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php include causing unwanted gap in web page
by Mark on Apr.18, 2009, under php
So, I was working on a new site and wanted to have the left menu as a standard php include:
<?php include("solutionsMenu.php"); ?>
But, when I loaded the page there was a big gap right above where the include was being rendered. It took me an hour to find out that I had accidentally saved the solutionsMenu.php with a ‘bite order mark’ which was adding a character at the very beginning of the file!
In your text editor you may have the option to set the encoding for the file. Make sure you are saving as UTF-8 not ‘UTF-8 with BOM’. Save the file without a BOM and the problem will disappear 
Images in a select box
by Mark on Apr.12, 2009, under xhtml
Can you have images in a drop down select box?
Test 1
This one is a select box with images for options:
code: “<select><option value=”UK”><img src=”images/uk.gif” alt=”UK” /></option></select>”
doesnt work and also failed to validate: (document type does not allow element “img” here)
Test 2
This example uses background colors/images and a bottom border on the options
background images and borders only work in firefox.
Background colors work in IE / firefox / safari / Opera / Chrome
Test 3
This one is a div with images inside like <div id=”divscroller”>
<img src=”/images/uk.gif” alt=”UK” /></div>
I didnt pursue this avenue but I imagine you can use onclick to populate a hidden form field with some value. Could be buggy.
Javascript solution
Some javascript solutions I found but havn’t tried:
Check out dhtmlxCombo
I hope this information was at least slightly informative… please post a comment if you have any suggestions that might help others
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