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Since writing How to style a Submit button in CSS a few months ago, I have found an alternative way to achieve the same result. In this example, we will be using <button> tag instead of <input> tag. [...]

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As seen on iPhone version of news.com.au today. Just thought it was funny because most of us would never ever associate a supermodel with a web technology.

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To turn off iPhone auto correction feature (predictive dictionary) on textboxes, add autocorrect=”off” attribute to your input tag.

<input type="text" id="keyword" name="keyword"
autocorrect="off" />

You can also turn off auto capitalising/capitalizing feature by adding autocapitalize=”off” attribute.

<input type="text" id="keyword" name="keyword"
autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" />

And lastly, you can turn off auto complete in a similar way.

<input type="text" id="keyword" name="keyword"
autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" [...]

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10+ Essential Tools for Windows Based Web Developers
Web development is not an easy career path to follow- there’s so much competition around for jobs and the industry is advancing all the time. If you want to stay ahead of the pack, it’s important to familiarise yourself with the latest and greatest tools- tools which will [...]

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FireFTP is a browser plugin for Mozilla Firefox that lets you connect to a FTP server. By default, it doesn’t show any hidden files on the server, but you can change this via Options.
1. Connect to a FTP server using FireFTP
2. Click on Tools -> Options from the top right menu
3. From [...]

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So you don’t like ads.
If you have a website that has ads, you are probably no stranger to people commenting that you have too many ads on your website. Usually, I just smile and nod when I receive such comment but today, I thought I’d write my thoughts here. You don’t have to [...]

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As you can see in the table below, Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection and Buffer overflows are three most common and serious programming errors that result in vulnerabilities. This list was published recently on 17 February 2010.

Rank

Name

[1]

Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting')

[2]

Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an SQL [...]

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Here is how to create a custom archive page in WordPress just like the one you see on our blog.
1. Go to the current theme folder of your WordPress installation (wp-content/themes/*current theme*) and make sure you don’t already have archives.php in the folder
2. Create a new file called archives.php (or whatever file name [...]

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