We all know that the battle for browser supremacy has always been a struggle, but with standards slowly but surely improving, the usage of extensive, non-validating hacks is less. IE7, although still not quite as CSS capable as FireFox, was a huge step up from IE6. With, in the most part, people using IE7, FF2.0, […]
As you push on with your latest design, you might find that your stylesheet begins to build up rapidly. Before you know it, you’ve got line after line of code, with buried hacks and declarations all over the place, and some you can’t even remember what for!
So you end up back and forth between HTML […]
As we all know, different browsers display different code. That line must feature somehow in nearly every article on this site and give us as web designers more work to do. One way to try and cut down on the work we do, is to apply the same rules to most of the, what I […]
In my opinion, one of the most useful elements for making a page clear is the <hr>, or, as I call it, the ‘horizontal rule’. This, as with all other elements, can be styled with CSS, however you need to be careful, as different browsers style the <hr> differently.
Before IE7, the :hover could only really be used on links. This was because IE6, the major browser at the time, would not allow the :hover to be assigned to anything other than ‘a’. However, with IE7, this attribute can be used more, because IE7 & FF both understand the :hover on pretty much anything. […]