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Posts Tagged with CSS

Reset Your Style

Eric Meyer has updated his reset style sheet, outlining the reasons for his change in the post Resetting Again. The modifications, while small, are logical and affirm how important the Reset sheet has become to Web professionals and amateurs alike.…

Style Evolution - Dynamic CSS Part 2

Please note that this assumes you have read Part One of the series.

Also, I have taken to calling this Evolved CSS, as the word “dynamic” is a bit too close to the old days of DHTML (Dynamic HTML) for my liking.…

Dynamic CSS A.K.A. CSS Variables

Cascading Style Sheets are an amazing tool, having transformed Web Design as an industry and the Web as a communications medium. But in all of its glory (and it is glorious), CSS has some flaws. The most frustrating for me…

Redesign ‘007

Redesign ‘007 has hit the site, it’s first form known as Ashes. In time I plan to add its alter-ego, Frost. For now though, let me provide a quick write-up on what has changed beyond the obvious aesthetic shift.

The Engine

The…

Firebug Beta 1 Released

The beta of Firebug 1.0 has been released and comes with some amazingly useful features. For those unfamiliar with this Firefox extension, Firebug provides a wealth of tools for developers to debug, monitor or edit portions of a site. Portions of…

Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS

Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS provides “a way to add pullquotes without having to duplicate text in the markup“.

Raising the CSS B.R.A.T.

CSS B.R.A.T. is a great idea, but one that should be seriously thought about before implemented. For those Web folks responsible for supporting intranets, having to wrangle many editors, this is a great tool, but it should be avoided for anything…

Veerle’s CSS List

Veerle provides an amazing list of CSS resources. Link found via the ever-useful SimpleBits.

Eliminating the IE duplication bug

This site demonstrates a few ways to eliminate the duplicate characters bug, which is one of the most annoying issues in IE 6. The bug causes the last character(s) within a float to appear twice, the second instance being outside the…

max-width in Internet Explorer

max-width in Internet Explorer