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 […]
Category Archives: CSS2
Progressive enhancement of links using the CSS attribute selector
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 it’s fairly […]
Internet Explorer is officially released
Back in the dark days, programmers battled with a forgotten browser. It was good for its time, like a 4-cyl Fiero. But time marched on and this browser stagnated, forcing those working in the internet world to jump through programming hoops to make their pages work. There were a few heroes that made this work […]
The big list of fixed stuff in IE7
The IE7 blog has a new post of items that have been fixed in the upcoming release of IE7. While not on the list, the problem I found with alpha transparent png sprites has been fixed for the final release. Take a look at the list and think of it as new tools to use. […]
Forcing the footer to always be at the bottom of a page
Cameron Adams (The Man in Blue) has created a method to force a footer to stick to the bottom of a page, regardless of how much content it contains. His approach is based on the work by Craig Erskine (solarDreamStudios). The Setup You have a page that terminates in a sturdy footer, such as this […]