special characters in blogspot

have to be encoded

e.g. <

Bizarre HTML formatting by IE

<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%">
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD></TD>
<TD >
<SPAN>Hody&nbsp;Doe:&nbsp;!away_we_go</SPAN>
</TD>
<TD width="100%"></TD>
</TR>
</TBODY></TABLE>



since the 3rd td is 100% it forces the 2nd td into 2 lines because it thinks this is a new sentence

How to make a space in a HTML list

this is how I did it

.space{ margin-bottom :50px;}

<li><i>a</i></li>

<li class ="space"><i>b</i></li>

<li><i> </i></li>

IE9

tools-> compatibility view settings ->intranet by default is on

regardless of setting you can set the web page with the following meta

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

going up paths ..

where the paths lead nowhere  (e.g. /../../../../  at http:\\blah.com/herby )will still resolve to the last place it go up to.
this can be a source of subtle bugs.

Repeater in ajax tab component

kept on going out of bounds
tabcontrol scrollbars did not help;likewise asp:panel with scrollbars

at the end i just added div inside tabpanel

root relative paths

Good article about root relative paths

For in Labels

For in Labels