Posts Tagged ‘CSS’

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14 May 2008

Box Model Hack in CSS

A hack is a method of exploiting the way a web browser processes or parses CSS instructions, to control the styles a webpage. ‘Control’ includes the ability to hide or change rules based on the browser type and version. A hack can also be called a filter, as it can be used to selectively deliver or filter the content, presentation or code that a browser receives.

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23 February 2008

Simplicity as a principle of CSS and web design

For highly trained and seasoned CSS web-designers, bearing in mind and putting in action certain principles of web design is never a waste of time. For designing in the first place is pleasing yourself and users so that they will ask for more.

There are three keystones when it comes to web designing, namely: simplicity, directness, and purposefulness.

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22 February 2008

CSS – tips and tricks

Hey…are you using CSS for designing your website? Let me tell you few tips and tricks, which you can use them.

1) Fancy table borders: It is very easy to create table borders that are fancy using CSS. Take a look at the below table:

fancy table borders

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21 February 2008

Types of Cascading Style Sheets

Style sheets can make a Web authors life easier. Before style sheets came into existence one has to use the following tag <HR Width=20 PX Size=5 ALIGN=”Center”> every time a user wanted to insert a Horizontal tag. Whereas, style sheets web author needs to use it only once and the same style can be applied wherever necessary. Style sheets allow you to change to appearance and layout of all the HTML pages in your website just by editing one single CSS document.

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11 February 2008

TEXTS AND FONTS IN CSS

Before starting with examples, here is a collection of all the text and font properties in CSS and their possible values. Some of them are or will be deprecated with CSS 3, but currently, they all function properly.

Let’s see some examples of this. By checking each element from the table above, consider the following code:

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10 February 2008

Starting HTML and CSS

This is a short and made-easy tutorial on how to start HTML and CSS. It is intended for those who are just starting to know CSS and those who were not able to write one. It just shows how to create an HTML file, a CSS file and how to make them work together. The following are the steps:

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7 February 2008

The need to validate CSS codes

The increasing globalisation and the virtual decrease in the size of the Earth has made everyone realise that the internet has gone far beyond just a medium for communication. It has been recognised as a premium source for data and information and also knowledge. Hence it is important that the websites and the information is correctly projected. CSS is one of the major drivers which keeps a check on the language of the website and presents it to the human population in the language and meaning they understand. This signifies that CSS play an important role in the entire process of collection and transfer of data. Here, it again highlights a fact that an error in this CSS code can lead to a non presentable product. Hence there have been innumerable reasons why one should go for the validation of the CSS code on his/her site, of the many there are a few important ones, which are as follows.

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21 January 2008

ADVANTAGES IN USING CSS

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a method or standards in formatting web pages. It helps you create sites that separate the content from the design of the layout. There are lots of advantages CSS offers. Among them are listed below.

With CSS, you will be able to:

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21 January 2008

CREATING CASCADING STYLE SHEETS

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used to format the presentation of a markup language document. It is applied to design web pages written in HTML, XHTML, as well as those written in XML.

CSS is basically designed to separate the document content and page layout of web pages. It is used to aid developers to describe fonts, font sizes, colors, layout and other document arrangement aspects. The separation of the content and the layout enables the designer to lighten his workload. It improves content accessibility, flexibility and decrease the complexity of the structure. CSS identifies a main method in controlling and finding out what style rules should be used if there is more than one rule that matched with one specific element. CSS specifications are taken care of by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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21 January 2008

Hiding CSS from Browsers

With the release of Internet Explorer 5, Microsoft’s browser began to establish dominance and appeared to be on the right track to becoming the de facto standard. Although that version of
Internet Explorer still had a significant number of bugs and unsupported features, subsequent releases have improved on its increasingly solid base of CSS compliance.

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