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I must not know how to phrase this question properly because a few hours later, I still have yet to find the coding that will implement what I want. . .
I do NOT want a continuously-scrolling one-page website of multiple 'sections'. I want to create a single-page website with four content sections, and each section will remain hidden until the link designated for it is clicked & reveals the content. I am looking for the simple framework---html, css, JavaScript/Jquery/whatever (I'm not sure which would be best).
A website that replicates what I want: http://giorgibou.com/

What I am about to say is more of suggestions/tips than actual solution.
I visited the link http://giorgibou.com/ and explored for a bit.
I'v realized that every time when you click a navigation, the URL of website doesn't change. I don't exactly know what tools you're using to make a website but if you're using javascript, html, css and jquery you can simply look into frameworks like Node JS. You can easily manipulate and control routes.
For example: If "Home" link is clicked, then render "some_page.html" without directing to new link or any.
I hope this helps you a bit. Node JS is pretty good framework to consider when building a single page website/ a dynamic website/ a static website.

You can hide all of your page sections with CSS, except when the .active class is applied to it. You can use javascript or jquery to add and remove the .active class on corresponding link click like you are saying:
HTML
<div class="page-section page-1 active"></div>
<button class="link link-1">Page 1 link</button>
CSS
.page-section {
display: none;
}
.page-section.active {
display: block;
}
JS
function pageActivator(page) {
$('.page-section').removeClass('active');
page.addClass('active');
}
$('.link').click(function() {
var pageNum = parseInt($(this).attr('class').match(/\d+/g)[0]);
pageActivator($('.page-' + pageNum));
});
Here is full codepen example to get started: http://codepen.io/StefanBobrowski/pen/PpvBdg

I made a basic replica of that website you posted here, take a look: https://jsfiddle.net/o2gxgz9r/5165/
here's a brief structure:
<div class="sidebar">
<a id="something1">Some Link</a>
<a id="something2">Another Link</a>
</div>
<div class="main_window">
<section class="slider">
</section>
</div>
With some CSS
.sidebar, .main_window {
height: 100vh;
float: left;
}
.main_window {
width: 70%;
}
.slider {
height: 400vh;
margin-top: 0;
}
.sidebar {
width: 30%;
}
You can then do some onclick() events with jQuery, ex
$('#something1').click(function() {
// change margin-top of .slider
});
then change the margin-top property of .slider to negative multiples of your window height (to make it scroll up) and have it animate
Basically there's a sidebar on the left and a content area. Both are floated left so they're in line with each other, and their heights are set to the full height of the window. In the div to the right there's another section that's 4 times the height of the window. It holds your content. When you click on the links, the jQuery will change the margin-top of that slider window, which moves it up and down. If you take the overflow:hidden off of the main_window, you'll get a better idea of what's happening. For more content, just adjust the height of the main_window section and modify the JavaScript accordingly. There's a more elegant way to do the JavaScript without that switch case, but I was lazy.

Though this question is a bit vague, I believe what you need to research is the CSS display value. Using jQuery's toggle method it is rather simple to hide/show sections by clicking links or buttons:
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- These buttons hide or show both sections plus all buttons,
depending on their current display value (none or block) -->
<button class="tog" style="display: none" onclick="$('.tog').toggle()">
Section 1
</button>
<button class="tog" onclick="$('.tog').toggle()">
Section 2
</button>
<div class="tog" style="background-color: green; color: white">
This is Section 1.
</div>
<div class="tog" style="background-color: blue; color: white; display: none">
This is Section 2.
</div>

This is a very broad question. You can look at how the effect you want to use is implemented on that site by right-clicking and selecting 'View Source.' There are many ways to accomplish this with or without external libraries depending on exactly what you want.
A less flashy solution is to have each section have style {display: none} by default then have this changed on button click. If you did this you'd have to also reset the other sections when the button was clicked.

How to hide this button using JavaScript?

We are using a .Net web application from a vendor. It has a feature for user to enter JavaScript and CSS for performing some simple UI modification. They are executed when loading the application.
We want to hide a button on the web UI temporary.
In F12 developer tools, we found the id for that button.
We used this CSS script to hide the button and it works.
#ext-gen391 {
display: none !important;}
However, the id is not fixed. It changes with different groups of login users. So that CSS script is not good enough.
I am thinking of using JavaScript but not sure how to start. Can someone help?
Edit:
Thanks everyone for the input. Sorry that I did not mention that other buttons have the id starts with ext-gen too.
It seems to me that the only "unique identity" I can refer to is the button's position.
How to hide that 3rd td element? Take note that the id ext-gen391 is not fixed. It will be different for different groups of login users.

First off that small snippet of CSS you have tries to select the button based on a class not an Id. Which is why it doesn't work.
You could use CSS
[id^=ext-gen] {
display: none !important;
}
or jQuery
$('[id^=ext-gen]').hide();
but, really, the best way if you have control over what gets rendered you should try and add a more unique id/class instead.

You could try using an id matcher like this in the css:
*[id^="ext-gen"] {
}
To select all the HTML elements that ahve an id that starts with ext-gen.

This should work:
td.x-toolbar-cell[id^=ext-gen]{
display: none !important;
}
if only the number changes, see attribute selectors for more info.

try you use css class name to do that.
You could solve it by putting your Open link inside the #show div
JSFiddle
HTML
<div id="show">
Open
<div id="content">
some text...
Close
</div>
</div>
CSS
#content {
display: none;
}
#show:target #content {
display: inline-block;
}
#show:target #open {
display: none;
}
This solution was used here.
Congratulations #Mathias

Cannot position Google +1 button with CSS?

I'm having some trouble positioning the Google +1 button on my website. The div is as follows:
<div class="g-plusone"></div>
The CSS I'm using is pretty simple:
.g-plusone
{
position: absolute;
top:95px;
left:715px;
}
Despite what would seem straightforward, it simple does not want to move.
I know for a fact that the div in question is being accessed. What's strange is that other social sharing buttons, such as the FB like below follow the same syntax and are positioned perfectly.
.fb-like
{
position: absolute;
top:62px;
left:715px;
}
Adding !important to the values does nothing, unfortunately.
Any ideas?

When Google loads +1 button the .g-plusone class seems to disappear, so try to put this DIV inside another DIV, as illustrated below:
HTML:
<div class="google-button">
<div class="g-plusone"></div>
</div>
CSS:
.google-button
{
position: absolute;
top:95px;
left:715px;
}

After page loads, the Google div called g-plusone turns into a lot of code, but, you can manipulate this button with id generated.
In my case, for example, to align the button in the middle of the line I put:
#___plusone_0{
vertical-align: middle !important;
}
Note: The id ___plusone_0 is the id generated by the google codes. Do whatever you want with this id.

Use something like Firebug to ensure you're targeting the correct element. The +1 button is very deeply nested, so you'll most likely need to look further up the DOM tree to get to it's outermost wrapper. You will be able to set the position of that without needing to use !important or anything, so I would definitely check this first.
Sorry, I would have just added this as a comment above but I don't seem to be able :)

How to set a target="_blank" in a DIV tag?

Got a page that displays some buttons (background images, etc) and they are all clickable. What I want this specific button to do is open the target page in another browser tab using *target="_blank"*. The way it is setup as the href in a div I cannot do this. Any ideas on a work around for this?
<div class="dashboard_navbutton" href="Home/RequestRedirect" style="background-image: url('#Url.Content("~/Content/images/Form_button.png")');">
<p>Insert witty text here</p>
</div>

Just make that div an a and add display:block; to the style.
EDIT: Ensure that your chosen DOCTYPE supports the use of p inside an a element. More generally, it should use the computed style for display rather than the tag name to determine if an element is inline or block in terms of having one in the other. I believe the HTML5 one is fine: <!DOCTYPE html>.

trap the onclick event for the div, call a javascript function, have the function openthe window.
html snippet
onclick="opennewwin()"
function opennewwin(){
var awindow = window.open(loc, "blank", "height=500px,width=500px");
}

I was trying to dynamically add divs that would also function as links.
This was my solution using CSS.
First the container needs relative positioning.
.container {position: relative;}
Next, the link needs to fill the container.
.container a {position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0;}
Like I said, I dynamically assembled the div, but the html would look something like this:
<div class='container'>[some other content]</div>
The container must be position relative, otherwise the position absolute link fills its first position relative ancestor (probably the whole viewport).
Of course, you can add styling to the div or the link. Note, I was using a position: sticky nav-bar, and I had to set it's z-index high in order to avoid collisions with the div buttons.
Pros: whatever styling and targeting you set for your links will apply. Good 'style': doesn't put a block element inside an inline (should avoid browser issues, though I haven't thoroughly tested it). Does not require any other languages or frameworks.
Cons: Not as simple as Niet's answer, but shouldn't be Doctype dependent.

Chaining CSS classes in IE6 - Trying to find a jQuery solution?

tl;dr = "Anyone know how to apply chained classes for IE6 using jQuery or similar?"
Right,
perhaps I ask the impossible? I consider myself fairly new to Javscript and jQuery, but that being said, I have written some fairly complex code recently so I am definitely getting there... however I am now possed with a rather interesting issue at my current freelance contract.
The previous web coder has taken a Grid-960 approach to the HTML and as a result has used chained classes to style many of the elements. The example below is typical of what can be found in the code:
<div class='blocks four-col-1 orange highlight'>Some content</div>
And in the css there will be different declarations for: (not actual css... but close enough)
.blocks {margin-right:10px;}
.orange {background-image:url(someimage.jpg);}
.highlight {font-weight:bold;}
.four-col-1 {width:300px;}
and to make matters worse... this is in the CSS:
.blocks.orange.highlight {background-colour:#dd00ff;}
Anyone not familiar with this particular bug can read more on it here: http://www.ryanbrill.com/archives/multiple-classes-in-ie/ it is very real and very annoying.
Without wanting to go into the merrits of not chaining classes (I told them this, but it is no longer feasible to change their approach... 100 hand coded pages into a 150 page website, no CMS... sigh) and without the luxury of being able to change the way these blocks are styled... can anyone advise me on the complexity and benefits between any of my below proposed approaches or possible other options that would adequately solve this problem.
Potential Solution 1
Using conditional comments I am considering loading a jquery script only for IE6 that:
Reads the class of all divs in a certain section of the page and pushes to an array
creates empty boxes off screen with only one of the classes applied at a time
Reads the applied CSS values for each box
Re-applies these styles to the individual box, somehow bearing in mind the order in which they are called and overwriting conflicting instructions as required
Potential Solution 2
read the class of all divs in a certain section of the page and push to an array
Scan the document for links to style sheets
Ajax grab the stylesheets and traverse looking for matching names to those in class array
Apply styles as needed
Potential Solution 3
Create an IE6 only stylesheet containing the exact style to be applied as a unique name (ie: class='blocks orange highlight' becomes class='blocks-orange-highlight')
Traverse the document in IE6 and convert all spaces in class declarations to hyphens and reapply classes based on new style name
Summary:
Solution 1 allows the people at this company to apply any styles in the future and the script will adjust as needed. However it does not allow for the chained style to be added, only the individual style... it is also processor intensive and time consuming, but also the most likely to be converted into a plugin that could be used the world over
Solution 2 is a potential nightmare to code. But again will allow for an endless number of updates without breaking
Solution 3 will require someone at the companty to hardcode the new styles every time they make a change, and if they don't, IE6 will break.
Ironically the site, whilst needing to conform to IE6 in a limited manner, does not need to run wihtout javascript (they've made the call... have JS or go away), so consider all jQuery and JS solutions to be 'game on'.
Did I mention how much i hate IE6?
Anyway... any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.
I will continue to develop my own solution and if I discover one that can be turned into a jQuery plugin I will post it here in the comments.
Regards,
Mike.
edit: added tl;dr to the top.

Here's a combination solution: http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
Fixes the multiple class bug and some other selector issues you may encounter.

I believe that if you look closely at how IE6 handles class chaining, and if the order of the class names are consistent, then you can avoid some of the IE6 issues with careful class coding.
First have a look at your provided HTML example:
<div class='blocks four-col-1 orange highlight'>Some content</div>
IE6 will apply the CSS in the order of the class names, starting with 'blocks' and continue through to 'highlight'.
Now look at your initial group of classes:
.blocks {margin-right:10px;}
.orange {background-image:url(someimage.jpg);}
.highlight {font-weight:bold;}
.four-col-1 {width:300px;}
These would be applied without any problems as each applies different properties. However, if you should, say, apply a different background with 'highlight' you should see that it will override the one set with 'orange'.
Using this same logic approach, let's have a look at the last class you defined:
.blocks.orange.highlight {background-colour:#dd00ff;}
This class should only apply to objects that have all three class names applied. What happens in IE6 is the first two class names are ignored and only the last class name is used to apply the styling. This means that any object that has the class 'highlight' will receive the new background property. (PS: the CSS property should be background-color, no 'u')
However, if you use other selector methods you can possibly avoid the limitations by applying nested ids/classes [#section .blocks] and/or object associations [form input.highlight]. This complicates the process I know, but at some point we simply need to stop trying to fully support out dated software.
Note: IE6 has not received any updates for two years and the browser itself is nine years old. The browser has two successors and a third is already in development. There should be some cutoff where an acceptable loss of presentation is allowed.

OK... as there is some confusion about what I am asking:
I have been called in to work on a project that is almost completed.
There are no templates.
There are 100+ pages, hand coded and a looming deadline. Here is some actual code from the HTML/CSS all written by the last guy (not abreviated like above):
<div class="block four-col-1 gold black-bg">
<h1>Self Managed Super</h1>
<a class="highlight" href="#"><span class="left bottom">
<strong><span class="text-white">Bolster your<br />
portfolio</span><br /></strong>
with unique<br />
investment<br />
options</span>
<img src="/AU/individuals/_images/superannuation-2.png" alt="" /></a>
</div>
<div class="block four-col-1 grey-light black-bg">
<h1>Self Managed Super</h1>
<a class="highlight" href="#"><span class="left bottom">
<strong><span class="text-white">Financial <br />
flexibility,</span></strong> <br />
into and <br />
throughout <br />
retirement
</span>
<img src="/AU/individuals/_images/superannuation-3.png" alt="" /></a>
</div>
and here is some of the relevant CSS:
.block .highlight {display:block;position:relative;height:auto;min-height:110px;-webkit-border-radius: 4px;-moz-border-radius: 4px;border-radius: 4px;}
.block .highlight:hover {border:1px solid #ddd;}
.block .bottom {position:absolute;font-size:11px;line-height:12px; bottom:10px;letter-spacing:-0.2px; }
.block .left {float:left;font-size:11px;margin-left:8px;width:75%;}
.block.black-bg p, .block.black-bg p * {color:#828282;}
.block.black-bg p * span.text-white {color:#fff;}
.block img {position:absolute;bottom:0;right:1px;z-index:0}
.block .highlight img {position:absolute;bottom:0;right:0px;z-index:0}
.highlight:hover {opacity: .75; filter: alpha(opacity=75); -ms-filter: "alpha(opacity=75)";-khtml-opacity: .75;-moz-opacity: .75; overflow:visible;}
.content .block.black-light.highlight, .block.black-light .highlight, .block.black-light
.block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/block-black-light.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.grey-light.highlight, .block.grey-light .highlight, .block.grey-light
.block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/block-grey-light.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.orange.highlight, .block.orange .highlight, .block.orange .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/block-orange.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.gold.highlight, .block.gold .highlight, .block.gold .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/block-gold.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.blue-light.highlight, .block.blue-light .highlight, .block.blue-light .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/block-blue-light.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.blue-dark.highlight, .block.blue-dark .highlight, .block.blue-dark .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/block-blue-dark.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.black-light.black-bg.highlight, .block.black-light.black-bg .highlight, .block.black-light.black-bg .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/black-block-black-light.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.grey-light.black-bg.highlight, .block.grey-light.black-bg .highlight, .block.grey-light.black-bg .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/black-block-grey-light.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.orange.black-bg.highlight.block.orange.black-bg .highlight, .block.orange.black-bg .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/black-block-orange.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.gold.black-bg.highlight, .block.gold.black-bg .highlight, .block.gold.black-bg .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/black-block-gold.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.blue-light.black-bg.highlight, .block.blue-light.black-bg .highlight, .block.blue-light.black-bg .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/black-block-blue-light.gif) no-repeat top left;}
.content .block.blue-dark.black-bg.highlight, .block.blue-dark.black-bg .highlight, .block.blue-dark.black-bg .block-inner {background:url(/AU/_images/system/black-block-blue-dark.gif) no-repeat top left;}
(Code is essentially exactly as he wrote it, in all it's unformatted, hideous beauty.)
If you can be bothered to read all that (and most of you probably can't - hence my abbreviations above) you would see that whilst some classes are unique and do not conflict, some do. The result is that some blocks which are expected to be balck, in EI6 are blue, and the margins in EI6 are often wrong, and the absolutely positioned images also break particularly when combined with an IE PNGFix to make them appear transparent as expected.
Also, due to the nature of the deadlines, assume that going over each and every of the 100+ pages and editing the HTML is no longer an option. This was my recommendation from day one and whislt the client accepts that what they have is well and truly less than ideal, they are also working to a tight deadline.
This leaves only two options for edits. Change the CSS so it works across all browsers (as this is called on each page), or generate some Javascript (again, this can be called onto each page using an include) to do something with the HTML on every page on the site, or something else tricky. Changing code in the included pages is easy, changing the HTML in each of the blocks in question is out.
I completely understand what everyone is commenting on so far and thanks for those... they were my initial solutions in both cases, and I wouldn't be on here if they were an option.
Thanks to everyone who has read this, but I really am trying to find some super tricky solution to the entire problem of non-chaining classes in IE6. potentially for broader use than this project. However I now only have 5 working days to find the answer before my contract ends, so if we don't we will just hack an IE6 style sheet that makes all the blocks appear in one way on that browser and leave it at that. I would prefer to find a universal solution, but... meh. Hopefully 18 months from now the user base of IE6 will be so low that it's no longer an issue.
Thanks everyone.
Cheers,
Mike.

I think you may have missed the point of my earlier comment. I was not confused about your request but was trying to explain how you might approach the task should the coding of the site be consistent.
For a more detailed example, lets take a line from your last CSS example, minus the actual styling properties:
.content .block.orange.highlight, .block.orange .highlight, .block.orange .block-inner { }
Following the behavior of Internet Explorer 6 in regards to chained CSS classes, that line of code would be seen by IE6 as:
.content .highlight, .orange .highlight, .orange .block-inner { }
Notice that the chained class names are ignored for all except the last name in the chain. Since you had already rejected the JavaScript solutions that were proposed by others, the only solution I can see is to design your CSS class definitions with this IE6 limitation in mind as you code.
This does not make the task simple as the whole reason for chaining the classes is to be able to apply special conditional styling without increasing the DOM nodes of the document. However, in order to continue to support enhanced feature programming in IE6, without the help of some JavaScript solutions, you will simply have to put in more effort to find older conventional methods for the same result. I know this comment is likely a bit late for your project but I hope it helps with the planning process when dealing with IE6 styling.