On an ASP.net MVC webapp I’m maintaining, I had the issue that due to caching of older CSS (stylesheet) files in the browser, if the user didn’t press F5/refresh, it wasn’t showing you some message (since I had added the class .center-horiz-vert in the CSS that didn’t exist in the older cached css the browser […]

If you need to customize the colors (or do more restyling) of validation messages in ASP.net MVC, the following snippet from a discussion on ASP.net forums should be useful: Add to Content/Site.css: /* styles for validation helpers */ .field-validation-error {     color: #b94a48; } .field-validation-valid {     ...

Lately, I’ve got the task of maintaining/extending an ASP.net MVC web application that is using jQuery’s jqGrid for data grids on its UI. First thing I noticed was how confusing the search UI on the grid’s header was: Those symbols on the left-side of each column’s searchbox are for the type of search (e.g. contains, […]

I was just examining a MonoX portal skin that our designer is authoring for the ClipFlair platform and noticed that in the Default.skin file, there’s a note pointing to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911717 that speaks of an issue with Microsoft’s implementation of WebPartZone skins: There it says: The CssClass property does not affect the ...