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Properties with Colors and Backgrounds in CSS

Foreground color: the 'color' property The color property describes the foreground color of an element. Sample code is given below copy and try it out... h1 { color: #990099; } h3{ color: #999999; } p { color: #990099; } 'background-color' property The background-color property describes the background color of elements. Sample code is given below copy and try it out... h1 { background-color: #990099; } h3{ background-color: #999999; } p { background-color: #990099; } Background images [background-image] The CSS property background-image is used to insert a background image. Sample code is given below copy and try it out... body { background-color: #FFCC66; background-image: url("016.jpg"); } Repeat background image [background-repeat] This property describes whether background image has to repeat or not,because if given by default it will repeat horizontally. background-repeat: repeat - image will be repea...
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Storage Options in Android

Android provides several options for you to save persistent application data. The solution you choose depends on your specific needs, such as whether the data should be private to your application or accessible to other applications (and the user) and how much space your data requires. Your data storage options are the following: Shared Preferences Store private primitive data in key-value pairs. Internal Storage Store private data on the device memory. External Storage Store public data on the shared external storage. SQLite Databases Store structured data in a private database. Network Connection Store data on the web with your own network server.
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Calling an External CSS to HTML document

An external style sheet is simply a text file with the extension .css. Suppose our CSS file is inside the folder named "style" and the CSS file with file name "newstyles.css".The the code to link the html with CSS is given below .. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/newstyles.css" /> The line of code must be inserted in the header section of the HTML code. And if you have to give different style to different attribute you can see the sample code below.. Get the sample source code for "test.html" which is connected to an external CSS named "newstyles.css". <html> <head> My sample document </head> <body> My first stylish header My second stylish header My paragraph </body> </html> Get the sample source code for "newstyles.css". body { background-color: #00FF00; } h1 { color: #990099; backgro...
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Applying CSS to an HTML document - 3 Methods

There are three ways you can apply CSS to an HTML document. In-line (the attribute style) One way to apply CSS to HTML is by using the HTML attribute style . <html> <head> Sample </head> <body style="background-color: #00FF00;"> The background color is green </body> </html> Internal (the tag style) Another way is to include the CSS codes using the HTML tag <style>. <html> <head> <title>Example</title> <style type="text/css"> body {background-color: #00FF00;} </style> </head> <body> <p>The background color is green </p> </body> </html> External (link to a style sheet) The last method is to link to an external CSS file.An external style sheet is simply a text file with the extension .css. Suppose our CSS file is inside the folder named "style" and the CSS file with file name ...
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Basic CSS Syntax

selector { property: value; } Here, selector : Says what HTML tag does property apply to property : Says about the property or functionality applied value : Set property attributes eg : body {background-color: #00FF00;}
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Introduction - Cascading Style Sheets - CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a fantastic tool to add layout to your websites. It can save you a lot of time and it enables you to design websites in a completely new way. CSS is a must for anyone working with web design. CSS is a style language that defines layout of HTML documents. For example, CSS covers fonts, colours, margins, lines, height, width, background images, advanced positions and many other things.CSS is supported by all browsers today. The main difference between HTML and CSS is that - HTML is used to structure content. CSS is used for formatting structured content. CSS was a revolution in the world of web design. The benefits of CSS include: control layout of many documents from one single style sheet; more precise control of layout; apply different layout to different media-types (screen, print, etc.); numerous advanced and sophisticated techniques.
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Read A Text File in Corona

Reading a text file in corona is very eazy.First get the file path and using the file path read the content in the file. Check the code below. display.setStatusBar( display.HiddenStatusBar ) -- read the file path local filePath = system.pathForFile( "myFile.txt", system.ResourceDirectory ) local file = io.open( filePath, "r" ) if file then -- read all contents of file into a string local contents = file:read( "*a" ) print( "The file path is" .. filePath ) print( contents ) io.close( file ) end Copy and download the code and try your self.
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Corona - Display Groups

local Group1 = display.newGroup() This creates a new display group by the name of Group1. You can then add display objects to it.You should declare them near the top of your Lua document.You should create display groups in a specific order. The first declared group will actually reside behind the next group in visually layered order. local farBackground = display.newGroup() local nearBackground = display.newGroup() --this will overlay 'farBackground' local foreground = display.newGroup() --and this will overlay 'nearBackground'
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Special Effects in HTML - Marquee

If you want your text to move with in the screen, use the tag   <marquee> .  The text in between the tags will move horizontally. <marquee bgcolor=pink> will give background color to marquee texts.   <marquee bgcolor=orange width=100 height=20> will set height and width for marquee text. <marquee bgcolor="orange" direction="right" height="20" width="100"> will set   direction to marquee text. <html> <body> This is a scrolling text This is a scrolling text with background color This is a scrolling text This is a scrolling text This is a scrolling text </body> </html> Copy and download the code and try your self.
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What is the difference between Services, Thread and an AsyncTask in Android?

Thread Example n ANDROID -- Timer Thread Example Non Runnable States in Multithreading - Different states while thread is in runnable states What is a thread in java ? How to write interfaces in java or Android? More on Android ? Service is like an Activity but has no interface. Probably if you want to fetch the weather for example you won’t create a blank activity for it, for this you will use a Service. A Thread is a Thread, probably you already know it from other part. You need to know that you cannot update UI from a Thread. You need to use a Handler for this, but read further. An AsyncTask is an intelligent Thread that is advised to be used. Intelligent as it can help with it’s methods, and there are two methods that run on UI thread, which is good to update UI components.
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