The Problem: You need to work with Magento Models, how chic! The Solution: Well, let’s be honest… I don’t have THE solution, but I do have some useful snippets of information to pass along. Models are the meat of an MVC application. They contain the definitions for your application’s components. Stop for a moment and [...]
This article was written while using Magento v1.3.2.3. Greetings! This is installment number one of the the exiting Magento Custom Module series. There’s basically two paths to the end of the fairytale: Path 1: You follow this series and get down and dirty with Magento, learning a lot along the way. Path 2: You go [...]
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JavaScript reports 0 (Zero) Height and Width for hidden image
2 Comments | Posted by Will Wright in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery
The Problem: I was recently modifying an image gallery for a customer that used a pretty slick JavaScript Carousel for the presentation. The Basic idea was that the images were all outputted within an LI, hidden via CSS, and then the JavaScript carousel used that LI as the datasource to build the gallery. Everything worked [...]
The Problem: Note: This only applies to XHTML 1.0 Strict Doctypes and Mozilla. I make this type of layout all the time! Two fixed width columns on either side of a fluid column. Recently I had to put a list of article teasers into the center (fluid) column. No problem, I marked up an unordered [...]
The Problem: You need to give an element a minimum height and you need to work in both FireFox (FF) and Internet Explorer (IE). The Solution: In your default style sheet use the declaration below. This will be picked up by Firefox. min-height:500px; In your conditionally included style sheet for IE set this declaration. height:500px; [...]
