Saint-michaels Html Tips And Tricks #4

Saint_Michael

Jul 10 2005, 09:38 AM

WEll its been awhile since i did so i will put up some more useful html tips and tricks here on trap17.com

Ok for trick actually, want to know how some websites got those ool icons put on their website link in the favorites folder well here you go in 3 quick steps.

1. create an image then shrink it down to 16x16 and save it as avicon .bmp.

2. then change it to .ico, when is the file reconizing it as a icon., if you are having problems saving it, there are some resources out there that can change it for you.

3. load the image to your website and add this tag in between your <head> tags

QUOTE

that should be it now your icon will be in someones favorite folder and in the url bar on ie or firefox or whatever you use.

next tip is for those text tool tips or just floating text tell what its about. well anyways someone posted that they wanted a way to show a foot note on text , it was posted how to do it but i found a easier way to do it without the use of the href in the <a> (ancor tag) this could be greatly used and saves some room on your files by doing what i posted about it dhtml and or javascript

QUOTE

<A TITLE="Here is the text!">Put your mouse cursor on me to see the tool tip !</A>

mind you its a second or two for a delay but it works.

for my next trick

. this tip is those who do chracter shrines or bio pages, which have a small amout of content this is embedding trick inwhich you load a page with in a page which means you can customize the scrollbars and other cool css tricks

QUOTE

this next one is more javascript but its a little useful, this next trick is used for image gallaries and or stories people write about or you can use it for quizes and stuff like that. its your basic back and forward button.

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well thats it for today hoepfully some of these will be put into good use.

also check out my design i used for fsa at www.xcitem.com

PEACE!!!

snlildude87

Jul 10 2005, 02:56 PM

Instead of using JavaScript to go back a step in history, you could also use PHP:

CODE

It's much easier; there are no forms; and it's always works regardless of whether the user has JavaScript enabled or not. Of course, that will only work with hosts with PHP support such as trap17.

Edit: Fixed my own BBCode

clagnol

Jul 10 2005, 08:42 PM

QUOTE(Saint_Michael @ Jul 10 2005, 04:38 AM)

1. create an image then shrink it down to 16x16 and save it as avicon .bmp.

This has been discussed on the Trap17 fora before. Using this method does not create a valid icon file. It may work, but you will have much more control over your icon image if you use the authentic icon format [such as including transparency].

Tyssen

Jul 10 2005, 10:48 PM

QUOTE(clagnol @ Jul 11 2005, 06:42 AM)

You can use this site to create a favicon from any image.

beeseven

Jul 12 2005, 07:50 PM

Favicons usually work if you just have a file called "favicon.ico" in the public_html directory, you don't need the tag for it.

Also, snlildude's method for a back button only works if the user has referrers enabled, otherwise, it makes a link to "".

GM-University

Jul 13 2005, 08:25 PM

Nice tutorial, I had forgotten how to do that favicon thing, you can also do the rollover thing when you do the text thing like this...
Put this right under </body>

CODE

<div id="dhtmltooltip"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">

var offsetxpoint=-60 //Customize x offset of tooltip
var offsetypoint=20 //Customize y offset of tooltip
var ie=document.all
var ns6=document.getElementById && !document.all
var enabletip=false
if (ie||ns6)
var tipobj=document.all? document.all["dhtmltooltip"] : document.getElementById? document.getElementById("dhtmltooltip") : ""

function ietruebody(){
return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body
}

function ddrivetip(thetext, thecolor, thewidth){
if (ns6||ie){
if (typeof thewidth!="undefined") tipobj.style.width=thewidth+"px"
if (typeof thecolor!="undefined" && thecolor!="") tipobj.style.backgroundColor=thecolor
tipobj.innerHTML=thetext
enabletip=true
return false
}
}

function positiontip(e){
if (enabletip){
var curX=(ns6)?e.pageX : event.x+ietruebody().scrollLeft;
var curY=(ns6)?e.pageY : event.y+ietruebody().scrollTop;
//Find out how close the mouse is to the corner of the window
var rightedge=ie&&!window.opera? ietruebody().clientWidth-event.clientX-offsetxpoint : window.innerWidth-e.clientX-offsetxpoint-20
var bottomedge=ie&&!window.opera? ietruebody().clientHeight-event.clientY-offsetypoint : window.innerHeight-e.clientY-offsetypoint-20

var leftedge=(offsetxpoint<0)? offsetxpoint*(-1) : -1000

//if the horizontal distance isn't enough to accomodate the width of the context menu
if (rightedge<tipobj.offsetWidth)
//move the horizontal position of the menu to the left by it's width
tipobj.style.left=ie? ietruebody().scrollLeft+event.clientX-tipobj.offsetWidth+"px" : window.pageXOffset+e.clientX-tipobj.offsetWidth+"px"
else if (curX<leftedge)
tipobj.style.left="5px"
else
//position the horizontal position of the menu where the mouse is positioned
tipobj.style.left=curX+offsetxpoint+"px"

//same concept with the vertical position
if (bottomedge<tipobj.offsetHeight)
tipobj.style.top=ie? ietruebody().scrollTop+event.clientY-tipobj.offsetHeight-offsetypoint+"px" : window.pageYOffset+e.clientY-tipobj.offsetHeight-offsetypoint+"px"
else
tipobj.style.top=curY+offsetypoint+"px"
tipobj.style.visibility="visible"
}
}

function hideddrivetip(){
if (ns6||ie){
enabletip=false
tipobj.style.visibility="hidden"
tipobj.style.left="-1000px"
tipobj.style.backgroundColor=''
tipobj.style.width=''
}
}

document.onmousemove=positiontip

</script>

Put this with your CSS <style> tag, or .css file.

CODE

#dhtmltooltip {
position: absolute;
width: 150px;
border: 1px solid #C1C1C1;
padding: 2px;
background-color: #EFEFEF;
color: #000000;
visibility: hidden;
z-index: 100;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=gray,direction=135);
}

And put this in your link

CODE

onMouseover="ddrivetip('Your tooltip text','black', 300)";
onMouseout="hideddrivetip()"

A link example would be

CODE

GM-University

Jul 13 2005, 08:27 PM

QUOTE(GM-University @ Jul 13 2005, 03:25 PM)

......you can also do the rollover thing when you do the text thing like this...
Put this right under </body>.....

That should have been <body>, not </body>

sonyguy

Jul 17 2005, 06:39 PM

These are really good, I like the first one about the icon, I always wondred about that! Thanks!

sachavdk

Jul 18 2005, 07:58 PM

Here's also a good program for creating icons form bitmaps, gifs,... and it even supports psd. You can also create avi files from animated gifs and series of icons (ie 8bit, 24bit, 32bit(24bit/8bit alphatransparancy), 48*48,32*32,24*24,16*16)...

http://www.gamani.com/
Unfortunately its not free but you can use a non-limited edition for 30 days.
And it's also not to expensive to buy ($39.95) (when you've seen its possibilities you know why

)

PS: there are also older versions available for download. Check that you download version 4.0.2 (4.0)

Dragonfly

Jul 18 2005, 09:08 PM

Nice tutorial on the back button. Thanks for sharing, I think people start to hate keep hitting on the back button from the browser top page, but they want to hit where they just finished reading the content. So, this function is becoming more and more important.

For favicon I just saved first as png file and then change the extension file as ico it works this way too. And like some have said without link also if we place it in public_html folder it still works.

And xcitem dot com site cannot open. It says time out. I think the server is down for now. I'll see next time.

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Saint_Michael

Jul 25 2005, 05:52 AM

no problem as here to help out, might do another one later on.

strawberrie

Jul 25 2005, 02:05 AM

Thanks for the quick HTML tips, Saint_Michael! I'm sure they'll be very useful to a lot of webmasters/mistresses XD out there...

@Tyssen: The site you provided is really helpful in creating favicons! Thanks~

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