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FAQ 1237 What is XHTML?
FAQ 1382 How do I put an image at the very right bottom side of each page, if all pages have different sizes and have info only on the top of the page?
FAQ 1390 How can I load a page into another frame?
FAQ 1502 How can I detect what browser is hitting my site and what its capabilities are?
FAQ 1507 How can I kill the Netscape Messenger advert?
FAQ 1508 How do you print an external .txt or .htm file
FAQ 1518 How can I get the logo in the url-field, such as Altavista (www.av.com) and Gelon net (www.gelon.net), which when you've bookmarked the page you then see the small icon next to your bookmark (instead of the usual html-extensio nicon)?
FAQ 1554 How can I download a font to the users computer?
FAQ 1555 How can I hide the scrollbars without disabling them?
FAQ 1561 How do I write a link which opens notepad.exe?
FAQ 1689 Why in Netscape Navigator when using tables with the bgcolor parameter, my radio buttons show a box around them?
FAQ 1700 How can I create a single frame frameset?
FAQ 1709 How can I use the main windows scrollbars to scroll the contents of an inline frame?
FAQ 1764 How do you hide your Web server's identity from potential hackers?
FAQ 2000 How do I create vertical white space larger than just 1 line?
FAQ 2001 How do I make a line longer, e.g. how can I stretch a line to fit the entire page?
FAQ 2002 Why don't spaces, tabs and line breaks appear where I put them?
FAQ 2003 What is Validation? Why should I do it? How do I do it?
FAQ 2004 Helpful URLs for Validating
FAQ 2005 What is a DOCTYPE?
FAQ 2006 Helpful DOCTYPE URLs
FAQ 2007 What is the "KEYGEN" tag?
FAQ 2008 What is the "NATURALSIZEFLAG" Tag?
FAQ 2009 Is there any way I can speed up graphic download on my pages?
FAQ 2010 How do I open mailbox or news components by clicking on a link?
FAQ 2011 I keep hearing about character codes, what are they?
FAQ 2012 Does it matter if I capitalize the HTML commands or not?
FAQ 2013 Should I always put new commands and section on new lines?
FAQ 2014 Is there a difference between using the hex color codes and using the word color codes?
FAQ 2015 Do I need to have the # mark in front of color hex codes?
FAQ 2016 How do I include the & < or > symbols in my text?
FAQ 2017 How can I find out how other browsers will render my page?
FAQ 2018 What is the best way to indent?
FAQ 2019 Is there an HTML tag to put a space between the words?
FAQ 2020 How do I get rid of space between images?
FAQ 2021 How do I remove the blue box around my image?
FAQ 2022 When should I use Quotes in my tags?
FAQ 2023 How do I create different headings?
FAQ 2024 How do I add a link to another site, or another document?
FAQ 2025 How do I add a link to a gopher site?
FAQ 2026 How do I add a link to an ftp site?
FAQ 2027 How do I add graphics to my page?
FAQ 2028 How do I add a send-mail link?
FAQ 2029 How can I control the margins of my page?
FAQ 2030 How can I stop the browser from automatically wrapping a line of text?
FAQ 2031 How can I stop my HTML code from being viewed?
FAQ 2032 What browsers support frames?
FAQ 2033 How do I support non-frame browsers?
FAQ 2034 How do I make sure my site does not get framed?
FAQ 2035 Can I make nested frame sets?
FAQ 2036 How do I create an inline frame?
FAQ 2037 How do I set the backgroundcolor for a specific frame?
FAQ 2038 How do I print several frames on the screen?
FAQ 2039 How do I link to a specific frame?
FAQ 2040 How do I make frames without borders?
FAQ 2041 How can I launch another browser with a page...instead of loading it up in the current browser?
FAQ 2042 My document is designed for 640x480, and looks fine when viewed that way. On a larger monitor, the contents of the "main" frame move about 1.25 inches to the right if the browser window is enlarged. How may I get the contents of the frame to stay flush-left?
FAQ 2043 When a frameset is viewed in Netscape, 3 or 4, there is a one pixel space around the frames. I have set everything to zero in the frameset and it makes no difference, though it looks fine in ie 3 and 4!!
FAQ 2044 How can I change the location of two frames with one link?
FAQ 2045 How can I completely hide a frame and make it unopenable?
FAQ 2046 How can I open a page over the current frameset?
FAQ 2047 How do I change the fonts in my table?
FAQ 2048 How do I create an empty cell?
FAQ 2049 Do I really need the </TD> and </TR> at the end of a table. I made a table without them and it worked just fine. What gives?
FAQ 2050 How do you change the color of the border in my table?
FAQ 2051 Can I have a scroll bar within a table cell?
FAQ 2052 Is it possible to load an HTML file into a table?
FAQ 2053 How can I leave no space whatsoever between table cells?
FAQ 2054 How do I add graphics to my page?
FAQ 2055 Which is better, gif or jpg format?
FAQ 2056 What does the little box with the red X in it mean?
FAQ 2057 What does the image with the square, the triangle, and the circle in it mean?
FAQ 2058 Is there any way I can speed up graphic download on my pages?
FAQ 2059 How do I get rid of space between images?
FAQ 2060 How do I remove the blue box around my image?
FAQ 2061 How do I open files using imagemaps?
FAQ 2062 How do I add meta information to images?
FAQ 2063 How can I created animated GIFs?
FAQ 2064 How can I fix the background wallpaper of my page?
FAQ 2065 How can I make an image fit tight into the upper left hand corner?
FAQ 2066 How do I disable the ENTER key from activating the form submission?
FAQ 2067 Is there a way to submit a form and ignore the response?
FAQ 2068 I am using a "mailto:" form on my web site, the output is horrible. I receive a single string of data that is hard to read, is there anyway to format the output of the forms?
FAQ 2069 Is there a way to get an image to act as a button to send a form?
FAQ 2070 How do you limit the amount of characters in a text box?
FAQ 2071 Is there a way to change the font size on an input text box on a form?
FAQ 2072 Is it possible to control the size of the text on a clickable button?
FAQ 2073 Can I send form data to an email address by clicking on Submit button?
FAQ 2074 How can I upload a file to server?
FAQ 2075 How can I right align text in an input box?
FAQ 2076 How can I change the background colour of a button?
FAQ 2077 When printing my HTML forms, how can I control where the forms break across pages?狢 intend for my users to fill out forms online and then print them, but so far I am not able to control the page breaks.
FAQ 2078 Is there a way to send an email from a form to several recipients?
FAQ 2079 Can you make a button on a form act as a hyperlink?
FAQ 2080 Can I set some default text to be displayed in the TextArea box?
FAQ 2081 Is there a way to disable (de-sensitize) a check box item, so that it's always selected or unselected?
FAQ 2082 I am using IE4 and can't fetch the page's search parameters offline. What gives?
FAQ 2083 How do I make a submit button and have the information sent to my E-mail instead of Microsoft Exchange coming up and composing a new mail?
FAQ 2084 How can I control the tab order in my form?
FAQ 2085 How do I make my page searchable by spyders?
FAQ 2086 How do I play background sound on my page?
FAQ 2087 How do I make text blink?
FAQ 2088 What are the commands for super- and sub-script?
FAQ 2089 How do I make custom bullets?
FAQ 2090 How do I ensure, that a page does not end up in the cache?
FAQ 2091 Is there a way of setting the size of the browser window in HTML?setting the size of a new browser window.
FAQ 2092 Can you give me some information on META tags?
FAQ 2093 How do I create page breaks so my documents print correctly?
FAQ 2094 How do I keep a MIDI playing even after the visitor moves to another page on my site?
FAQ 2095 How to create Vertical or Horizontal Whitespace