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PHP String Variables:
To Quote… or Double Quote?

…that is the question.
Oftentimes i find myself faced with a situation wherein I must decide whether to use PHP’s single or double quotes. If you’re not aware of it by now, then you should STOP everything and go learn a bit about the differences between the two: a single-quoted string, vs a double-quoted string– and [...]

CSS Generated Content: Revisited

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Line-Feed Control Character in CSS Generated Content [ novicenotes.net ]
the Newline Character [ novicenotes.net ]

Character References in CSS Generated Content Strings
With web standards compliancy in mind, a desire to program using valid markup, to use the right DTD, etc., there inevitably comes difficulty, and unexpected challenges.
Many times when i’ve used an NCR, a [...]

Line Breaks: More than a Handfull

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CSS Generated Content : Revisited [ novicenotes.net ]
Character Set (aka. charset) vs. Character Encoding [ novicenotes.net ]
Proposed Solution to Charset Problems [ novicenotes.net ]
Using the Line Feed Control in CSS Generated Content [ novicenotes.net ]

Cutting Lines
If you have any experience in programming, or even in simply writing HTML markup, you have probably come [...]

Score “Outstanding” in your Penmanship: a look at Code Style

have you ever wondered what is best practice in keeping your code consistent, not only w/ yourself, but w/ others in the industry? ever wondered what’s best for a function bracket, or what to do when a closing bracket is going to have an “else” clause? This Note is logged for the purpose of providing [...]

CDATA : When, Where, (why) and How to use it in XHTML

References to, and specifications of CDATA can be seen all throughout the W3C Recommendations– especially in Standardized Generalized Markup Language, the Markup Language from which HTML itself is derived (SGML is a descriptive markup for the structure of a computer document - therefore, since HTML is itself a Structural Markup, we can conclude that HTML [...]

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