CSS CSS2 text-decoration and child elements Take the following code; will the text in the span be underlined? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="
CSS CSS Sprite Generator Version 2.0 Ed [http://www.ejeliot.com] and I have been busy updating the CSS Sprite Generator [http://spritegen.website-performance.org/] to improve it's output quality by using the Imagick library instead of GD and as a result this allows a much tighter control over the output. In the process
CSS Bug: IE7 absolutely positioned italics I recently discovered a rather bizarre bug that only seems to affect IE7 [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx]. If you absolutely position italic text of any kind (text made italic through authors styling or something that is styled via the default browser stylesheet such as ems.) IE7
CSS Automatic merging and versioning of CSS/JS files with PHP One of my colleagues Ed, has come up with a really useful PHP script that makes it trivial to concatenate and version css or js files on your site. What it does is takes an array of the files you wish to join together and it will create a versioned
CSS CSS Drop Column Layout Simon Collison posted an article about his new fixed width 3-column layout which is made possible with a dash of javascript to alter the layout based on the resolution of the client's window. For more on Simon's layout see this post [http://www.collylogic.com/?/comments/
CSS Partial Image Replacement Recently Tim [http://www.nefariousdesigns.co.uk] was looking for opinions on the most semantic way to mark up the title and strapline of an author's website that he is working on. The text looked something like this; Stuart Colville, Author of "I'm a big
CSS Beyond the graphical Unless you've had your head firmly buried in the sand you are probably aware of the various CSS showcase sites on the internet. However, if you take a closer look at some of the sites featured on these showcases, you'll see that some of them fall
CSS Minor CSS Reboot Ever since the May 1st Reboot I've wanted to change quite a lot about my site. This version has seen those changes implemented. Though at first it looks like not much has happened visually, quite a lot of changes have taken place in this revision. To make the
CSS Table showcase site Chris Heilmann [http://www.wait-till-i.com] has come up with the great idea of a CSS table showcase [https://web.archive.org/web/20051212153029/http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/] to show off different table designs. Being the enthusiastic chap I am, I've contributed my own table design entitled
CSS Classes on the body tag In Doug Bowman's [http://www.stopdesign.com] second @media presentation he mentioned utilising classes on the body element to be able to affect the layout of the entire page. This simple technique uses descendant selectors in such a way that an entire page layout can be altered by
CSS A beginner's guide to CSS hack avoidance Whilst working on some CSS designs recently I realised that by zeroing the padding and margin of various elements in I was avoiding my pages having major differences when viewed in different browsers. Often these differences in rendering are caused by the default styles applied to pages by the browser.
CSS CSS Rebooted I am glad the day has finally come, I've been working really hard to get something together for the May 1st Reboot [http://www.may1reboot.com/]/CSS Reboot [http://www.cssreboot.com] in time. I spent alot of time trying out different designs and playing around with layouts