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Aug 3, 2010, 1:35 PM
delicia
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just wondering if there is a recommended style for capitalization of table and field names etc. thanks
Aug 3, 2010, 3:23 PM
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Re: [delicia] style question In reply to
Try this (or rather, one of these):

Code:
strong {
text-transform: lowercase; /* force text to lowercase */
text-transform: uppercase; /* force text to uppercase */
text-transform: capitalize; /* force text to proper case */
}

or

Code:
div.uppercase {text-transform: uppercase;}

div.caps {text-transform: capitalize;}

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Aug 3, 2010, 3:25 PM
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Re: [MJB] style question In reply to
Some more examples here.
Aug 4, 2010, 12:15 AM
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Re: [delicia] style question In reply to
delicia wrote:
just wondering if there is a recommended style for capitalization of table and field names etc. thanks

Are you refering to the actual field/table names themselves, OR as MJB suggested with the CSS?

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Aug 4, 2010, 10:18 AM
delicia
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Re: [Andy] style question In reply to
you got it - the actual field names and table names, i.e. username vs Username
Aug 4, 2010, 10:32 AM
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Re: [delicia] style question In reply to
Hi,

Well, personally I prefer "Username", over "username" .. and if you have multiple words, i.e "User_Password" instead of "user_password"

To be honest though, there is no "standard" as such. Some people even do it as USERNAME or USER_PASSWORD (not my cup of tea though =))

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Aug 4, 2010, 3:11 PM
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Re: [Andy] style question In reply to
well, if there's no standard, i like your style best.
Aug 4, 2010, 4:16 PM
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Re: [Andy] style question In reply to
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/...on_%28programming%29

You usually don't put delimiters between words when you do camel case (eg. UserPassword).

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Aug 4, 2010, 11:30 PM
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Re: [brewt] style question In reply to
brewt wrote:
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/...on_%28programming%29

You usually don't put delimiters between words when you do camel case (eg. UserPassword).

True - I was just giving some examples Angelic

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