Those familiar with CSS 2.1 may be familiar with the CSS property display: inline-block. This property allows an object to have the properties of both an inline object and a block object. What this means is that the object can be displayed inline but have height and width qualities of a block object. This is [...]
Nowrap for CSS
Today I learned that there is a “nowrap” equivalent in CSS. Nowrap is an attribute of the td or th tag that is deprecated in HTML 4.01. Nowrap tells the table cell not to automatically wrap the text contained in the cell. The CSS 2.1 specification has a property called “white-space.” One of the values [...]
Proper Use and Examples of the small-caps CSS Property
Okay, the other day I was trying to use font-variant: small-caps and I could not get it to work. This sent me off on a wild goose chase of sorts because, as it turns out, I was also using text-transform: uppercase. Needless to say, the two don’t work together as text-transform: uppercase seems to override [...]
Wal-Mart Does Not Support Firefox
digg_url = “http://designbycss.com/browsers/wal-mart-does-not-support-firefox.html”; On Tuesday of this week, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch pointed out on the TechCrunch blog that Wal-Mart had mistakes in the code of their brand new video site that prevented the CSS from loading in Firefox. The blog post has a screenshot of what it looked like. It would appear that whoever [...]
Creating Accessible Cross-browser Compatible Forms
I set out recently to learn how to create forms that utilized standards better. The first thing I learned was that I was not using a very important tag that actually helps make forms more accessible. Accessible forms mean forms that are easier to navigate for those with disabilities. To create a form that is [...]
Web Site Validation
This a quick post about validating the code on your web site because I happened to be thinking about it today. Usually, validation is one of the first things I check when something breaks on a site. Running your site through a validator is a good way to spot errors in your code quickly. Although [...]