Browsing archives for 'CSS'

Maximum CSS Classes

CSS 5 April 2008 | 2 Comments

Have you ever gone along coding your front end, adding multiple classes to a single element, and then stop to consolidate because you feared you added a class too many? I know that I have at least paused to reconsider. <div class=”related bug show nojs”> just seems to be reaching the limits of what my [...]

Posh CSS

CSS,Slivers 4 April 2008 | Comments Off

Posh CSS is like kottke but for CSS articles. I love it. Feedreader it.

CSS Off! Event

CSS 26 March 2008 | 0 Comments

The next CSS Off contest is April 5. At one minute past midnight (12:01 am), you will have 24 hours to send your entry in. The winning entrant not only gets to feel really cool, but either receive a cash reward or a doubled cash donation to a charity. It’s fun. CSS up.

HR Image Replacement

CSS 6 March 2008 | 28 Comments

If a design calls for a graphical horizontal rule, often front end developers will stick in an img tag and call it a day. However, an hr tag would be more semantic - and, most rich text editors for content management systems have a button for the horizontal rule. These styles allow cross-browser image replacement [...]

CSS Off Begins September 15

CSS 13 September 2007 | 0 Comments

June was fun, July was fabulous, August we took a nap, and it begins again September 15 at midnight CDT. There's a countdown on the site in case you don't know how that translates to your locality. Yours truly is now part of seven judges hand selected for our love of all things good and [...]

Eric Meyer – Secrets of the CSS Jedi

CSS 13 September 2007 | 2 Comments

Notes from An Event Apart Chicago: Do not hesitate to use a table if the data is tabular img: Treat the same as any other element Set background-color for treatment, as even images have a background Create a hover effect by creating a transparent image and use background-color for hover treatment Tables Using a properly [...]

July CSS Off Thoughts

CSS 8 August 2007 | 2 Comments

Note: I have updated this post several times since the original publish. At long last, the July winner is announced. Congrats. The notes from the judges regarding my entry (I am #12) really did not extend much beyond my own observations. Tony wrote that my .bug class is superfluous. I wholeheartedly disagree, for if the [...]