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Troubleshooting Web Development

How To Fix Kendo Grid with ClientDetailTemplate Property is Not Defined

I worked with a Kendo Grid today that used MVC wrappers to define a client detail template and ran into a very frustrating problem that I thought I’d post about and hopefully save someone else hours of head-banging.

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Why am I seeing rel=”noopener noreferrer” in my WordPress links?

As of WordPress 4.7.4, when you include a link in a post that opens in a new tab, WordPress will automatically modify the link to include the following rel attribute:

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With the rel attribute set this way, the site you browse to will not receive the Referrer in the header of your request. That means any tracking they are doing, like through Google Analytics, will not display your website as being a referring site. You may depend on external sites seeing your domain in their analytics to prove value or popularity or something, so you may not want this new functionality in 4.7.4.

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Custom jQuery Validation Won’t Run on Input Using KendoUI

In our web application, forms are generated by ASP.NET MVC, which uses jQuery Validation and Unobtrusive Validation. I was recently working on a form we use in our own web application, and we planned to integrate on an external website via AJAX. There is a select menu in the form that allows the user to select from a list of items, and it has KendoUI’s MultiSelect plugin applied to it. The form worked just fine when used on our primary site, but when I used this form on an external site (making sure to include all necessary JavaScript), a custom validation method we add on page load to that one select menu absolutely would not run. Can you guess what caused this?

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Disable Caps Lock/Num Lock Notifications That Minimize Games

Let me guess: you’re here because you were playing a game, like PUBG or Battlefield, and some stupid caps lock or num lock notification ripped you from your full screen gaming experience. You cursed loudly and flashed horrific alien hand signals of profanity at your computer.

I played a certain game awhile ago that tied an action to the caps lock key, but every time I pressed the key, it would minimize my game and take me back to the Windows 10 desktop. It was so irritating, so I began my search for a cure.

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Weird &#65279 Character in HTML

I was recently working on a simple HTML project and created the basic HTML files in Visual Studio 2015. Nothing crazy. But when I ran the project in Chrome, there was some extra space at the top of the page that wasn’t coming from CSS. After inspecting the HTML in Developer Tools, I noticed a strange  character appearing in the HTML.

The weird character appears in the HTML in Developer Tools.