I need some help with a CSS/HTML issue as well as an Internet Explorer issue. [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2008 - 6 answers

CSS, JQuery, PHP and Caching: What are the best practices for creating dynamic CSS with JQuery and PHP? Examples inside. [more inside]
posted on Aug 20, 2008 - 7 answers

How can I get the CSS "color" property to choose randomly between a prelisted set of colors? [more inside]
posted on Aug 14, 2008 - 6 answers

I am seeking some very specific CSS advice. [more inside]
posted on Jul 11, 2008 - 15 answers

What's wrong with my CSS that makes top the nav render like this or this on some browsers, and how can I fix it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 15 answers

Idea Filter: I need to create a six-page website for a term project in web design at uni (intro level). What to do it on? [more inside]
posted on Jun 29, 2008 - 14 answers

I'm looking for an objectively assessed survey of websites which use css-based positioning versus tables as layout. [more inside]
posted on Jun 12, 2008 - 8 answers

I have Firefox 3 color options set so that visited links turn a dark Grey when clicked, every site seems to work with this but the sender and subject lines in Gmail.. What's strange is the links on the left hand side of the Gmail page (Inbox, starred, sent mail, drafts, etc ) go dark when clicked on. Does anyone know if Google uses some special CSS or something on the right hand side, can this be overridden so the visited links will turn the Grey I have checked?
posted on Jun 6, 2008 - 6 answers

Wordpress/web design problem-my custom template is screwed up and I can't figure out how to fix it. Please help. [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2008 - 9 answers

What's causing these unruly line heights in my web page and how do I solve it? [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2008 - 10 answers

What should I put in a custom browser stylesheet to override and Aquify all web form element styles (buttons, text fields, etc.) in Safari 3.0.4? I'd like to undo custom properties like colors, fonts, and borders, and make all form elements display natively, using Aqua, like Safari used to do in previous versions. I'm essentially looking for the opposite answer to this question, using a custom userContent.css-esque stylesheet. (Thanks for your help.)
posted on Jan 28, 2008 - 1 answers

Semantic markup and the world wide web: non-noob needs an explanation. What is all this semantic markup talk about, and where can I learn more? [more inside]
posted on Dec 22, 2007 - 9 answers

CSS: What's the deal with positioning? [more inside]
posted on Sep 18, 2007 - 11 answers

Wanted: 'WAI for dummkopfs'. Please recommend your favourite dead tree books on web design, usability, accessibility - or anything you wish the average corporate webmaster knew. [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2007 - 10 answers

With Javascript, CSS or anything else, can I make different categories of link text on the same web page behave differently? Specifically, if I wanted to make a page listing some links I need to visit daily, some I need to visit weekly and some I need to visit monthly -- could I make each category of link text change from "visited" color back to "unvisited" color after the appropriate number of days? Or if this can't be done, how would you solve this need (in a visual way, rather than just "keep a list manually of when you visit each")?
posted on Jun 21, 2007 - 9 answers

In making a gallery page for a website, what is the easiest way to have a scrolling area for clickable thumbnails that bring up a larger image, as well as some information about the image, in a table cell above? Specifics, examples, many self links, and my (mangled) code so far available inside. [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2007 - 5 answers

What's the best way to have a CSS rule apply only to Safari? [more inside]
posted on Apr 19, 2007 - 12 answers

Is CSS and standards-based design ready for use in web-based enterprise software solutions? [more inside]
posted on Mar 6, 2007 - 21 answers

I run a website and am having a little difficulty getting the CSS to work properly in Internet Explorer. I am trying to implement the search field into a little 'pop-up' in the navigation. It works properly in FireFox and Safari, but in IE for Windows the pop-up shifts diagonally instead of directly below. Any ideas on how to fix this?
posted on Feb 16, 2007 - 3 answers

I want to float a css element to the right and have the left side get cropped when I shrink the window size. [more inside]
posted on Jan 2, 2007 - 6 answers

Web Code Filter: Is there an excepted and conventional way to load a new HTML document within a DIV tag when a user clicks on an image outside of said DIV? [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2006 - 8 answers

CSS, 3-column layout, max-width on the centre column, side columns "sticking" to the centre column. Possible? [more inside]
posted on Jun 17, 2006 - 8 answers

Tell me what web-forms really, really impress you. I'm stuck in "form-developer" block mode, and after muddling through mountains and mountains of layouts and best practises sites, I think I'm about to explode. [more inside]
posted on May 29, 2006 - 13 answers

Very wonkish CSS question: how do I keep the left edge of a DIV visible, despite how small a user makes the browser viewport? [more inside]
posted on May 2, 2006 - 10 answers

High-quality, standards-compliant instructor-led XHTML/CSS print courseware. [more inside]
posted on Mar 15, 2006 - 8 answers

CSS help: If I have an element that contains two other elements that add up to less width than the container element, should the container element's background color not be visible between those elements? [more inside]
posted on Jan 25, 2006 - 7 answers

Is there an application for Internet Explorers on Windows that will let you click on or select a page element and view the cascading css rules that are being applied to that element? (Something similar to the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox or Xyle scope for Safari).
posted on Dec 23, 2005 - 7 answers

WebDevFilter: Why do some gifs GIFs *not* appear in Windows/IE, but do appear in Win/FireFox Mac/Safari and Mac/FireFox? Specific example inside. [more inside]
posted on Dec 20, 2005 - 22 answers

How far do I have to go to make my website accessible? [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2005 - 30 answers

I need to hire a web developer type person. [more inside]
posted on Nov 29, 2005 - 15 answers

Why does IE hate my website? I've got it looking decent in Safari and Firefox, but it looks hideous in Explorer. Having done a fair amount of Googling, I've come to the conclusion that it's probably related to one of Explorer's notorious CSS rendering bugs, but my self-taught CSS and HTML is not enough to enable me to pinpoint and solve the problem. [more inside]
posted on Nov 9, 2005 - 15 answers

Design ideas for a web based application? Great web-apps? I've got artist's block. [more inside]
posted on Nov 7, 2005 - 14 answers

CSS Problem: I've been remaking my portfolio for way to long and I have a final css glitch I haven't been able to figure out. [more inside]
posted on Sep 28, 2005 - 4 answers

What are some good intermediate to advanced CSS resources in dead-tree form? [more inside]
posted on Aug 16, 2005 - 7 answers

CSS with dynamic content. I'm trying to create a web page using CSS and text pulled from a database, so that it looks like this: http://www.blogfucker.com/junk/css_help.gif. "Image 2" is simply floated left. Very simple to do with static content. But this is for a client who will only be able to edit the text, which will be entered as a single block of text. How do I throw a floated image in there so it shows up roughly in the middle of the page? I've considered writing a script to count the number of paragraphs (or even characters) and dividing by two, and throwing it in that way. But I feel there must be a simpler way.
posted on Jun 28, 2005 - 2 answers

In CSS, is there any way to make the background image have a set distance from the bottom of the div? [more inside]
posted on Apr 7, 2005 - 14 answers

Could you recommend a good guestbook tutorial? I’ve seen the problems with hosted guestbooks (server downtime, data erased without warning) and I’d like to learn how to build my own. I would like my guestbook to be configurable with CSS and as simple as possible.
posted on Feb 4, 2005 - 6 answers

CSSFilter: I'm a long-time Web wonk looking to become a CSS maven - my next gig is the development and implementation of a completely modern, table-less design for a fairly big company.

What learning resources out there (on the Web, in print, or otherwise) are the best for someone looking to master the techniques espoused by places like the CSS Zen Garden? What new tools should I consider using? One thing I'm having trouble with in particular: how does the designer mock up a fully CSS/XHTML design? It seems more counterintuitive than the old process of design -> cut-up into table-based layout.
posted on Jan 8, 2005 - 20 answers

CSSPopupFilter. I adore parenthetical comments, but they clutter up my writing, so in one of my projects, I pulled them out as endnotes. Then I discovered a clever way of doing them as css popups. But am I happy? No. [mi]
posted on Dec 22, 2004 - 10 answers

How do you ensure consistent yet accesible font sizes across platforms using CSS?
I have a site where I set the SIZE attribute of the BODY tag to 80%, and then set all the other font sizes using ems, which in theory should give me consistent fonts while allowing people to change the font size (which is why I don't just use pixels for the whole thing).
Unfortunately, in IE 5, this results in way too large fonts.
What's your method?
posted on Nov 26, 2004 - 7 answers

CSS, XML, XHTML: What are some good books to bone up on newer technologies for someone who already knows the basics of web design?
posted on Nov 26, 2004 - 12 answers

HTML/CSS question. [MI]
posted on Nov 2, 2004 - 6 answers

CSS Headaches: Hours into a redesign, everything is looking great in Safari and Firefox - is almost looking right in IE Mac, but is simply not functioning properly on the Windows side. Box model hacks are failing me. [A little more inside]
posted on Aug 22, 2004 - 15 answers

How you do you usually set font sizes in CSS? [more inside]
posted on Jun 24, 2004 - 11 answers

CSS question. Usually, I can figure these things out. This one has me stumped. I know its a box model problem, but none of the usual fixes seem to fix it. Everything looks right in Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera. Bigger, better explanation inside, along with some code.
posted on May 26, 2004 - 12 answers

CSS or maybe PHP question about limiting the display size of content. More inside, of course.
posted on Feb 17, 2004 - 8 answers

Wanted: list of canonical, essential mailing lists/discussion groups for web development, a lá css-discuss. [more inside]
posted on Feb 5, 2004 - 4 answers

CSS Question: is it possible to redefine a tag only within the context of a certain class?

For instance, if I have a class called text1, could I specify that any [a] element which is contained in a [span] with the text1 class have certain properties?

I know I could define it for each a with an a.text1 selector, what I want is to not have to set a class for each a element, but rather just wrap them all in the span.
posted on Jan 5, 2004 - 4 answers