I’ve been using the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar for years with Internet Explorer 7 and below. When Internet Explorer 8 came out, it had these tools baked right in and called the Developer Tools. (You can activate the Developer tools by hitting F12 in IE8.) But what if you need to peek into the DOM…
As I mentioned in my last post, Fun With My Blog Stats, the #1 post in my blog stats over the last three months has been IE8 and the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. If you’ve recently upgraded to IE8 and are wondering where the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (IEDT) has run off to, it has…
When I read today in an email from Microsoft that IE8 was at RC1 status, I thought I’d give it another try. (I’d downloaded an early beta and it got in the way of me getting things done.) Once I’d installed IE8, rebooted, and launched it, much to my chagrin I was informed that the…
Here’s one that I’ve run into several times, and it always takes me too long to remember how to fix it. So, you’ve installed the handy dandy Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (one of the Swiss Army knives for Web developers) on a new machine and when you open it, all of the drop down options…
Having done branding (meaning applying custom CSS to change colors, fonts, etc.) to quite a few MOSS Site Collections, I wanted to offer a few tips and tricks to keep things clean and easy to maintain. I’ve mentioned some of these tips before, but I wanted to get them all into one post so that…
Many times when you are implementing a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) solution, it turns out that some of the many features that SharePoint provides aren’t needed or wanted. For instance, you might want to hide the default left-side navigation or the My Site link. There is a simple trick for doing this. Rather than removing the placeholder…
Branding can often be an anathema to technical types. We often think that we can’t do anything with it unless we have a designer working with us. I proved to myself recently that it’s not actually that complicated. Here’s how it went. All of the changes I outline below happened in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007…
While there’s no real master page concept in Windows SharePoint Services 2003, I’ve found that editing "C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions60TEMPLATE1033MPSdefault.aspx" to replace images, resize objects, etc. works much like a master page in SharePoint 2007 would. Between the default.aspx file and the OWS.CSS file (C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions60TEMPLATELAYOUTS1033STYLES), I’m able to…
When you use the innerHTML property, you need to be careful. Take a look at this simplified Javascript sample code: var new_legend = document.createElement("div"); new_legend.innerHTML = "<table>"; new_legend.innerHTML = new_legend.innerHTML + "<tr><td colspan=2 align=center>Legend</td></tr>"; //Add legend entries for (var i = 0; i < legend_count; i++) { new_legend.innerHTML = new_legend.innerHTML + "<tr><td>something1</td><td>csomething…
This falls into the "how have I lived so long without it" category. If you develop Web pages, download, install, and enjoy. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en