages load faster, especially on a poor Internet connections. Keep in mind that not all of your website visitors have high speed Internet connection...read more

When I searched for exporting s to HTML table in C# I found a lot of articles and code snippets which are basically doing string concatenation or String.Format on the hard-coded HTML String to generate HTML string of the table. To me this approach is a bit like a workaround and I was never a fan of hard-coding values. In addition, code with a lot of hard-coded value end up as hardly maintainable code...read more

Taking out business logic from the application allows different clients running on a different platform to use same logic. REST API is a great way to decuple business logic and make it available to different clients on a different platforms. To upload files using WebApi we first need to define an action in a WebApi controller to handle files posted to the endpoint. ...read more

jQuery makes things a lot easir when working with DOM. So many thing there out of the b and you do not need to worry about browsr compatibility. Browser compatibility used to be a big deal few years back, but not it all comes to almost one engine which is WebKit. ...read more

Sending email from SQL is not a difficult to achieve, but generating rich HTML content might be. SQL Server itself is not built as a text processor, first approach would be to build HTML by simple concatenating the string elements. This approach will work, but over time it will become more and more difficult to maintain especially if you need to add layout elements over time. ...read more

I recently needed to copy some value from the web UI to clients clipboard. Since this is not something you often need to use, I googled a little bit and found that this is easy to do with document.execCommand...read more

One of the major things that affects your page performance is the number of requests made from your page. Any external resource included on the page page makes your page loads slower. Most commonly these are images...read more

Not very often, but from time to time you need to slow down your code. Most of the time the reason for that is that you need to test some long execution, mostly external source call...read more

New version of browsers are bringing a lots of useful features, but among them there are some features that can actually ruin your UI concept. The following are just some of the most common ones and instructions how to disable them. Disable textarea rezise ...read more

HTML is a markup language same as XML, but still there are differences which make dealing with them a bit different. Basically HTML is a strict structure in terms of node sets and attribute sets, but in general more documents online are not exactly following the proper structure since browsers usually manage to deal with rendering out the document in UI...read more

Very often when you are dealing with content from 3rd party like tweets from Twitter of Facebook posts and comments you might end up with some URL inside the content. On both Twitter or Facebook or any other social network, links inside text comments are replaces with anchor tags to those URLs. In order to keep the same user experience and make it more useful o your side where you are serving the content from the other party it is recommended that you do the same. ...read more

Recently I was working on speeding up my website. As a reference I user Google PageSpeed Insights. There were few things, but among them was one that was that really poked my eyes...read more

Reponsive jQuery plugin for browsing public albums of a Facebook account. Plugin is suitable for both desktop and mobile websites....read more

String hardcoding it the worst way to generate your HTML. It makes code non-maintainable and hard to read. Lately in June I wrote an article how to generate HTML string without hard coding the string and using concatenation or string format...read more