Internet Explorer 6 for windows has been giving me a hard time with expanding fixed width or fixed height boxes (divs) in the most non standard fashion... The trick would be to apply overflow: hidden to the div to force the browser to hide any…...
Here are a few solutions to the same old IE/PNG issue, all revolving around the same hack: using JavaScript to replace IMG tags containing PNGs with a SPAN or a DIV into wich the PNG is filled using the IE proprietary image filter. A List Apart Bob…...
From htmldog.com: Q: Why did the XHTML actress turn down an Oscar? A: Because she refused to be involved in the presentation. Q: Why was the font tag an orphan? A: Because it didn't have a font-family. Q: Why do CSS designers have too many children? A:…...
"Web Standards"... that definitely sounds cooler than it really is... At first we had HTML and Mosaic... Then came Netscape and Microsoft with their proprietary extensions... and so came the need for standards. We got several versions of…...
Browsing the web for CSS related info often turns out to be a painful search through naive CSS glorification and anti table propaganda... :-/ So I always find it very refreshing when I stumble upon a more balanced article like Sitepoint's "Exploring the…...
We used to have an article here about styling textareas with CSS in IE. It was one more post on the web about one more bug in Internet Explorer 6. It has been fixed in between. In case you still need this, we had a workaround which consisted of applying…
We have talked about the annoying BlogNoise problem before. And most bloggers have agreed that Google would probably be smart enough to fix the problem shortly in order to provide a better service to their users. A great part of the BlogNoise is…...
Here we used to have an article about how hard it was to deisgn an HTML page wihtou tables back in 2003. Since the web browsers have evolved a lot since then I have removed the examples becaus ethey required custom CSS to be injected in the CMS running…...