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HTML rendering is the process by which a web browser parses HTML and CSS and draws it on the user's screen.

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Pure Java HTML viewer/renderer for use in a Scrollable pane

What pure Java HTML viewers and renderers are available? The requirements are: It should implement the JComponent interface to be placed into Scrollable pane. It should be preferably a free solution; open source is a plus. Its availability as…
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nodejs send html file to client

I use this function to send html file to client, but in client I get nothing (blank page) without error. Something I wrong?, please help? var express = require('express'); var fs = require('fs'); var app = express(); app.set('view engine',…
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Convert HTML to PDF using HtmlRenderer

I am looking to use HtmlRenderer to convert an HTML file to a PDF file. I have seen it being mentioned on several sites that it is possible. However, I don't seem to be able to find any basic sample code to do this. I have added the following NuGet…
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Client Side HTML MVC Rendering vs Server Side Rending via NodeJS

We are looking for options on our team to decide between a Angular based client side MVC approach and a server side NodeJS / ExpressJS server side render approach. Our Angular app downloads as one index.html and makes XHR requests to populate the…
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rendering html to png (server-side)

I have a workflow model. Internet Explorer doesn't support some features required for model editing functionality (and regular user doesn't need it). I want a read-only preview of my model. Is it possible to server-side render my HTML to an image? I…
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Program that convert html to image

Is there a ready-to-use program, that I can run from my web application, to convert an HTML file to an image? Preferably using Webkit, or another mature browser engine? I tried wkhtmltoimage, but it doesn't render backgrounds correctly (while…
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How do I avoid double URL encoding when rendering URLs in my website?

Users provide both properly escaped URLs and raw URLs to my website in a text input; for example I consider these two URLs equivalent: https://www.cool.com/cool%20beans https://www.cool.com/cool beans Now I want to render these as tags later,…
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Vertical alignment of text in container: WebKit vs Firefox

The problem is that Firefox and WebKit based browsers seem to align text vertically in different ways when contained in an element that has an even height/line-height and the font-size is uneven (or vice versa). I have looked at some similar…
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Setting up TkHtml (a Tk widget) with Python

I need a simple way to render HTML pages retrieved with Requests (python-requests.org). I'm using Python 3.2 on Windows. I was using tkinter, and I found a Tk widget called TkHtml. It is described at http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/ and a DLL is downloadable…
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Is a bulleted list item always indented exactly 1.8em?

I made a css-only dropdown menu. The requirement was to have a horizontal bar of items that can each drop down a vertical menu. Furthermore, those items should not drop a tertiary menu, but instead just show bulleted lists. My html has three nested…
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Render HTML to a Google Doc using app script?

We work using Google Drive, Docs, etc. Background of the problem: One of our departments needs to print hundreds of emails to file away, with page information included. We currently have a Google web app that takes the contents of an gmail thread,…
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SVG element rendering quality

I have a SVG canvas which user can select and resize some elements inside. And I use preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" attribute value to keep the original aspect ratio. The original image sources are mostly 256x256px size. On Firefox and…
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python / django - bidi brackets issue in html select list

I am running python2.7 with django 1.4. I have the following code in my views.py page which returns the language names in a select list: python code: (views.py) available_languages = [] for lv in language_versions: language =…
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server side browser

I was wondering if it is possible to run a browser (specifically a browser engine) on the server side. I do not just mean to render a page but to keep a browser open for some time, run some JS, do some clicks or press some keys and meanwhile grab…
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Unexplainable space above BUTTON inside DIV

Preface: I've read lots of articles about images inside a div having a strange space around them, etc. Example #1: Unwanted padding-bottom of a div Example #2: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Images,_Tables,_and_Mysterious_Gaps Example #3: cannot…
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