When designing and previewing a report in BIDS everything looks fine, but once rendered in a web browser the text boxes resize. I've tried a few things to stop this including using rectangles as place holders. Does anyone know of a workaround for this?
Here are some screenshots. First design view:
Render view:
In my experience, SSRS is not a very good tool for precise rendering. I've had the issue describe in various forms before, and can only offer a few options:
Don't care. Design your report in a way that it doesn't matter how it's exactly rendered.
Focus on one renderer. Don't optimize for both the BIDS Preview and the HTML rendering, but only on the final one (probably HTML). Note that with HTML you do have to deal with cross-browswer issues.
Use tables for layout. I know, this is frowned upon in CSS land, and I personally don't like it either. But a matrix may be your best bet at approaching pixel-perfectness, and from your screenshot it even looks like you have tabular data so it's even possible to rationalize the choice.
Choose another renderer. Deliver your report in Excel instead of HTML. With Excel it should be easier to get to a nicely layouted table.
Related
In Brilliant.org, when we look at the source of the pages, we see that they've rendered their mathematical formulas on the server. For example:
Page: https://brilliant.org/practice/distributive-property-misconceptions/
Source: view-source:https://brilliant.org/practice/distributive-property-misconceptions/
But as much as I know, when we use MathJax to render formulas, we should deliver them in original format, and it will render then client-side. And if we give MathJax the rendered formula, it throws many errors re-rendering them.
So, how brilliant.org has managed to render formulas on server-side?
Brilliant.org uses Katex library to render math formula. Katex offers server-side and client-side rendering. As I know, Brilliant renders on server side which is more efficient than rendering on the client-side.
There are several ready WYSWYG editors integrates Katex library. One of them is https://quilljs.com/. When you enter formula, it renders into the HTML editor.
https://katex.org/docs/cli.html
Am currently working on a uwp project which involves using a carousel that has some sort of grid of pictures that can be swiped by clicking some round navigation buttons. This is also similar to the carousel in Twitter bootstrap. To get a better picture of this, an example is shown below
Rather than different apps on display, different pictures from the user library would be shown. I would like to dynamically display the first 100 pictures from the user's library. I have searched the internet for something similar to this, but the closest I can get is http://blogs.u2u.be/diederik/post/2015/08/23/A-CoverFlow-control-for-the-Universal-Windows-Platform.aspx.
How can I achieve this?
Have you taken a look at the FlipView class?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/br242678
Or the CaouselPanel class?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/hh967950
and implemented them with a different data template (perhaps a styled gridview) instead of strictly images?
This is the flipview page from the windows dev center:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/uwp/controls-and-patterns/flipview
It should explain the basics of how the itemcontrol works.
Have a look at FlipView. I hope that is what you are looking for.
I would like to create a JSF web application to display a graphic structure (composed of hierarchical elements organised in a database) where, if possible, the user could eventually zoom in/out, add new elements...
But I haven't been able to identify a single JSF component (or compatible component) to help me do that.
This is what I would like : http://www.yworks.com/products/yfileshtml/demos/Complete/demo.yfiles.graph.orgchart/index.html
But it's not free and not in JSF.
I thought of the PrimeFaces mindmap component, but it is not compatible with IE8 and this is a requirement for my projet...
My second thought was to use RichFaces' Paint2D to manually draw info in rectangles and links between rectangles with calculated coordinates, but this seems a bit complex...
http://livedemo.exadel.com/richfaces-demo/richfaces/paint2D.jsf?c=paint2d
A final thought was to use CSS to display rectangles, but I can't display links and interact with the structure...
Any better idea ?
Thank you for your help !
OmniFaces has a component for creating a hierarchical tree.
Maybe you could use that to display a custom markup, and work out a way to manipulate it with Javascript, in order to get the behavior you want.
If that is not feasible, I'd suggest you to study a little bit of HTML5 Canvas, see what you can do with that. You can get inspired here checking out this is open source (GPL) HTML5 mind map app, the code is at GitHub.
I am REALLY curious how a web page is parsed into a DOM tree, then how the tree is rendered in a web browser. Namely,how does layout engine work?
I guess whether reading source code of a simple web browser (Webkit is too hard for me now.
) is a feasible choice? Thanks
Parsing a web page into a DOM tree isn't terribly difficult to understand since (well-formed) HTML is already in a tree structure. So I don't think there's much to it except when you want to also annotate things like CSS, conditional code, and scripts into your tree.
Layout and rendering is a much more challenging problem to work out. If you're not ready to dive directly in the code, you can read their docs:
WebKit Layout and Rendering
You can also go to this link which has a great explanation and review of the concerned question.
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/
The page linked to by #binariedMe is good for understanding the narrative of when a browser parses html and then applies layout rules. If you want to get a more solid mental model of those rules, you should read http://book.mixu.net/css/
I need to build a custom designed bar chart that displays some simple data. Below are my requirements. Can anyone suggest the best web technology for my requirements.
high browser compatibility
ability to draw shapes
ability to fill shapes with gradients
ability to have onclick and onmouseover events for the different shapes (bars in the chart).
Thanks guys. I was thinking of using svg but looking for suggestions.
How about Raphaël - it's SVG/VML.
It says:
Browser compatibility:
Raphaël currently supports Firefox
3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.
Ability to draw shapes
circle, rect, ellipse, image, text, path
Ability to fill shapes with gradients
yes
Ability to have onclick and onmouseover events
yes:
... every graphical object you
create is also a DOM object, so you
can attach JavaScript event handlers
or modify them later.
Everything in the reference
On top of that, there's a plugin called gRaphael which makes the creation of charts easier.
Simple data - Google Charts API or Google Visualization API may suit you.
Details for all features of image charts can be found on the Chart feature list
You may also take a look at the comparison of the Charts API and the Visualization API.
Another candidate of course is JQuery SVG - if you're already familiar with jquery you may prefer this one.
There's a comparison of JQuery SVG and Raphaël on SO:
jQuery SVG vs. Raphael
I recommend using Adobe Flex. Below is an example of how easy pie chart creation can be in Flex:
<mx:Panel title="Pie Chart">
<mx:PieChart id="myChart"
dataProvider="{expenses}"
showDataTips="true"
>
<mx:series>
<mx:PieSeries
field="Amount"
nameField="Expense"
labelPosition="callout"
/>
</mx:series>
</mx:PieChart>
<mx:Legend dataProvider="{myChart}"/>
Based on your criteria:
high browser compatibility: Flex is used on more than 95% of all browsers and behaves the same in all browsers. No more need to check if your web app is running in ie, firefox, chrome, etc... because any browser that has a flash player is compatible.
ability to draw shapes: Flash's greatest strength is the ability to draw. Charts are completely customizable and skinnable to achieve the look you need.
Ability to fill shapes with gradients - done easily by setting style attributes or a custom skin.
ability to have onclick and onmouseover events for the different shapes - see this link for some easy ways to create user interactions with charts.
Hi i hope this link may help you i found it while searching for a solution similar to what you're looking for:
http://www.artetics.com/Articles/using-various-javascript-libraries-to-create-pie-chart
i'm trying gRaphael, i'm having difficulties on finding documentation though. you have to read the code and use the exploded instead of the min.js
I would like to share jquery.jqplot.js. It has lots of jQuery options, but depends on other plugins such as syntaxhighliter etc.