IE 6 has this (in my opinion) annoying little toolbar that appears when
someone places their mouse pointer over an image:
 Internet Explorer Image Toolbar. |
This tool bar offers some minor convenience, but in exchange the
toolbar slows IE down a little and can get in the way of well placed
images. If you want to get rid of it for everyone coming to your
site, you have two options:
You can turn the image toolbar off for the whole page with this
code inserted in between your <head> and </head> tags:
| <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"> |
or
| <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="false"> |
Your other option is to include this code on each image where you
don't want to have the toolbar appear:
| <img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="no"> |
or
| <img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="false"> |
In the above examples the key to shutting this feature off is the attribute:
Settting it to 'no' or 'false' turns it off and setting it to 'yes'
or 'true' turns it on, (where you had turned it off for the entire page).
For your own browser you can turn this feature off by going to the menu:
Tools/Internet Options.../Advanced/Multimedia/ Uncheck "Enable
Image Toolbar (requires restart)".
Turning on/off IE auto-complete feature for HTML forms
When users first start IE the auto-complete feature is off by default. IE
will ask users if they want to enable it. Once enabled, IE will store values
that the user enters into form textbox and then automatically insert those
same values when the user begins to fill in a textbox of the same name.
For example, on www.killersites.com you
entered in your email address to subscribe to this newsletter, the name of
the HTML the text box was called 'email'. The next time you go to any website
that has a textbox of the name 'email', IE will insert the same email address
that you had entered at killersites.com.
This is designed to make life easier
for the user but can get in the way sometimes, and as such I will show you
(as the web page designer) how to shut it off for your pages.
You can shut off auto-complete for the whole form with this code in your form
tag:
| <FORM method=post action="tagetPage.php" AUTOCOMPLETE="OFF"> |
The attribute: AUTOCOMPLETE="OFF" does it for you.
You can also turn it off and on for individual form elements like so:
| <input type="text" name="creditcard" value="" size="16" maxlength="16" AUTOCOMPLETE="OFF"> |
In the above example we shut it off for the text field called 'creditCard'
with the same code we used in the form tag.
