Read the Mozilla Developers article I posted above.  The perils & pitfalls are all spelled out there.   By @Nancy OShea   There's too many perils and pitfalls associated with websites these days because of the advancement in technology and expectations - what next, l guess this animation stuff, things flying in left right and center as you scroll, will eventually drive users insane to the point browsers will be forced to bring in options to target those as well. ... View more

Autoplay blocking is the default setting on most mobile & some desktop browsers.    By @Nancy OShea   Android autoplays a video by default, I don't know about the noise it makes though as I cant tell if the video on the website I'm currently viewing is muted by default or not, I guess it must be unless the android chrome browser does that job automatically. Chrome desktop will autoplay a video if its muted.......ok I'll deal with that because I'm not a great advocate of noise suddenly spewing out of your speakers. I dont see much wrong with autoplaying silent videos as an option whether the user likes it or not, so maybe browsers need to autoplay the video, even if its not muted by default, and do the job themsleves, I'm sure with the tech available today thats possibe. ... View more

People with Autoplay Blocking   By @Nancy OShea   The question is how many have autoplay blocking applied or a more pointed question is how many even know how to do it. In my experience no-one but geeky people, minorities mess around with their browser settings.   Some you win, some you lose  - that's always going to be the case, you can't please all of the people all of the time - either produce a fairly sedentary website, which is useless to most, or risk upsetting a minority and produce something a little more exciting - I don't have the definitive answer.   Does Chrome show and play the video assuming you can't block autoplay in that browser - at the last count that had 64% percent of the market, Firefox less than 3%   As I covered in an earlier post there's the option to switch off your computer sound whilst using the internet if youre that sensitive or are in an environment where sound may be disruptive, use it would be my advice! ... View more

I'm not sure why you don't want the video controls, maybe they are intrusive for you? You know you can create a more descreet play button, which you can overlay onto the video, a bit like the youTube play button if that would be more suitable........shout out if you want an example.   As long as you don't have noise associated with the video onload then I think its OK to have it autoplay onload, many, many websites do that as its all about movement, animation these days, not static, motionless experiences! Unless I'm mistaken Chrome no longer has the ability to switch off autoplay unless it was re-instated in newer versions..........I think you can still switch off sound in the browser, however few will know how to do that and you can switch off your computer sound anyway if you're on the internet at work or home, if it's that annoying to you......but its still courteous to allow a visitor to choose sound on a video - autoplay should be optional, as long as its a muted video. ... View more

So what you are saying if l'm correct, you have to be a paying customer to view any remarks/opinions which are negative against the product, how does that help a potential customer before they commit financially to get a balanced view? By @osgood_   Is that what I showed you????? Are you a paying customer????? Are you a potential customer?????   Yes, paying customers are also able to view the topics. For your information, I fail to see your point in this discussion.  That is my final statement to you in this discussion.   By @BenPleysier   I could potentially be a paying customer, that l think answers your bullet points, clearly.   Let's be clear because you are not, in my opinion. So non paying potential customers can only see positive remarks/opinions which are posted to the forum whilst negative remarks, even if posted by long term users of the product, get quickly taken down. If that is the case, as you seem to be implying then thats my point, it's rather concealing.   For instance, l can no longer see the feedback post l was initially referring to (unless it's been re-instated since l last visited the forum) , whilst only paying customers can, is what you are confirming, l think.   My only interest was observing what long term users thought, quite interesting, a balanced view and opinions to base information on. Of course everyone has different experiences and opinions but they all provide a better picture, whether positive or negative. ... View more

 ln the absence of player controls, annoyed people will be forced to leave your site.   By @Nancy OShea   It's getting harder to find  a website that isn't annoying to some degree these days. ... View more

For your information, only spam posts are deleted. No other posts are deleted and can be viewed at any time by current users of Wappler.   Are you one of those users? Do you know what is happening or are you once again guessing?   As a case in mind, see.   By @BenPleysier   So what you are saying if l'm correct, you have to be a paying customer to view any remarks/opinions which are negative against the product, how does that help a potential customer before they commit financially to get a balanced view?   I guess l was in the right place at the right time to view the post before it was concealed. A little.deceptive if that is what you are implying in my opinion........l just wonder how many more posts have been concealed from my eyes, as l don't visit regularlyl ... View more

https://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=tryresponsive_video2    See if the above helps. If you don't want any controls then remove 'controls' from the <video> tag and replace with 'autoplay' without the '  '. ... View more

I see that you are offering your professional opinion once again. But unless you have tried the product, you are in no position to offer advice.   By @BenPleysier   I'm not offering any advice, I'm offering opinions of those who have tried and tested the product over a long period of time, who dont obviously share your opinion, in some instances. If the post wasn't deleted by those that want to conceal a balanced view of all users, others could share those observations. What they do then is up to them of course.   There's obviously going to be good and bad experiences, different opinions, but I have no time for companies who 'stifle' those poor experiences in favour of good experiences. A balanced view is always the preferred outcome for the benefit of the potential customer.  ... View more

  The reason that I use Wappler, despite my indepth knowledge of HTML, CSS and some knowledge of JavaScript, is that it greatly reduces development time by writing the code for me.   By @BenPleysier   Really, that's not what some of your learned colleagues over at the Wappler forum say, who have been using the application for some considerable time They say its quicker to code at times rather than use the UI, which requires you to go through a selection process, some of it can l assume be fairly lengthy presumably. Of course those kinds of posts eventually get removed from the forum by the application builders I assume to protect the product. I read that post with great interest of course as l've always maintained coding is king as it will allow you to get beyond what any bit of coding software can offer by default.   ... View more

  is this doable in Dreamweaver? By @Stephan5FE6   It really comes down to either learning how Bootstrap works which will take time or learning to code which will take time.   All l can say is depending upon Bootstrap will box you into a small amount of default options whereas having a good grasp of coding will allow you to eventually do what you want to do not what a framework says you can do.   I can't deny you probably couldn't get a job these days without knowing Bootstrap however a lot of developers need educating these days, rather than just following the herd. ... View more

They are BUT they are used nowhere in Bootstrap v4, as far as I can see.   So if you want to change bg-danger to blue instead of red then you need to add the variable for blue to the css selector for .bg-danger. Should be done in a seperate stylesheet, unless you are intending to change all the default variables.   .bg-danger { background-color: var(--blue)!important; }   It makes no sense to change the variable color hexidecimal value ie --blue: #007bff; to any other color, apart from an alternative blue hue, as that variable name is blue, so you would not want to really change its color value to green etc   You might however want to change a generic var value say --success to another color as it will make more sense because the variable name is less specific.   So the lesson is IF you are planning to introduce your own color scheme use less specific variable names, just in case you want to change the color values otherwise to make sense you will need to change the variable name as well and update that variable wherever it is used in the css selectors.    Personally speaking in my opinion you're much better off not using Bootstrap in this day and age. It was there when responsive construction was difficult to accomplish but its simple these days with the introduction of flexbox and grid and don't forget Bootstrap was put together by Twitter (now X), you're not Twitter or X, so use something less verbose and more streamlined - you will most probably end up with 1000's of lines of redundant css linked to your page.......just my personal opinion, others will of course disagree.   ... View more

There's no need for custom CSS code if you learn Bootstrap's contextual color classes.    By @Nancy OShea   That's if you don't want a different color or color scheme to the default options available. ... View more

Can you elaborate a bit more on what you are trying to do because at the moment you've posted some code which looks to be taken straight out of the 1970's.   What information are you intending to put in the overlays? onmouseover won't work on mobile devices. Is this some kind of information the user will see before they click through to the 'computer' or 'consoles' page as I see you have anchor tags in the mix as well? ... View more

  Any way around this?   By @Dan Roman   Host your image/s locally if they are curently remotely hosted on an unsecure server and you're attempting to pull them into a remotely secured website. Your web pages are on a secure server, so you have informed, so why not host your images on the secure server as well? ... View more

Removing a class of row and replacing it with row-a will upset the Bootstrap grid system. I thought that you would have understood this. By @BenPleysier   Geez............ I know you're an octo and I should be more receptive at times but its hard given some of your responses - but give me some credit. ... View more

  I was using it as an example, it could have been margin, padding etc in a definition that Bootstrap doesnt offer. By @osgood_   See https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/utilities/spacing/#margin-and-padding. It even has vertical and horizontal gutters. Please give advice that you know about.     By @BenPleysier   By definition I meant a 'value' that was not covered in Bootstrap as default. Bootstrap only offers a limited amount of options for spacing and margin. Whilst these may be enough in most cases it doesnt cover ALL options and it may be that you need to create your own to satisfy your own requirement rather than that of a framework. In which case I am providing advice I know about as opposed to being a bit short-sighted, given you actually use Bootstrap.     In your eyes  my example might be a bad workflow because you like to clutter your html with excessive amounts of class names and use workflows which are more applicable to multi billion dollar companies, you've been hood winked, only now are the next generation of developers starting to question this foolish approach. By @osgood_   Again, please do not give false information. You do not know me, let alone what I like. Please supply proof of where the next generation of developers are starting to question this approach.   By @BenPleysier   I don't know what false information you think I'm giving? Do you ever read the comments on developers youtube videos, read any developer blogs? There is clear discontent about todays workflows in a number of them.    Your example makes no sense because if I should want to change the background colour to green you would have to update your entire class names,  both in the css and html and color value to reflect the color change whereas l would only have to update the color value. By @osgood_   Would I? What is wrong with with assigning another colour to the selector bg-red? Maybe the selector name was ill chosen. Maybe it should have been bg-mychoice. At least it can be used multiple times unlike an ID.   By @BenPleysier   Yes, that is what a very poor developer would do, use a specific css class name which has nothing to do with the css definition it contains.....red/green.........humm, saying my workflow was bad and putting forward an even worse one well I'll leave it there.    My example was a specific use case where one might want to target specific classes in a specific container as a result of a possible css conflict........a great solution, I think.   All Im trying to do is work out why the OPs rows are not what is expected - after all, a row in Bootstrap 4/5 is only a flex container so there should not be an issue if the OP is just using Bootstrap only. The issue may ocur if the framework has been introduced later or a custom class has been deployed which has the same name as a Bootstrap class. Maybe well find out. ... View more

Because the OP is using Bootstrap, changing the colour to red can be done by adding a class called bg-danger as in          <div class="row -bg-danger">     But even if this was not a Bootstrap project, the following is a bad workflow:     #myIdName .row { background-color: red; }        I was using it as an example, it could have been margin, padding etc in a definition that Bootstrap doesnt offer. I was trying to determine IF the whole layout is using Bootstrap or has Bootstrap been introduced later on which is then causing havoc with css styles already set as custom values.   In your eyes  my example might be a bad workflow because you like to clutter your html with excessive amounts of class names and use workflows which are more applicable to multi billion dollar companies, you've been hood winked, only now are the next generation of developers starting to question this foolish approach.   Your example makes no sense because if I should want to change the background colour to green you would have to update your entire class names,  both in the css and html and color value to reflect the color change whereas l would only have to update the color value. ... View more

Are you saying you created a custom class yourself named 'row' then added the Bootstrap default css to your page afterwards, which also has a class name of 'row'?   In that case if the custom class 'row' is in a parent container then you can target those 'rows' within that container by giving the container an id   #myIdName .row { background-color: red; }    If your page has been built using Bootstrap css only then there is probably a Bootstrap utility class that you can use to style the rows how you require them to be. You mention when you changed 'row' to 'row_a' your elements become stacked, adding display: flex; to your 'row_a' css styles will force those elements to render side by side.   Without actually seeing the code and css you are using it becomes a guessing  game.       ... View more

It is not possible to diagnose the problem by just looking at a screen shot image. It looks like you have set a specific height on one of the navigation elements. By default Bootstrap, without altering or adding any css, will work as expected.   If you can upload the page to a remote server and provide a link to that or post the code AND any css related to the page in the forum, someone should be able to help you further.     ... View more

How can I get v5.3 dreanweaver cam with what I loaded By @joe34597425kw29   Well even the Bootstrap 5 official website doesn't have links to v5.3 css/javascript........it's still at v5.0..........hmmm. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/getting-started/introduction/    If you want version 5.3 then copy the links to the css/javascript from a hosted cdn website and paste them in your Dreamweaver page: https://cdnjs.com/libraries/bootstrap/5.3.2    However you will not be able to use any of the default layouts or css styling which is included in the current version of Dreamweaver as they are for version 4 of Bootstrap............so you'll need to consult the official Bootstrap 5 website for any components and css classes you wish to use.   I don't think this is going to be suited to you so you may want to consider to continue to use version 4 which is the current version in Dreamweaver. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with using version 4 if you don't care much about whether you use jquery or javascript and are not  a serious developer. For serious developers then they should be using version 5 going forward.   You could also consider using a different editor should you want Bootstrap 5 included as default which may help depending upon your skill and knowledge.   What is it that jquery ui tabs offer that draws you to want to use them as opposed to the Bootstrap tabs in v4 or v5?       ... View more

If you require a visual experience then it's hard to replace Dreamweaver, Wappler editor offers that option as does the Pinegrow editor.   As for pro developers,  l think VS Code editor is considered the current most popular choice of editors, it's pretty good and it's free, which is probably why it's so popular.   There's also Sublime Text editor which seems to have faded into the background a little bit since the arrival of VS Code but l think it's still being actively developed and is a good editor for pro coders.   Try Web Storm editor or if youre a php developer Php Storm editor. They are commercial products, personally I haven't found any paid for code editor or free one which rivals them. No visual experience of course, their market position is pro coders.   I don't no what you do but if youre also a technical writer then bbedit may be of interest, although its Mac only. ... View more

I don't know if Dreamweaver shows absolutely positioned divs correctly in design/layout view but if you view the page in a browser they should be in the correct position. Having said that using absolutely positioned divs for the main structure of a web page is unstable and that's not the worflow which should be used. Absolutely positioned divs can be useful in certain situations and should only be used very sparingly. ... View more