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Html.EditorFor how to make textbox active on page load
I am working on a site in ASP.NET MVC and I have multiple Html.EditorFor form textboxes. The simple user friendly action I would like to do is on page load, the first of the textboxes on my view page ...
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Should I show two validation messages for email id in web application?
I have an email address field on my web application.I have 2 cases for this
a) email should not be empty
b) email should be in proper format .
Whether user keep it empty or put improper email address ...
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Best way to show a lot of data on ASPX web page (Drop down list,
I am doing simple web application with a little business logic. Now I have Drop down list with about 25 000 product and user can choose it.
The application will be probably slow for users who has ...
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ASP.NET how to assign to CalendarExtender attribute SelectedDate = CalendarTextBox.Text
ASP.NET with AjaxContolToolkit.
I have a CalendarExtender inside editable GridView control.
I want to do a simple thing: assing an existring date value of TextBox.Text or Label.Text to the ...
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ASP.NET Time Drop Downs and AM/PM Issue
I've searched already for some ideas on this but the answers were totally code-based; my problem is also a HCI/Usability issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[asp.net]+time+am+pm
I have an ...
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design issue (concerning entering other items in the drop down list)
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I have the following question about an interface issue.
I have a drop down list contains a list of items . Sometimes ,the user needs to select an item not exist in this drop down list(others).I ...
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Multivariate Testing for Sublayouts in Sitecore
Having toyed with the concept in the past, I am interested in using multivariate testing on my companies Sitecore website. There are a number of places where I feel we can definitely improve sales ...
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Disabling a control vs hiding a control in ASP.NET
From a User Interface design point of view when is it better to disable a control or to completely hide it. I have attached an example. In both case if the "Enable ASP.NET" checkbox is clicked the "...
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Does it suck to not provide graceful errors to a user who doesn't use the website properly?
I recently received a feedback from a colleague about my source code of a website. He says that it is a bad practice to not handle gracefully what visual interface does not allow to do.
Since it's ...
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Missing popout class in ASP.NET menu for nodes without a URL
I’m having a little problem with the popout icon in the ASP menu control not appearing when the sitemap node doesn’t have a URL. Take the following sitemap nodes as an example:
<siteMapNode title="...
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How long is too long for a script to execute?
What is the max time do you think is acceptable for a web script (PHP for example) to execute before it starts to become an annoyance for the user (on average)? I always thought that if the user has ...
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Need tips for better usability for tabular data with pagination
Just another day i found myself writing code to show data on the UI.
I am again using DataGrid/GridView (ASP.NET),
User Id as link button (clickable) to redirect user to another page.
User having ...
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Logging users in automatically via an URL
I am providing registered members of a website a weekly mailing which contains URLs to private pages on the website.
For usability purposes, I don't want the user to have to provide their credentials ...
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Periodic refresh or polling
I am trying to use periodic refresh(ajax)/polling on my site by XMLHttp(XHR) to check if a user has a new message on the database every 10 seconds, then if there is inform him/her by creating a div ...
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Are there any .NET content management systems that focus on usability and leave out the bloat?
I work in a shop that is mostly .NET based, and we're trying to pick out a content management system to use. This means we mostly likely won't be able to use any of the common open source CMS projects ...
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Icons vs Text for Commonly Used Actions
We are currently trying to improve our usability in our intranet web app. One of our goals is to declutter certain pages which have large Grids on them. To do this, we have started putting commonly ...
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How to use the <label> tag in ASP.NET?
How can I use the <label> tag within an ASP.NET application? I want it to be valid, accessible, and usable.
I understand the optimal HTML way is this:
<label for="Username">Username:</...
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DatePicker for a Mobile Website?
What is best way to allow user to pick date from a mobile device from usability prospective?
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