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Cool tag I just discovered...

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:43 am
by alex.barylski
optgroup

Didn't know it even existed :oops:

For a long time I've wondered how some sites supported that feature...

I always thought it was a drop down implemented as an HTC or something, but wondered how firefox supported it too...

Then it hit me...view source and see how their doing it...so I did and I discovered this new tag :)

I haven't seen anything so cool since marquee :P

Are there any other super, but relatively uncommon HTML tags which I don't know wabout but might be interested in?

Some examples might be: label, legend...I always thought those two were neat as well :)

I suppose I could just look up the w3c web site, but i'm more curious about which ones you use and why? if any :)

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:39 am
by hawleyjr
I always thought fieldset was cool.

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<fieldset>
<legend>Please Enter Your Name</legend>
Here!!!!! 
</fieldset>
But yet, I never us it :lol:

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:54 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Use XML, write a DTD and have any wonderful tags you like :)

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:04 pm
by alex.barylski
d11wtq wrote:Use XML, write a DTD and have any wonderful tags you like :)
I'm not sure what you mean?

It doesn't help that I have no idea about w3c standards, etc...I have seen and read about DTD before, but couldn't tell you what it does, except that it has somehting to do with standards compliance??? would be a guess anyways :P

Not sure where you are going with that, but please elaborate i'm interested - slightly anyways.

What I meant by any tag, was really more of a rendering/visibility thing.

For instance label doesn't render anything, but it makes checking radios or boxes alot more user friendly :)

And Marquee...saves a hell of a lot of javascript too :)

Thats what I meant, not so much as the XML tag namespace...

Can you actually hook the rendering of tags inside a browser using those XSLT/DTD CSS transformations, etc???

I've always been curious about those, but never had a reason to read up on them...

Cheers :)

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:10 pm
by alex.barylski
hawleyjr wrote:I always thought fieldset was cool.

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<fieldset>
<legend>Please Enter Your Name</legend>
Here!!!!! 
</fieldset>
But yet, I never us it :lol:
I have, but they don't seem as nice in web applications as GROUP controls do in Windows apps :( man I envy wicked UI designers...I mean my front end skills ain't bad and certainly better than many other developers I know...but compared to a solid UI designer...I bow down!!!

Like this guy: http://www.lukew.com/ not the best i've seen, but damn nice display...

I enjoy design occasionally, but it's not where my heart is...and yet I dislike developing software with crappy interfaces...

Anyways, way off topic :P

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:17 pm
by feyd
at least you, the original poster, sent it off topic :P

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:25 pm
by alex.barylski
feyd wrote:at least you, the original poster, sent it off topic :P
This is true :)