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ASPX : Datalist Control tutorial

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:31:56 +0000

Author: tjaks
Subject: Datalist Control tutorial
Posted: 26 May 2012 at 12:31am

How difficult would it be to use 3 data sources?

1 source for a drop down list (like your early tutorial of the rescue dogs). A selection from the drop down list would display another list showing thumbnails and titles. The titles would then be hyperlinks to open the full details.

On my personal site I started a data page that used 2 or 3 drop downlists to display the another list. It still needed some work but I've since dropped the project. As it was the data refreshed each time you made a selection from either drop down. I know there's a setting that needed to change on one list but never did it.

ASPX : Display images in database results

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:25:29 +0000

Author: tjaks
Subject: Display images in database results
Posted: 26 May 2012 at 12:25am

tjaks wrote:

What's the format of the field with the photos? Is it a hyperlink to the photo?

I've answered my own question as I was following the tutorials.

This is what I've got so far. 2 DataList views on a page. First list has a thumbnail image and a title. The title is the hyperlink to the details.

The second list has all the details and will eventually have a larger picture and hyperlinks to other websites.

My current issue is with showing the details when clicking the link. If I remove the WHERE clause from the second datalist the information is displayed as expected. When I use databinding to the title the page refreshes when the link is clicked but the space is empty. During the setup the test query worked without any issues.

The problem may be my laptop as I just recently found out none of my internal links work when viewing on the local machine. I've tested hyperlinks in the reports area and recalculated hyper links.

I just don't want to publish this as a test if I'm not sure it's working. This Laptop is really getting frustrating. Hoping something will change real soon.

Edited to Add:

NEVER MIND. I Left out an =.

Edited by tjaks - Today at 12:46am

ASPX : Datalist Control tutorial

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:50:31 +0000

Author: tcertain
Subject: Datalist Control tutorial
Posted: 25 May 2012 at 7:50pm

I think Asif is on the money. Of course you would probably have more questions than you knew what to do with!

Helping each other : favicon

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:08:47 +0000

Author: tcertain
Subject: favicon
Posted: 25 May 2012 at 7:08pm

The caveat with IE - it must be an .ico (icon file) and it must be in the root of your directory. Otherwise you get the IE symbol!

Helping each other : favicon

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:00:37 +0000

Author: tjaks
Subject: favicon
Posted: 25 May 2012 at 7:00pm

tjaks wrote:

I'll fix this up and see what happens.

I fixed the existing line and added the second line you had posted (with the right domain name). IE is still showing my old favicon and Chrome is still showing my new favicon. The new one shows up in Chrome bookmarks but the old one still shows in IE favorites.

Helping each other : favicon

Fri, 25 May 2012 18:49:03 +0000

Author: tjaks
Subject: favicon
Posted: 25 May 2012 at 6:49pm

It's funny you mentioned this. I recently changed my favicon and never checked IE to see if it worked. I checked now and IE is still showing the old favicon. I looked in the source code for my home page and found this:

Guess I never really finished the job. The favicon shows up just fine using Chrome.

I'll fix this up and see what happens.

ASPX : Display images in database results

Fri, 25 May 2012 18:38:37 +0000

Author: tjaks
Subject: Display images in database results
Posted: 25 May 2012 at 6:38pm

What's the format of the field with the photos? Is it a hyperlink to the photo?

Helping each other : margin

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:01:05 +0000

Author: tcertain
Subject: margin
Posted: 25 May 2012 at 5:01pm

My first guess would be that whatever computer you are using is not 1000px wide. You are also using em for all your padding and margins. This can give you a false sense of width. I personally use em only in sizing fonts, everything else is either px for everything if it is a fixed width layout as yours is, or % for liquid layouts.

As for Jims comment that I see he just posted, 1000px is not an unreasonable width if you are on desktop with a better than 17 inch LCD monitor. The issue comes with trying to view it in a monitor that has a resolution of less than 1140px width set or in an ipad or iphone type setting. The problem could be how you have your monitor set. Do you have it set up to see things bigger on the monitor? Like 120%? or the width resolution less than 1140px.

If you need a better answer, put up a temp url and post it so we can look at it

Helping each other : favicon

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:47:01 +0000

Author: petergy
Subject: favicon
Posted: 25 May 2012 at 4:47pm

In order for the favicon to appear in IE, is there anything I need to do besides the following?:

- upload favicon.ico to the main server

- add these lines before the </head>

Thank you,

Peter

Helping each other : margin

Fri, 25 May 2012 16:45:36 +0000

Author: jimd
Subject: margin
Posted: 25 May 2012 at 4:45pm

Hi

This could well be your issue -

#wrapper {
position:relative;
width:1000px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
background-color: #FFFFFF;

A width of 1000px will blow most browser windows.

HTH
JIM