Advanced CSS Design Resources – last-child.com

Sorry Jeffrey Zeldman for twisting your words, but they rang through my mind when I saw the latest missive from Joe Clark, the WCAG Samarai. Zeldman led the troops through the battle over standards guerrilla war against the browsers. Now Joe is doffing his commanders uniform, I’m hoping it’s a rather smart one with sophisticated [...]

The <span> tag is often avoided by developers at all costs. It carries no semantic or presentational value and exisits solely as a container and hook for a developer’s CSS. Many argue that more semantic options, i.e. <strong> or <em> should be used instead. This is a good argument, but never say never. Think about [...]

How good is IE7? I was wondering about that today as I reloaded it to do another batch of bug fixing. The proof may be in your CSS pudding. We are using conditional comments to import either ie6.css or ie7.css to control our hacks. So far, the ie6 style sheet is 342 lines long, including [...]

The YUI Container libraries work with visibility:hidden to hide your targeted div. I’ve spent too many hours trying to figure out why something wasn’t working only to realize I had display:none in the CSS. So, when you use these libraries remember visibility, not display. It’s a mantra that could keep you from pounding your forehead [...]

Yahoo began releasing it’s design and javascript libraries a few months ago. These are truly a great resource; you can benefit from some of the greatest minds at Yahoo! These scripts have been extensively tested for memory leaks, cross-browser support, and accessibility. The latest release includes the module/container library. This group makes it super easy [...]