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Simply style headings within HTML5 sections

CSS 4 October 2011 | 0 Comments

Many of us know that HTML5 sections allow the programmer to restart headings at H1 and still keep proper HTML outline format. What I did not realize is how problematic this can become to style in an active and growing site. Covering all of your bases develops quite the headache. Stubbornella develops a brilliant heading [...]

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A Quick CSS Specificity Tutorial

CSS 28 February 2011 | 0 Comments

How many times have you thought that you had overridden a style, only to observe in the browser that the old style prevails? The villainous beast! Must I begin with a smattering of !importants to get my point across? Er… my style …across… yeah. No. You mustn't smatter your document with !importants. In fact, I [...]

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CSS Property Order Convention

CSS 15 January 2009 | 4 Comments

Alphabetizing CSS properties not only prevents override errors, but makes you feel pretty on the inside.

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A Panel Apart

CSS 7 December 2008 | 0 Comments

An Event Apart 2008, Day 2, 5:00pm - 6:00pm Read the previous talk in this series, Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps by Jeff Veen, or view An Event Apart’s Table of Contents A Panel Apart Eric Meyer, Jeffrey Zeldman & Special Guests (Jeff Veen and Cameron Moll) Take ownership of browser standards? Everyone is like, [...]

Implementing Design: Bulletproof A–Z – Dan Cederholm

CSS 6 November 2008 | 0 Comments

An Event Apart 2008, Day 2, 11:00am - 12noon Read the previous talk in this series, Design Lessons in Chess by Rob Weychert, or view An Event Apart’s Table of Contents Implementing Design: Bulletproof A–Z Dan Cederholm Craftsmanship: Vermont is craftsmanship by nature. Why? Your impression of Vermont... "I think of a guy with a beard building [...]

Live Code Workshop with Eric Meyer

CSS 4 November 2008 | 0 Comments

An Event Apart 2008, Day 2, 8:30am - 9:30am Read the previous talk in this series, Special Adobe Session: Web Workflow with the Adobe Creative Suite by Adam Pratt, or view An Event Apart’s Table of Contents Eric Meyer Live Code Workshop Eric Meyer In this talk, Eric will be going through CSS questions and websites [...]

Debug/Reboot – Eric Meyer

CSS,Web Dev 13 October 2008 | 0 Comments

An Event Apart Day 1, 9:45-10:45 am: Read the previous talk in the series, Understanding Web Design by Jeffrey Zeldman, or skip to the note's talk Table of Contents CSS for accessibility checking You can set up safari to use a debug stylesheet Example of his personal debug.css Hilight the things that you do NOT [...]