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Category Archives: HTML

HTML, an initialism for Hypertext Mark-up Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document—by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, etc.—and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. – Wikipedia

ie 7 min-width and button bug

A bug for anyone needing ie7 compatible forms using a min-width on the buttons. This also affects ie8 running in compatibility mode. input.submitbutton { min-width: 100px; } If you are using a min-width for your form submit buttons then sadly ie7 will align button text to the right of the button. It is un-fixable with [...]

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 [...]

Meta Tags

The tags in question are META tags. They are the bits of code that sit in between the <HEAD> </HEAD> tags and tell search engines whats in a page (except google which actually reads a pages text content).