All who has webspace at Host Europe and installed WordPress by itself (not out of the box) have problems to use the autoupdate function from WordPress.
For me it said always that the installtion path of WordPress was not found. Now, after a long while, I found a german blog article WordPress AutoUpdate bei Hosteurope. There is described that you just have to put one single line in the config file wp-config.php of WordPress and all works as expected. The problem which cause the error is the directory for temporary files, which is set by this line via a environmental variable.
putenv('TMPDIR='.ini_get('upload_tmp_dir') );
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');
Just put the bold line in your config-file at this position and then you can use WordPress auto update. But be sure to backup your data as explained in the WordPress Codex!
When you have a div-container which has the attribute position-absolute and you put a 2nd div-container inside (which has also a position-absolute attribute) it can happens that Internet Explorer 7 does not interpret this correct.
I had the problem, that the 2nd div-container (which is a fold-out CSS-menu) is larger than the sorrounding div. In IE 7 the CSS-menu lays, in the part outside the sorrounding container, behind those elements. But for a menu you aspect to be the first element in the hierarchy.
Those layer positions can be set using z-index in CSS. The higher the index, the higher the position of the element to users-view. So I set the z-index to a high value but in IE 7 nothing happened.
Continue reading ‘How to use position-absolute and z-index with Internet Explorer 7 and nested containers’
It´s feasible to put elements (like an image) in raw format (base 64 encoded) directly into an HTML-tag. I will show you an example with an img-tag.
First of all you need your image in a base64 encoded format. For this you can use the base64-decoder-encoder of motobit.com. Just choose your file to upload and afterwards hit “convert the source data”. The base64 encoded string will be shown in a textbox. For this example I use the external-link-image of wikipedia. And I´ll get back the following base64 encoded string:
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We have decided we our bad Browser-script to not any longer support browsers like IE 6 which does not follow the HTML-standards.
But sometimes, maybe when you are at work, it is not that easy. Sometimes you need a little work around or a special CSS only for IE 6. Today it was one of those days. At work I made a site were articles are shown in a list, only one little overview-snippet for each article. Now I want, to made it more clearly arranged a solid line between each div-container. Thought and done in CSS, it worked fine – in Firefox. But not for Internet Explorer 6.
Continue reading ‘CSS border-bottom for IE 6′
The Internet Explorer 6 has sometimes a problem with floating right. Today I had this problem. I have two div-container: one a image which has to float left and a text block which has to float right. On Firefox this works without any problems. But IE 6 do not float the text to the right but just put it after the image. After a little internet search I found a similar problem, the so called doubled float-margin bug on IE 6. Continue reading ‘Floating problems with IE 6′
Today I had a really annoying problem with two floated elements and a clear afterwards. It´s well known if you want to put two elements (two div-container) side by side instead of one below the other you have to use CSS-floating and to stop the float afterwards (to start the normal document flow) you have to clear the elements.
.element_a {float: left;}
.element_b {float: right;}
.element_c {clear: both;}
Today I had this problem. I was using within a YAML Layout (middle column) some elements, two were floated like shown above. Now I do a css clear for the hr-tag (horizontal dashed line) to stop floating. What I got was the stopped floating, but also a big gap above the line (see first picture below). I was now trying with Firebug and other tools to eliminate this gap for one or two hours and it doesn´t work.
I just wanted to put a negative margin-top to slide the element above. But this doesn´t work at all! 
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I´m using YAML now for a while on our projects, also at work and for my own website. YAML is build as a core version which has many hacks (maybe for IE) and is made as an 3-column layout. On top of this there are some files which overwrites the other CSS classes and IDs and this is your special layout. Maybe when you use the YAML-Builder you have a finished layout where the classes in the css-directory overwrites the core classes.
For example you want to have a 2-column layout instead of a 3-column one the files in the css-directory set this layout. But when you make your own website you have to overwrite also some settings in the css-directory because you want to change the YAML-layout a bit. Layout, sizing or colours. There are two ways to do this.
Continue reading ‘Using YAML and be fully variable’
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