Showing posts with label CSS Syntax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CSS Syntax. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

The Backward Slash: Escaping Reserved Characters in CSS

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Let's say you have an id name with a period in your HTML: <div id="box1.1"> August 3, 2010 is an overcast day </div...
Friday, February 05, 2010

CSS Attribute Selectors

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In CSS, Attribute selectors are used to select elements based on the presence of an attribute or the value of an attribute, either in part o...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

The background property in CSS & What the Percentage Values in Positioning Really Mean

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The background property is not a replacement for the <img> element; its purpose is to set the background image and color of an element...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

New CSS and XHTML Quick Reference Tables

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I'm going to build the tables that I just added to the left navigation bar as we go along. If you hover over the HTML Quick Reference, ...
Friday, March 06, 2009

Creating a Visual Divider with CSS

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As my last post got longer, different sections started flowing into each other, making it harder to read and follow the examples. One way...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Semi-transparent Image Captions using CSS, Part 1

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Transparent Captions: This article touches on many key CSS concepts such as positioning, inheritance, and classes. November 2009 Update: I ...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Styling the PRE tag

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The pre tag is for preformatted text. Text in a pre element is displayed in a fixed-width font and all content is preserved including, spa...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

CSS Resets

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I've always used a simple form of "CSS Reset", where you zero out a few CSS properties to avoid some common cross-Browser comp...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Writing Selectors for Blogger

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Writing the correct CSS selector can be tricky. For example given the code below, if you were trying to get to the h4 element and wrote: #c...
Monday, February 09, 2009

Blogger Sidebar

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On some of my Blogger sidebar widgets I wanted to put the border on the bottom instead of the top, make it solid instead of dotted, and give...
Friday, February 06, 2009

If the Cake is the HTML, the Strawberry Frosting is the CSS

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I thought the flash drive and the Victorian era paper doll kit below, both demonstrate the relationship between CSS and HTML. My little si...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets

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To style a web page with CSS, you will need a document that has been marked up in HTML. Given the document, you write rules to style the el...

Picture of a CSS Rule

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CSS is a document styling language that has its own unique syntax. Compared to other programming languages, it's simple and easy to lear...
Monday, February 02, 2009

CSS Rules

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Writing a CSS rule is easy. Each declaration consists of a selector, a property for the selector, and a value for the property. Below I ...