How to show live preview in a small popup of linked page on mouse over on link?

You can use an iframe to display a preview of the page on mouseover: .box{ display: none; width: 100%; } a:hover + .box,.box:hover{ display: block; position: relative; z-index: 100; } This live preview for <a href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/”>Wikipedia</a> <div class=”box”> <iframe src=”https://en.wikipedia.org/” width = “500px” height = “500px”> </iframe> </div> remains open on mouseover. Here’s an example … Read more

Why is the tag not closed in HTML?

Historically, HTML has been based on SGML which allows tags to be omitted under certain conditions. Since the <img> element cannot have any child nodes, it is defined as EMPTY and the end tag is forbidden (as it would serve no purpose). XHTML is HTML expressed in XML, and XML does not support optional or … Read more

HTML 4, HTML 5, XHTML, MIME types – the definitive resource

Contents. Terminology Languages and Serializations Specifications Browser Parsers and Content (MIME) Types Browser Support Validators and Document Type Definitions Quirks, Limited Quirks, and Standards modes. Terminology One of the difficulties of describing this is clearly that the terminology within the official specifications has changed over the years, since HTML was first introduced. What follows below … Read more

Can tags have any type of tags inside them?

The span element is an inline element, which should contain only other inline elements and no block elements. From the spec: Generally, block-level elements may contain inline elements and other block-level elements. Generally, inline elements may contain only data and other inline elements. Inherent in this structural distinction is the idea that block elements create … Read more

CSS Justify text, fill space with dots [duplicate]

Here’s an elegant and unobtrusive one with some limitations (see below). JSFiddle CSS: dl { width: 400px } dt { float: left; width: 300px; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap } dd { float: left; width: 100px; overflow: hidden } dt:after { content: ” ……………………………………………………………………….” } HTML: <dl> <dt>Drug 1</dt> <dd>10ml</dd> <dt>Another drug</dt> <dd>50ml</dd> <dt>Third</dt> <dd>100ml</dd> </dl> … Read more

Stretching tag to fill entire

The “a” tag is an inline level element. No inline level element may have its width set. Why? Because inline level elements are meant to represent flowing text which could in theory wrap from one line to the next. In those sorts of cases, it doesn’t make sense to supply the width of the element, … Read more