Friday 18 January 2013

<PRE> tags and white-space: pre style

When you need to preserve tab characters and line breaks within HTML elements other than multiline input fields, you can use the <pre> tag or the style attribute of white-space: pre.

Just noticed that there is a slight difference in using a <pre> tag and a div with the white-space: pre style attribute applied to it. As the default user agent setting for the font-family style attribute for a <pre> tag is mono

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Found more of a description on this site... http://www.quirksmode.org/css/whitespace.html#t01

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Use Plunkr to test it out if you like....

http://plnkr.co/edit/dqJKnD?p=preview

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

  <head lang="en">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Awesome Game</title>
  <head>
 
  <body>
  <pre>Test this wer awereaw
   
    waerwearaw
    waeraw
    w
   
  </pre>
  <div id='content' style="white-space:pre">Content!
   
    waer
   
    weraweraw
    waera
    waer
  </div>
   
  </body>
 
</html>

Thursday 17 January 2013

Project Silk for all your HTML web application needs

A colleague of mine pointed out this white paper article that Microsoft have kindly put together, which appears to be a full overview on how to construct a web site in this day an age.

"Guidance for building cross-browser web applications with a focus on client-side interactivity. These applications take advantage of the latest web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and ECMAScript 5 along with modern web technologies such as jQuery, Internet Explorer 9, and ASP.NET MVC3"

http://silk.codeplex.com/

You can also download it all in pdf format from the following link

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27290

Tuesday 8 January 2013

How to find the last interactive logons in Windows using PowerShell

Use the following powershell script to find the last users to login to a box since a given date, in this case the 21st April 2022 at 12pm un...