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How to replace a button link using SendGrid Api in C#

I have a Transactional Template in my SendGrid Account, and I learned how to use it here, basically, any html tag that I want to change I do this :
msg.SetTemplateId("0000000-00000-00000-0000-0000000");
msg.AddSubstitution("-name-", "Example User");
msg.AddSubstitution("-city-", "Denver");
The problem is, if I had to put a link inside of a Button how I would do this. ?
<a href="http://www.MyCustomLink.com/"><button style="color:#607D8B; background-
color: white;
border: none;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 16px;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 15px 32px;"
type="button">Confirm Account</button>

You should be able to simply set the href's value to a substitution key.
For example:
<a href="-accountConfirmationLink-">
<button>Confirm Account</button>
</a>
can then be replaced with
msg.AddSubstitution("-accountConfirmationLink-", "https://stackoverflow.com");

Different CSS-styling for different buttons

First and foremost; I know that a lot of these CSS-type questions have been closed, so, hopefully I've been able to broaden the question to fit others aswell. Here goes:
I've been handed a project and am doing my best with adding the features my boss wants me to. But when I try to style a button differently from the rest, the changes don't "take".
The css file works as I am able to style other things:
<link href="~/Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Button:
<input type="submit" value="Print." class="fakeBtn" id="fakeBtn" />
CSS tries:
.fakeBtn
{
font-size: 0.8em;
border: 0px;
background-color: transparent;
color: #999;
cursor: hand;
}
input#fakeBtn
{
font-size: 0.8em;
border: 0px;
background-color: transparent;
color: #999;
cursor: hand;
}
As you can see I've tried using a class to change the style and also the id approach. None of which works though.
I've hardly done any mvc work and this, already existing, project is my first. Is it a logical error? What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
Could any of these be overriding? These are all the css-snippets I could find with "input" in them. How does one know if something overrides something else?
input, textarea {
border: 1px solid #e2e2e2;
background: #fff;
color: #333;
font-size: 1.2em;
margin: 5px 0 6px 0;
padding: 5px;
width: 300px;
}
input:focus, textarea:focus {
border: 1px solid #7ac0da;
}
input[type="checkbox"] {
background: transparent;
border: inherit;
width: auto;
}
input[type="submit"],
input[type="button"],
button {
background-color: #d3dce0;
border: 1px solid #787878;
cursor: pointer;
font-size: 1.2em;
font-weight: 600;
padding: 7px;
margin-right: 8px;
width: auto;
}
td input[type="submit"],
td input[type="button"],
td button {
font-size: 1em;
padding: 4px;
margin-right: 4px;
}
input.input-validation-error {
border: 1px solid #e80c4d;
}
input[type="checkbox"].input-validation-error {
border: 0 none;
}

If this is pure html, then your code seems fine, and it is clear that either your css is simply not being loaded and read, or it is being overwritten at some later stage.
You could try applying important (like color: #999 ! important;), just to see if any of the changes become visible then. If so, you know that the CSS properties are being overwritten somewhere else.
On the other hand, I've seen Asp.Net and MVC caching cause some problems here. You might want to try deleting the site and publishing again from scratch, to see if there are any changes.
Update:
I believe this might be your problem:
input, textarea {
border: 1px solid #e2e2e2;
background: #fff;
color: #333;
font-size: 1.2em;
margin: 5px 0 6px 0;
padding: 5px;
width: 300px;
}
This specifies style for the type input, so if this comes after .fakeBtn { ...}, then that style will be applied instead (unless ofcourse, you have added ! important; to the end of some of the statements, in which case they will only be overridden by other statements which also contain ! important;).
Your best solution is probably to add specific classes to the section: input, textarea { ...}. That way, it will not override other input-fields in general.

CSS seems fine.
Try using Firebug to verify what styles are applied and what are overridden.
I suspect you have some other CSS rules that style the buttons and override your CSS.

Selenium Element Cannot Be Scrolled Into View: (34). Using NUnit, C#

Getting the error from the title when attempting to click on an <a> tag in a regression test script. I've researched the issue here: Selenium::WebDriver::Error::MoveTargetOutOfBoundsError: Element cannot be scrolled into view:[object HTMLSpanElement] and here as well: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/webdriver/R2jwSWrIK44/RaCLRPlKIWEJ but I don't understand the root cause of the issue.
I've tried using By.jQuery, By.Id, By.Css, By.Xpath, as well as selecting by index and always get the same error. Here's the relevant code:
HTML:
<div id="divTabs">
<a id="tabECheck" target="#divECheck">eCheck</a>
<a id="tabAceComments" target="#divAceComments">Ace Comments</a>
<a id="tabReviewComments" target="#divReviewComments">Review Comments</a>
<a id="tabReviewHistory" target="#divReviewHistory">Review History</a>
</div>
CSS:
#divTabs{
writing-mode: tb-rl;
-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(90deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(90deg);
-o-transform: rotate(90deg);
transform: rotate(90deg);
position: absolute;
width: 27px;
padding: 0px;
height: auto;
display: table-row;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
#divTabs a
{
border: 1px solid #CCC;
padding: 3px;
white-space: nowrap;
cursor: pointer;
color: #3966BF;
display: table-cell;
background-color: #FFF;
}
C#:
element = driver.FindElement(By.Id("tabReviewComments"));
element.Click();
As you can see, I'm trying to click on the 3rd <a> tag with the id of "tabReviewComments." However, if I have the script click on the first <a> tag with the id of "tabECheck", it works in the sense that I don't get the "can't scroll element into view" error, the element is clicked, and the script moves on past that line. Sadly, I need to click on that third <a> tag. Any ideas short of moving the <a id="tabReviewComments" target="#divReviewComments">Review Comments</a> to the top?
Thanks!

Its likely that the element is actually un-clickable as far as the browser goes, this may be because
Its position is off-screen (negative space)
Its behind another element (like modal overlay or something)
It has 0 size (sometimes css can be funny, browser maybe calculating size differetnlty to what your seeing)
A UI bug in your system whereby the element isn't visible for another reason

Layout fix with images rendered via dynamic image handler

I am using a httphandler to dynamically resize images that are rendered on a page. I have a preset width that all images must confirm - and the height of the images can vary (proportions constrained to the original width and height). I am caching the images - however, when they are originally loaded, the httphandler is called after the page is rendered - so for longer images - sometimes on intial load, layout breaks with larger images as they overlap the content that is below it. Here is an example screenshot from here http://www.teakmonkeystudios.ca/photos/photo.aspx?id=10801:
Here is the css:
.gallery
{
margin-left:0px;
padding-left:5px;
}
ul.gallery div.top_frame
{
width:732px
}
ul.gallery div.view_frame
{
margin-left:5px;
}
ul.gallery div.image_frame
{
border: 1px solid #dddddd; padding-top: 5px; height:100%; min-height:490px;
padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: center;
}
ul.gallery div.button_frame
{
width: 732px; text-align: right; margin: 4px 0px 0px 0px;
}
ul.gallery div.name_frame, ul.gallery div.original_name_frame
{
margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;
}
ul.gallery div.name_frame h2
{
margin: 2px 0px 3px 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
ul.gallery div.date_frame
{
margin-left:5px;
margin-bottom:5px;
}
ul.gallery div.update_frame
{
width: 732px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;text-align:right;
}
ul.gallery div.desc_frame
{
margin-left:5px;
background-color:#eeeeee;
}
ul.gallery li
{
width: 732px;
display: -moz-inline-stack;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align:top;
margin: 5px;
zoom: 1;
*display: inline;
_height:100%;
color:#000000;
letter-spacing:0px;
line-height:normal;
}
ul.breadcrumbs li
{
float:left;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
width:100%;
}
ul.breadcrumbs li a
{
font-size:12px;
}
Since the image in the screenshot below may be cached you may not see the broken layout. I wonder if rendering the images in a table would be better? Or is there a css fix? I've even tried Jquery and used document ready to adjust the height of the image containers - but the image may not be loaded - so I can't return the height of the image in the function. Any suggestions on how to solve this issue?

If your images are all going to be the same width, output the IMG tag with a width attribute. this may help.
<img src="..." width="720">
Using input type="image" for this type of application is a bit odd. Why not just use an A-tag wrapped around an image?

This is the key to your problem:
however, when they are originally loaded, the httphandler is called after the page is rendered
An IHttpHandler sees the request before the response is sent to the browser and can do whatever it needs, including responding with a resized image. I'm doing that a lot, never had a problem. Since it doesn't work for you, I'm 100% you've got a bug in your HttpHandler.

If i create the image and load it into the cache in the custom image's prerender event - it seems to have fixed this issue. Originally the control rendered the image info to the src string in the browser and the image was then intercepted by a httphandler that calls a cachemanager (if exists - return, if not - create). Since the problem above seemed to happen only when the image was initially created - I figured recreating it before it was 'requested' may help - and it appears it has. If there are consequences to this - I will edit my solution.

How can I expand CSS shorthand properties programmatically?

Is there a .Net CSS parser that will allow me to parse css shorthand properties into their longhand form?
For example I'd like to take the following:
#somediv{
margin: 10px;
padding: 10px 20px;
border:5px solid #FFF;
}
And translate it to:
#somediv{
margin-top: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 10px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 20px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 20px;
border-width: 5px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #FFF;
}
Here is a pretty good list of all the different properties I'd need to handle in this manner: http://www.dustindiaz.com/css-shorthand/
Ideally I'd like something in .Net but if there's something in another language that's open source I can probably adapt it.
Update
Without getting into too much detail as to exactly what I'm trying to do here is the basic premise:
I need to programmaticly take multiple CSS docs and merge them to create one definitive set of CSS.
So if doc 1 has :
p { padding: 10px;}
And then I add on doc 2:
p { padding-left:20px;}
The resulting CSS should be:
p { padding-top: 10px; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; padding-left:20px;}
Because the later added doc overwrites the single property. To do this accurately I would need to take every CSS and break down every property to it's lowest element first.

For regular CSS parsing I've found this to be the easiest to use:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/CSSParser.aspx
For breaking down the shorthand properties into their longhand form I've found two that can do it:
In .Net : http://www.modeltext.com/css/index.aspx
In JavaScript: http://www.glazman.org/JSCSSP/

The most simplest approach would is to make use of .NET's WebBrowserControl along with MsHTML(IE Renderer) and this is most reliable approach too !
//Create the instance of new webbrowser control.
WebBrowser browser = new WebBrowser();
//Navigate to the specified URL.
browser.Navigate(#"test.html");
//Wait until the webpage gets loaded completely.
while (browser.ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
{
Application.DoEvents();
}
foreach (object divElement in
(browser.Document.GetElementsByTagName("div")))
{
IHTMLCurrentStyle currentStyle = ((divElement as HtmlElement)
.DomElement as IHTMLElement2).currentStyle;
Console.WriteLine(currentStyle.marginLeft);
Console.WriteLine(currentStyle.marginRight);
}
Note:
In order to get this code working you need to add reference to Microsoft.MSHTML.dll which can be found on the following location.
c:{Program Files}\microsoft.net\Primary Interop Assemblies\

Could you give a little more detail on why you want to do this?
And are you looking for it to do correct parsing with things like:
padding:10px 15px;
into
padding-top:10px;
padding-right:15px;
padding-bottom:10px;
padding-left:15px;