Monthly Archive December, 2007

Descendant Selectors

Descendant selectors in advanced CSS allow you to define styles on elements that are basically located in specific locations in the XHTML document tree. The selectors are defined as patterns, so you can define child elements, grandchild elements and so on. So it’s all related and you will hear/read words like parent, child, sibling and […]

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Categories: CSS Specificity, Posted on December 19, 2007 by Choppr

What is CSS Specificity?

Specificity in CSS is a test that defines how competing style sheet rules can be applied to the document elements. The larger the style sheets are, the more specificity rules can be applied. For example in case you have two style properties on the same element, the last one defined in the document will definitely […]

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Categories: CSS Specificity, Posted on December 15, 2007 by Choppr

CSS Floats - Part 1

The Web Standards Project’s Browser Upgrade Initiative has spurred many web designers to move towards better standards compliant web design, using CSS rather than formatting tables for layout to save user bandwidth while enhancing underlying accessibility, reach and semantics.
Make your website different with CSS Floats
For following float tips and techniques, you need to have a […]

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Categories: Floating Theory, Posted on December 10, 2007 by Choppr

PNG Fix in IE6 and Earlier Version

On modern browsers (Firefox, Opera etc), the [PNG images] halo problem is solved - but not in Windows Internet Explorer prior to version 7. IE 6 and under render the image with an ugly background which looks even worse than the GIF halo.
Here is the solutions, by Bob Osola, a small javascript that fixes the […]

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Categories: CSS Tips, Posted on December 6, 2007 by Choppr

Introduction

CSS [Cascading Style Sheet], is a language used to describe how an HTML document should be formatted. It imparts more control to both web developers and end users over how the page can be displayed and viewed, respectively. These advanced style sheets can be applied to any web page to give it a different look […]

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Categories: Uncategorized, Posted on December 4, 2007 by Choppr