Tag Archive for 'firefox'

IE and CheckBoxElement

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Callum
6 months, 3 weeks ago
in Techy
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If you name a class anythingCheckBoxElement it will cause wonkiness in IE. Very frustrating. Took me almost 6 weeks to figure this out.

The behaviour I experienced was that a div wouldn’t move properly when other divs around it were moved. Changing the class name of a child table row to filterCheckBoxElement2 resolved the problem. It would seem that CheckBoxElement is a reserved word and may not appear at the start or end of any names. Weird.

Naturally, the vastly superior Firefox has no such limitation! :)

Firefox keywords - a wonderful feature

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Callum
7 months, 1 week ago
in Techy
. 5 Comments

You might call them url shortcodes, shortcuts, abbreviations or otherwise. Firefox calls them keywords. Bookmark a page, edit the bookmark, add a keyword. Now type that keyword into the address bar and hit enter. Boom, it takes you to the bookmarked page.

So instead of typing http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm I can instead just type “search” and boom, I’m there! Props to cryton on freenode#firefox for the info. :)