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These web coding tips that have been used by our IT staff. They do not appear to be elsewhere on the web so we want to share them with the wider IT community

Google Maps v3

If multiple maps are displayed on one page but they dynamically use the same <div> you may experience a grey area rather than the map.

One possible cause involves the inaccessibility of the div due to its style status. If using document.getElementById('map').style.display='block' to show/hide the div there are two fixes:

• ensure the style.display call precedes the coding to create the map, or
• change from style.display to style.visibility

Visual Studio 2008

asp controls shown as errors with message "unrecognized tag prefix or device filter 'asp'"

Fix: Change the HTML Validation - Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> HTML -> Validation, and change the Target to Internet Explorer 6.0

All credit to orignal poster - http://winkyboy.blogspot.com/2007/08/programming-unrecognized-tag-prefix-or.html

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