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

Are there any good html and css forums that focus on writing semantic markup? [more inside]
posted on Jul 3, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm curious about companies like this one that convert Photoshop files to working HTML/CSS. If you've had an experience with one (good or bad), I'd like to hear how it went.
posted on Jul 2, 2008 - 7 answers

How to quickly and easily view the CSS Stylesheet for a site on the Internet for home analysis and tinkering? [more inside]
posted on Jun 7, 2008 - 12 answers

The images on the front page of my Wordpress blog are all squashed up against the text, while the single-post images are not. Why is this? [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2008 - 5 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

Any tips on web design WITHOUT style sheets? Yes, I know that's crazy talk. [more inside]
posted on May 22, 2008 - 25 answers

How do I get rid of lots of extra white space before a table (in Internet Explorer). [more inside]
posted on Apr 23, 2008 - 5 answers

Can I make this work in IE the same as it does in Firefox? Here is the example i need some CSS help with. This works properly in Firefox, but needs some help in IE. Any suggestions?
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - 2 answers

Is it possible, with HTML and CSS, to nest a two divs, such that the inner div has a height relative to the outer div so that other content in the outer div can display? [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - 12 answers

What's that program that takes CSS styles defined in the head of an HTML document and applies them to each element's style attribute? It's for HTML email-making, where such a nonsensical thing is desirable. [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2008 - 6 answers

I have a website with several hundred distinct pages. I want to make it so that I can put a link and image in the corner that I can change instantaneously across all of them. How can I? [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2008 - 12 answers

How do you do this in css? Meaning, specifically, the plotting of pictures in specific spots like that. [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 11 answers

Is it possible to make checkboxes invisible using CSS? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 7 answers

HTML/CSS Design Filter! How do I position two elements in the same line but, one left aligned, and the other right aligned using just CSS? [more inside]
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - 10 answers

Help me learn HTML and CSS. [more inside]
posted on Feb 17, 2008 - 18 answers

How do I swap the order of two HTML elements using CSS? [more inside]
posted on Feb 17, 2008 - 8 answers

I would like to write my own HTML/CSS editor. What would be the best way to go about it? (more inside) [more inside]
posted on Jan 31, 2008 - 14 answers

WorpressFilter Blog gone blank, Admin section is fine - help ! [more inside]
posted on Jan 6, 2008 - 8 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

Why does this text box input have its title flash on and off when I hover over it, and more importantly how do I fix it? When a user hovers over the box the title should just stay. [more inside]
posted on Nov 29, 2007 - 10 answers

Help a design-impaired mind finish his dream project. [more inside]
posted on Nov 19, 2007 - 9 answers

what's a good open-source alternative to something like homesite? [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2007 - 13 answers

CSS filter: IE7 slides my slideshow ~150 pixels to the right, what gives? [more inside]
posted on Sep 6, 2007 - 11 answers

I'm starting a new tourism website for my local area. It's a mash of google maps, with photos and information of a given area featuring some of the neat stuff happening, or that has happened. And now I need some help with the wordpress theme. [more inside]
posted on Aug 12, 2007 - 2 answers

HTML / CSS Gurus. I have a TABLE with a bunch of dynamic columns. The table may have 4, 7, or 20 columns. Each table column HEADER ( TH tag ) contains two inline elements, 1) a tiny image icon for sorting, and 2) a column description in text. I would like these two elements to sit next to each other and NEVER ON SEPARATE LINES, essentially putting them into an inline-block. Unfortunately, if the text in the corresponding TD tags are below a certain width, the browser will force the width of the column, and subsequently force the two inline elements of the TH onto two different lines. How can I prevent this from happening in IE & Firefox without explicitly declaring the width of the columns. I have to use a IMG element for my icons, and not a css background-image.
posted on Aug 9, 2007 - 8 answers

How can I strip out extraneous CSS rules from my stylesheets? [more inside]
posted on Jul 28, 2007 - 6 answers

Having made myself dependent on Dreamweaver and CMSes, I suddenly find myself ignorant of the basics of reusable site content. Help. [more inside]
posted on Jul 26, 2007 - 15 answers

I set up a div with the overflow:hidden attribute and several anchors to jump down to different elements. In safari, this approach isn't working. It hides the overflow, allright, but I can't use my anchors to jump around. What gives? I googled around a bit and saw that float attributes might cause problems, but I'm not using any. [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2007 - 3 answers

web colors question: using separate images for the rounded corners of a CSS div makes the main body and the corners different colors, although in photoshop they are identical... [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2007 - 13 answers

This site, http://www.mydoop.org/, displays as intended except in IE7.... [more inside]
posted on May 3, 2007 - 1 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

In Internet Explorer, my blog seems to be disappearing to the left. I'm fairly certain that it has something to do with my alteration to the original template's blockquote style. [more inside]
posted on Apr 11, 2007 - 10 answers

I have found it impossible to grasp the concept of CSS. A friend taught me to hand code HTML, then I taught myself how to use Dreamweaver. I love HTML and design nice looking sites that are full of tables, repeated font tags, etc. I really want and need to move on. I want to learn CSS, but it just does not sink into my pea-brain. I've tried various online tutorials but just can't stay interested, mainly because I get lost pretty quickly into the tutorial. Certainly it can't be that difficult, what can I do to make this easier for me to absorb?
posted on Mar 27, 2007 - 42 answers

Dynamic content in the Savings Account table on this page refuses to wrap, and forces the Interest Accounts table beyond the horizontal bounds of the page at 800*600 resolution. Request a resolution-independent solution that does not rely on an encasing table. Further caveats within. [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2007 - 6 answers

How do I wish my programming-geek boyfriend "Happy Birthday" and tell him "I love you" using computing code? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2007 - 25 answers

CSS/HTML/Javascript: I cannot get all browsers to obey my wishes regarding the placement of my absolutely positioned footer. [more inside]
posted on Jan 22, 2007 - 13 answers

Is there an online application that will take an HTML page with an external stylesheet and make the styles inline? e.g. style="color:#000000" [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2006 - 8 answers

I want to learn web design. Not to be hired as a web designer but to design my own business site. I know some (a little) HTML. Is there another language that i should be focusing on that may be easier or better or do i pretty much start with HTML and get very good with that before moving on to something else... [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2006 - 18 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

I am inserting a large amount of links and text into a DIV tag using innerHTML after a page loads. For some reason, the HTML I am inserting is overflowing to the right of the DIV and not wrapping. I have a feeling, the browser cannot perform its normal text-wrapping because I am adding the HTML after the fact. Is there any technique via CSS or javascript to prevent this overflow from happening?
posted on Nov 29, 2006 - 6 answers

Help my brain wrap around CSS (especially making a css enabled tab menu) [more inside]
posted on Nov 21, 2006 - 9 answers

CSS/HTML Filter: I'm trying to have a gradient on top, and a gradient on bottom, with white in the middle. I've set the background of the page to white, and the gradient on top works, but anything I can think of to make the bottom gradient show up won't work. [more inside]
posted on Nov 20, 2006 - 8 answers

Can you help me recode one part of my blog / website so that it works in all browsers? (I think its an easy fix that I am over looking) [more inside]
posted on Nov 8, 2006 - 5 answers

[BloggerFilter] My individual blog posts are not reflecting the template used at index.html file. [more inside]
posted on Oct 31, 2006 - 7 answers

Posting on behalf of a friend: CSS Absolute / relative positioning problem. In designing a course website which has to validate as XHTML (Strict or Transitional), I've come up against a problem with an image. I want the image to remain in the right hand div but resize gracefully. My problem is that the trowel image either interferes with the header (is too high) but IS able to move with the page or doesn't interfere with anything but won't resize with the page! [more inside]
posted on Oct 26, 2006 - 4 answers

I would like a "Next" button to be invisible for a set duration of time. So far, my endevors have proved unsuccessful. [more inside]
posted on Sep 27, 2006 - 15 answers

CSS Filter: I was so proud of myself. I can write HTML but could never wrap my head around CSS. Today, for the first time, I got a page up and running using CSS, and its fine in IE, but Firefox/Mozilla.... [more inside]
posted on Jul 1, 2006 - 16 answers

HTML/CSS-Filter: Why won't my page keep its width properly? One row keeps expanding over all the others. [more inside]
posted on Jun 18, 2006 - 12 answers

Redesigning my website, and I'm wondering: [more inside]
posted on May 24, 2006 - 17 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

Could anyone help me with a frustrating html / css problem relating to a glitchy display in internet explorer? [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2006 - 6 answers

What's your favorite HTML, CSS, Javascript web design trick? [more inside]
posted on Mar 16, 2006 - 27 answers

How to fully protect an Adobe pdf? I want to post an exam temporarily on the net for my class, and I'm using Adobe Pro 7.0's security functions to disable editing and printing functions (so students can't easily print and circulate the exam). The doc can still be saved, however. Adobe forums seem to have no idea how to disable the SAVE pdf function.... [more inside]
posted on Mar 15, 2006 - 31 answers

I'm trying to get iFrames, anchors and hyperlinks to play nice together. [more inside]
posted on Feb 11, 2006 - 12 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

I'm looking for very simple WYSIWYG web development software package like JAlbum, Freeway and RapidWeaver. Are there more packages out there that are very similar and very good for the Mac? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2006 - 7 answers

I have a CSS class that displays "correctly" in Safari and Mac IE, but for some reason knocks the font size down in Firefox and IE under XP. Everything looks right to me, but I'm not a CSS expert by any means. Anyone care to take a look? [more inside]
posted on Jan 10, 2006 - 4 answers

I'm making a website in CSS, and I want it to have a left-side navigation menu. It doesn't need to be fancy, just some text links will do. What I want is to have the navigation menu externally linked, so that if I need to change it, I can change it in only one place and have it affect the whole site, like CSS does for the style. My server apparently isn't set up to use server side includes, and I prefer not to use frames. [more inside]
posted on Jan 6, 2006 - 18 answers

What's the best way to do a client-side image map w/added rollover goodness? [more inside]
posted on Dec 29, 2005 - 4 answers

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

I am not a programmer or a designer. However, I am strong with (x)html and css and I have the ability to convert photoshop mockups into clean, standards compliant web pages. Is this a job? Do people out there do this for a living? What are they called? [more inside]
posted on Dec 7, 2005 - 38 answers

I am working on an application that will send an html-newsletter. It looks great in thunderbird or Outlook, and like crap in Gmail or Hotmail, which a lot of the recipients use. The template uses css, which is included in the headers of the message (not linked). What is the common wisdom about html-email that looks good in Hotmail and Gmail? Is there any way to keep the CSS or do I have to start over from scratch? [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2005 - 11 answers

HTML + javascript question. Changing the text-cursor position of a textarea? [more inside]
posted on Dec 3, 2005 - 6 answers

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

Why doesn't a img { background-color: transparent; } work? [more inside]
posted on Nov 16, 2005 - 27 answers

Could someone help me with my website's design and how it renders my CSS and other issues? There is no link to the site posted in the [more inside], rather a method to contact me privately. [more inside]
posted on Nov 9, 2005 - 3 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

CSSFilter: Has anyone cracked the nut of getting a multiple column layout with each column having rounded corners and all columns extending to the same height and at least one of the columns has a variable width/height? [more inside]
posted on Nov 8, 2005 - 14 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

I'm trying to figure out how to do some vertical centering in two different scenarios. I'm looking for CSS solutions, but plain HTML fixes are welcomed as well -- for either/or. [more inside]
posted on Oct 17, 2005 - 2 answers

Why is it so bad to use tables for web layout? [more inside]
posted on Oct 8, 2005 - 54 answers

Thanks to your answers to this question, I'm going to spend the next month redeveloping our website. But now I'm faced with choosing the right tools for the job. [more inside]
posted on Aug 26, 2005 - 5 answers

HTML FormsFilter: I'm building a short multiple choice survey. Is there a good, free online application which will help me do this? [more inside]
posted on Aug 5, 2005 - 7 answers

What's the best way to migrate HTML tables to CSS? [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2005 - 11 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

Does anybody know of an example of navigation tabs created with CSS that will work in a page with centered content? [more inside]
posted on Jun 9, 2005 - 2 answers

I'm having a really hard time getting a site to display correctly cross-platform and cross-browser. What are the best sites for specific advice about such problems? And are there any places that specialize in troubleshooting CSS? [more inside]
posted on May 25, 2005 - 6 answers

Does anybody have an easy way in HTML (or CSS) to layer two images on top of each other, while maintaining the ability to switch the bottom image using a javascript event? [more inside]
posted on Mar 31, 2005 - 7 answers

CSSfilter: Help with weird IE bug when displaying DIVs? [more inside]
posted on Mar 17, 2005 - 8 answers

CSSFilter: How do I get a container element to adopt the height of a floating list? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2005 - 5 answers

For my job, I'm usually on the Photoshop-end of web design, but right now I'm working on the 'buildout' phase of a project in HTML that has run into a problem: getting a certain table to display at 100% height. [+]
posted on Feb 16, 2005 - 5 answers

Can CSS be used to transform an unordered list of links into a horizontal navigation bar which occupies a fixed (total) width but has equidistant padding between each link, regardless of content length? ( css layout tooth-grinding insanity )
posted on Feb 13, 2005 - 10 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

CSS/Flash Filter: I'm working on a mockup for a new company website, and I'm not particularly experienced with Flash. The page that I'm working on has a CSS generated menu that when it pops up, comes up under the flash applet. Please excuse the poor coding...
posted on Jan 20, 2005 - 7 answers

CSSFilter: I'm creating a glossary list on a webpage. So I'm using a definition list markup. But the list is long so I'd like the list to be ordered. I tried using CSS in an attempt to display the definition terms in an ordered way. But my CSS-foo failed me. Can the CSS wizards here tell me what I should do? [Markup Inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2004 - 3 answers

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

I want to create a website which visitors can "annotate" with something more than a simple commenting system. Basically, I'm looking for Flickr's photo annotation capabilities, but for html documents instead of jpegs. My instincts say this could be accomplished with some fancy CSS and javascript, but I would prefer not to start from scratch if something already exists. Any ideas?
posted on Oct 6, 2004 - 8 answers

So I have this home page. It looks pretty good (which is to say, it looks like I intended) in Safari, and passable in Internet Explorer. But in FireFox the CSS completely dissapears for some reason, so everything just comes up in a big unstyled pile. So in trying to find out why this is, which I have not done, I came to wonder: Is there a place on the web that has information about the differnces between browsers and how they render various bits of HTML, CSS and so on?
posted on Oct 1, 2004 - 9 answers

RipVanWinkleFilter: Way back in '98, I learned very basic HTML. I wrote some code, made graphics in Photoshop, saved it all in Simpletext, got a domain, and had myself a website. And, err ... six years later I'm basically using the same method. Help me upgrade my skillz? (mi)
posted on Sep 27, 2004 - 14 answers

It would be nice if there was some favelet, firefox extension, or web-based app that would 1) scrape an html page for all the spans and ids on the page 2) compare this list to the stylesheet and 3) point out the elements that aren't in use any longer.

I haven't found anything like this, and I'm wondering if anyone else has.
posted on Aug 11, 2004 - 7 answers

Hey, CSS Cowboys - spacer help needed! Look here. This is a simple box with three different backgrounds in three fields with no content; the first two need to be exactly 100 pixels tall, and the last one needs to be 200 pixels tall. I am making this happen with transparent spacer .gifs, but I want to eliminate them, if possible. I've tried a couple of things (spacer tag, fer example) that work in Mozilla but not IE; and a couple of things that work in IE (span tags with height declaration, fer example) but not in Mozilla. Padding doesn't work well in either for exact spacing. Can you help me conquer space, the final frontier?
posted on Jul 23, 2004 - 5 answers

This is kind of an embarassing question. Is there any decent cheap or shareware software for building basic websites? I know how to edit HTML pretty well, and even tinker with CSS to get it to do what I want, but I don't know how page structure/architecture really works. I want to build a very basic website where I can have an inaccessible image/media folder (to serve to my Blogger-hosted blog, which I'll eventually migrate to a subdomain) and just a few pages of text. All I get from the controls where my domain name is hosted (GoDaddy) is an IP address and a login. After that it's up to me, evidently.
posted on Jul 13, 2004 - 12 answers

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

Apparent CSS or related markup problem. This page renders mostly correctly in IE6, but most of the content disappears under Moz. It's a hybrid CSS/table layout. I need your Browser-Fu! [more inside]
posted on Mar 12, 2004 - 17 answers

I know I should be validating all the stuff I put on the Intarweb on various different browsers, so I alternately run Mozilla 1.4, IE 6 and Opera 7 to review my work. I tried to download IE 5.X from a 'legacy browsers' site, but it wouldn't install with 6 already installed. How do I make that work? (And, as long as I'm letting my web dumbness hang out, where are the bestest places to validate your HTML and CSS, and what else should I be testing/validating that I haven't mentioned?)
posted on Mar 6, 2004 - 6 answers

HTML/CSS: Damn it Jim! I'm an architect of buildings, not of the web! I've been working on the web site for our chapter of the AIA in Europe. I've been trying to learn as much as I can about HTML and CSS -- looking, reading, trial and error. Our new site is coming along but I have one vexing problem. On the front pages of two directories, some browsers exhibit three odd characters at the upper left hand corner of the page: . Links are inside...
posted on Feb 24, 2004 - 13 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

I'm about to design one or more sites I may need to maintain for some time to come. I've always used nested tables and HTML 3 tags to get the job done, but nowadays, CSS seems to be all the rage. I can appreciate some of the advantages it offers [more inside] but given all the questions I've heard about "How can I do XYZ in CSS?" and miscellaneous browser compatibility snafus, I'm wondering whether it's really worth the effort to learn CSS and change all my habits. Convince me? I'm not looking for tutorials or help getting started, I'm looking for arguments in favor of learning the standard, reasons why my life will be easier after doing so. Thanks in advance!
posted on Jan 20, 2004 - 17 answers

What's the best code-centric, css-aware HTML editor, or failing that, what's your favorite, and why? [more inside]
posted on Dec 18, 2003 - 41 answers

I'm in the process of starting my own weblog (it launched on Thursday). I can write pretty decent basic HTML by hand (in notepad), but CSS wrestled me to the ground and stepped on my head and a lot of tech jargon passes me right by (I'm a designer and a writer, not a programer, I guess). What advice does Metafilter have for me?
posted on Dec 8, 2003 - 35 answers