Myth: You can't have a string literal stretch across two lines of text in JavaScript. Fact: You can have multiline string literals in JavaScript in all browsers. Multiline (or is it "multi-line"?) strings are a fringe feature of programming languages. They are very rarely needed, so a lot of languages don't support them at all (VB.NET). And even when a language does support them (C#), most programmers are not even aware of that. How often have you seen something like this in re...

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" If you set a default style for the td tag in your stylesheet, like this, td {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #333333;} then this will be used in your tab strip, no matter what style you create for the tab items " Questions like this are quite common in forums and support calls. An obvious way to avoid this conflict is to not have a default style for TD tags. However, this is not always practical - default TD style definitions are quite common, somet...

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Much buzz has already been created around new client-side localization features introduced with ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2. Most of it has focused on localized resources, which can now easily be retrieved from the server by client scripts. This makes sense - resources are arguably the most important aspect of localization. But not from a web control developer's point of view. When developing web controls, we deal with little actual content - for the most part, we are providing form for our customer...

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I recently read a post in [Bertrand Le Roy's blog] titled [A nice and compact way to coerce to Boolean in JavaScript] . Having used JavaScript extensively for the past few years, I knew from the title what the post would be about - the lovely double negation: !!somevariable - the shortest way to say "parse boolean" in JavaScript. While the trick was not new to me, the blog post did give me the idea to share a couple of similar tips: Type Conversions A compact way to convert to inte...

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