CSS is weird. It’s unlike any other code, and that makes a lot of programmers uncomfortable. But used wisely it can, in fact, be awesome.
And that is in the applications global so-called“reset styles”. Otherwise, we’re making our codebase fractured and harder to debug because we have no idea whether or not those styles are hacks for a specific purpose or whether they define the defaults for that HTML element. Code smell #...
CSS code looks kind of weird at first glance. To give you an idea what it looks like, we've cribbed an example from aMashable article on CSS.Take a look: a:link {color:red;} a:visited {color:purple;} Translation:an unvisited link will appear in red, and a link that's been vis...
I left an empty class in there because you’ll probably be putting a no-js in there or something else. If not, delete. Also if the extra comments around that last tag look weird to you, blame Dreamweaver, which chokes on normal !IE conditional comments. 2010.10.24: A sharp reminder an...
Aspect ratio particularly shone when it came to displaying videos and images. No more weirdly stretched cats or squashed landscapes. Images and videos kept their natural shape, just as the director or photographer intended. It was like giving every visual element a personal coach to ensure they ...
A companion code repo with over60 code samples and solutions. TheFive Steps to Painless CSS:a step-by-step checklist you can use to fixanyvisual bug you encounter; even the weird, confusing ones. TheCSS Specificity Tournament:a simple mental model to destroy specificity issues forever—you won...
The3px Jogis when text that is up next to a floated element is mysteriously kicked away by 3px like a weird forcefield around the float.Quick fix:set a width or height on the affected text. In IE 7, theBottom Margin Bugis when if a floated parent has floated children inside it, bottom...
I had googled to check if some one has already written about it, but i was surprised to see that no one had written anything about it, while they have listed all the big and complex hacks. I thought it must be because this is so simple… or may be nobody ever tried it? who know...
This is the written version of my new talk, “Keeping it simple with CSS that scales”, which I first delivered atState of the Browser 2019. It’s averylong read, so I recorded an audio version, too: CSS has a weird place on the web today. There’s a lot of polarisation, with th...
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-ui-4/ Equivalent of the code like the textarea will be non-replaced element: textarea { height:auto; display:block; resize:vertical-auto; /* enables vertical height due to size of contained text */ width:100%; b...