How can I make a page look the same in e.g. NS and MSIE ?
The simple answer is, you can’t, and you shouldn’t waste your time trying to make it exactly the same. Web browsers are allowed, per definition, to interpret... Read more »
Archive for August, 2008
As a developer who works with CSS every day …
As a developer who works with CSS every day, I find one complication that continues to bother me in my daily work. Support for CSS has always been good on the horizontal... Read more »
What are pseudo-elements?
Pseudo-elements are fictional elements that do not exist in HTML. They address the element’s sub-part (non-existent in HTML) and not the element itself. In... Read more »
How do I write my style sheet so that it gracefully cascades with user’s personal sheet ?
You can help with this by setting properties in recommended places. Style rules that apply to the whole document should be set in the BODY element — and only... Read more »
What is property?
Property is a stylistic parameter (attribute) that can be influenced through CSS, e.g. FONT or WIDTH. There must always be a corresponing value or values set to... Read more »
How do I make my div 100% height?
You need to know what the 100% is of, so the parent div must have a height set. One problem that people often come up against is making the main page fill the screen... Read more »
What can be done with style sheets that can not be accomplished with regular HTML?
Many of the recent extensions to HTML have been tentative and somewhat crude attempts to control document layout. Style sheets go several steps beyond, and introduces... Read more »
Why is my external stylesheet not working ?
There may be several different reasons behind that, but one very common mistake is to have an external stylesheet that contains HTML markup in some form. An external... Read more »
How do I quote font names in quoted values of the style attribute?
The attribute values can contain both single quotes and double quotes as long as they come in matching pairs. If two pair of quotes are required include single quotes... Read more »
Styles not showing?
There are different ways to apply CSS to a HTML document with a stylesheet, and these different ways can be combined: * inline (internal) (Deprecated for XHTML) *... Read more »
CSS is clearly very useful for separating style from content …
CSS is clearly very useful for separating style from content. But apparently people tend to have problems when using it for layouts. Would you say this is because... Read more »
How do I have a non-tiling (non-repeating) background image?
With CSS, you can use the background-repeat property. The background repeat can be included in the shorthand background property, as in this example: body { background:... Read more »
Are Style Sheets case sensitive?
No. Style sheets are case insensitive. Whatever is case insensitive in HTML is also case insensitive in CSS. However, parts that are not under control of CSS like... Read more »
What is cascade?
Cascade is a method of defining the weight (importance) of individual styling rules thus allowing conflicting rules to be sorted out should such rules apply to the... Read more »
What is ‘important’ declaration?
Important declaration is a declaration with increased weight. Declaration with increased weight will override declarations with normal weight. If both reader’s... Read more »