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After reviewing “The Ultimate CSS Reference” I had high expectations of this book. Unfortunately this book failed to live up to those expectations as my review explains.

The Ultimate HTML Reference

If you have two files that contain similar data that you want to merge into one file then using jut one or two commands at a command prompt can do it for you regardless of which operating system you are using.

Merging Two Files

The attributes set in your style sheet completely over ride any of the old deprecated HTML attributes that used to serve the same purpose. This means that if you define your page appearance properly then attempting to reference the deprecated HTML attributes from your JavaScript will have no effect.

Changing Stylesheet Attributes

Often you don’t need to read an entire file to get the information that you need. Often what you are looking for will always be in the first few lines or last few lines of the file (depending on which order the information is stored in). Linux makes it really simple to read just a small part of a file by providing special commands just for that specific purpose.

Copying Part of a File

HTML doesn’t contain a single element combo box. To get the equivalent of a combo box in a web page you need to somehow combine a drop down list and an input field.

One way to do this is to provide an extra option in the drop down list that will make a separate input field appear so that values not in the list of the most common choices can be entered there. This means that it will not look much like a combo box but will at least work like on provided that your visitor has JavaScript enabled.

Dynamic Text Boxes

This article explains what hashing is and also goes through the terminology associated with it explaining what all the different terms mean.

What is Hashing?

The easiest way to add common content to all your web pages is to place that content into a separate file to be included into all the HTML pages before the pages are sent to the browser. How you do this depends on which server side languages you have available on your web server. In this tutorial we look at the command you need to use and naming convention needed for the page if you can use SSI or PHP.

Common HTML Content

My advanced form2mail script contains a number of security features that allow you to select how difficult you want to make it for the spambots to submit via your form.

Why wouldn’t you always choose the most secure level offered? Well the more secure that you make forms to defend against the spambots the more likely it is that you will prevent real people using the form as well. By offering several different levels of security the form allows you to start with a lower level of security that interferes with fewer people using the form and allows you to increase the security on those forms where you actually need a higher level of security to cut down on the spam.

Securing your Forms Against Spam