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View the finished example: Adding style to your rel link.
There’s a little attribute in HTML links that is starting to get a bit of attention lately. The “rel” attribute is a sparsely defined attribute that applies some meta information about a link’s relationship to other documents. Unfortunately, this information is usually hidden from your users. [...]

Attribute Selector Test Page

We have avoided using CSS3 rules for too long. It’s been difficult to justify using rules that won’t work for a significant portion of our audience, Internet Explorer 7 and below. However, Internet Explorer 8 is coming out soon and does work with the features we like.

I think [...]

Ok kids, if you use image replacement to create super-cool rollover buttons, raise your hands. Good. Now, keep your hands raised if you put title attributes on the links to give added information. Great! What is the text inside the link? Keep your hands raised if you repeated your title attribute [...]

I don’t remember where I first found this tip (Hedger Wang?), but it’s a good one. If you are using image replacement, i.e. background images and negative text-indent, you may notice a dotted line appear when the link is clicked and waiting for the page to change (:focus). It’s outlining the text that happens to [...]

I’ve been a recent convert to Design Meltdown. The site disects a visual theme and gives examples on how to use them and where they are being used. While exploring the latest post about sketches for the web, I noticed an interesting approach to the visited pages.
The Breakdown
The site has a series of floated divs [...]