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How is the default submit button on an HTML form determined?

If a form is submitted but not by any specific button, such as by pressing Enter using HTMLFormElement.submit() in …

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What is the standard naming convention for html/css ids and classes?

Does it depend on the platform you are using, or is there a common convention that most developers suggest/follow? …

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Are iframes considered 'bad practice'?

Somewhere along the line I picked up the notion that using iframes is 'bad practice'. Is this true? What are …

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Spaces in URLs?

w3fools claims that URLs can contain spaces: http://w3fools.com/#html_urlencode Is this true? How can a …

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Why aren't variable-length arrays part of the C++ standard?

I haven't used C very much in the last few years. When I read this question today I came across …

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Is an anchor tag without the href attribute safe?

Is it okay to use an anchor tag without including the href attribute, and instead using a JavaScript click event …

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Can (domain name) subdomains have an underscore "_" in it?

Can subdomains (domain names) have underscore _ in them?

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Where do I find the current C or C++ standard documents?

For many questions the answer seems to be found in "the standard". However, where do we find that? Preferably online. …

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What's the difference between __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, __FUNCTION__, __func__?

What's the difference between __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, __FUNCTION__, __func__, and where are they documented? How do I decide which one to …

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How to determine the version of the C++ standard used by the compiler?

How do you determine what version of the C++ standard is implemented by your compiler? As far as I know, …

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