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Category Archives: CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation and style web pages written in HTML and XHTML. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice. – Wikipedia

jQuery + Firebug = reduced repetitive work

Have you ever had a page that needed styles applying to certain elements again and again (and again) in some sort of pattern. The finished page could have no js either. I just had a long page of tables that the 3rd column had to be formatted differently and it was a pain so I [...]

HTML5 & CSS3 Learning and Resources

EDIT: New links added 25-01-2010 So you have probably been hearing a lot about HTML5 and CSS3 on the internet in the recent months and weeks. What are they? What’s the deal with them? Why are they important and should I be doing anything yet?.. are a few questions you might have. I have been [...]

Horizontal menus from a list

Having learnt about menu’s using lists recently, I have decided to share because I’m nice! Yeah you have probably seen it before in many places and yeah I am waaaaaaaay behing the curve finding out about it but since I’m pretty sure I’m not last it might help someone else! It’s pretty simple really. Once [...]

Centering mixed height pages

This is a quick and easy way to center all your website pages, even if they are longer than the browser window and usually cause scollbars to move the page over slightly! This is especially usefully if you want the layout to stay lined up from page to page.