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Best HTML5 markup for sidebar

First of all ASIDE is to be used only to denote related content to main content, not for a generic sidebar. Second, one aside for each sidebar only You will have only one aside for each sidebar. Elements of a sidebar are divs or sections inside a aside. I would go with Option 1: Aside … Read more

body background color not showing?

Comment your Bootstrap include and see if the body is applied. You should try to test with the minimal amount of code first and then add in things. If that doesn’t work, you can use an inspector in Firefox or Chrome to see what CSS effects are applied. You also may want to use the … Read more

How to display Base64 images in HTML

My suspect is of course the actual Base64 data. Otherwise it looks good to me. See this fiddle where a similar scheme is working. You may try specifying the character set. Expand snippet You can try this Base64 decoder to see if your Base64 data is correct or not.

Fit background image to div

You can achieve this with the background-size property, which is now supported by most browsers. To scale the background image to fit inside the div: To scale the background image to cover the whole div: JSFiddle example There also exists a filter for IE 5.5+ support, as well as vendor prefixes for some older browsers.

RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can’t be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that … Read more

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