I'm having an issue where IE is submitting the placeholder text as actual data to the server. The field is optional, so it'll contain placeholder text like
"Optional Description (e.g. my category)"
The problem is, if the user doesn't enter anything, then the form submission will submit that text which gets saved in the database. Does anyone know why it's doing this and/or how to fix it? I was gonna hack it and just check if the value is the same as that text, then replace it with an empty string, but I have a several fields like this and... well... hacks are bad.
Any ideas?
I was about to delete this question, but after a lot of digging, I found out that the culprit was jQuery.html5form.js. I removed it and the problem went away. I will submit an issue with them. I wanted this to remain here in case someone else happens to run into this unlikely issue.
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I have a program in visual basic that prints some large reports, sometimes with hundreds of pages. There is a lot of encapsulation here, but it boils down to us using the PrintDocument.Print() command to print the document. When it prints, it prints the form feed characters as up arrows (in windows 10). Is there anyway to get these to print as blanks, and just have them start a new page?
Let me know if you need anymore details. This is my first Visual Basic experience and I'm not sure what info would be useful.
Okay, I don't know if anyone else will encounter this, but I fixed it, so maybe my method will help you. There is a PrintPage event handler that fires off when you are printing, and basically it's just a matter of reading a string up to the form feed character, substringing that off to another string and then printing that other string, then culling it from the original string. Making sure you remove the vbFormFeed character from each page.
I have a document into which I copy all kinds of VBA code regarding questions asked on this site and write code in preparation for answers. This document was created on my PC (with Word 2010). It has no event procedure that runs on the Save event, but at some point a few weeks back it started to ask me the above question before every save, including automatic saves. The document is based on the Normal template which has no code in it. I don't know which code may have caused this to start, nor which code to even suspect. Other documents open in the same instance of Word save normally. It's only this one document that is affected.
The document also contains a lot of special items, like content controls, fields, ActiveX controls, EndNotes, tables and comments. I suspect the comments to be related to this problem in some way.
I know that I could probably stop the alerts by disabling alerts but that isn't what I want. I want Word to display all the normal alerts. It's just this abnormal one which I would like to switch off. Any ideas how to do that? Or what caused Word to issue that alert in the first place?
In these situations I make several backups of the document and then start looking for something that is broken. So using a new backup each time, I systematically delete portions of the document to see if the unwanted / unexpected behavior disappears. For example I first try to isolate the issue to the top of bottom 1/2 of the document. If I can establish that the issue is related to the bottom half then I delete half of the bottom half of the document and so on... it can take a while but it has been an effective method of finding issues for me.
That said, I tried this on a document recently and just ended up going round in circles. I thought I had narrowed the issue down to a single corrupt image, but that turned out to be NOT the case.
I've also found that there are some things that I can do with VBA that Word simply can NOT undo... I'm only aware of a few things (which I'd have to look up in my notes) but I'm sure there's a whole list of things.
A possible workaround might be to clear the undo history for this specific document prior to saving, I imagine that will suppress the message and save you from losing the standard notifications. Hope it helps :)
Good luck!
I really like how IntelliJ displays the information of the type of parameters that you are required to fill in as you are writing the code. The problem is that this info sometimes disappears if u click somewhere to check something etc. I never quite know how to get it to display that information again in same fashion. So I always spend some time to fiddle around until it displays that info again in the same fashion. I know you can hold down on ctrl and hover over the method name to bring up parameters information but its not quite the same and it then does not highlight on what parameter you are currently on. IntelliJ also brings up required parameters type of information when you are starting to go wrong. It brings up this big separate box and you can get very clear view of what needs to be done. I've taken a screenshot of the type of information that I'm on about. Both of them are on the same pic.
Please check it out.
My question: is there a way to bring this information up via keystrokes or mouse input at will? I've tried to google for an answer but I haven't had any joy. Please advise as I'm sure someone else might like this information too.
Thank you.
PS. I know that a good code does not usually have that many parameters but in my case there is not much that can be done.
Default shortcut for that is CTRL-P when cursor is inside the brackets.
I am unable to get jsfiddle to save any fiddles containing the word allocation
example
var care_allocation = 34; alert(care_allocation)
Pressing save just clears the screen.
I'm assuming jsfiddle maybe uses some reserved keywords, is there a list of these and can anybody suggest a workaround. I realize I could just use a different variable name but I have already written an awful lot of code.
Thanks very much in advance
[EDIT]
Running the fiddle without saving is fine, this issue occurs when I try and SAVE it. I have asked a colleague who is able to re create the issue
No. Allocation is not a reserved word in jsFiddle. I have tried out and working properly. Please check settings on the left side.
I am trying to get a spellchecker to check spelling in a text field as the user types. I am well aware that browsers such as firefox have this feature for textfields (but this requires a user to manually enable it in the right click menu.
The ideal script Im looking for would accept an id as a parameter, since the id for the field I want to be checked cannot change.
Thanks
My suggestion would to look at a predictive text tool, similar to the tag-finder that SO uses where you have a dictionary, and as a term is typed, you do some kind of AJAX-y lookup to see if they're typing correctly.
Adding a new word would be similar to adding new tags on SO - if the predicted word is not picked, add it to your dictionary.
I'm sure there are others who have done a similar task, though - and this suggestion might be harder to implement than in sounds in my head.