Tag: Cascading Style Sheets

  • HTML5 Resource: HTML5 Doctor

    I used to think HTML5 was just a pipe dream; something that was a nice idea but had no legs. However, the recent advancement of smart phones makes this the perfect approach for building web-based phone apps. Hence, my interest now in joining the HTML5 game. There’s a great resource for those like me starting […]

  • CSS3 Attribute Selector Presentation

    During the fog of a summer cold and pressing deadlines… I gave a presentation today at the Yahoo! Front End Engineering Summit about CSS3 Attribute Selectors. The presentation briefly touched on some of my previous posts on this site as well as a few new concepts and ideas. Here is the full presentation (HTML): CSS3 […]

  • Create a tabbed search form with YUI

    Yahoo! makes it easy to create an accessible, handsome tabbed interface. I used their Tab View library to create the tabbed search form for V3GGIE.com. While Tab View can create the tabbed content dynamically, I’m using it to hide/show hard-coded individual forms. Update: I’ve removed the tabbed interface from V3GGIE.com. This particular use of the […]

  • Adding style to your rel attributes with CSS

    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 […]

  • Conflicting Z-Index in IE6

    Internet Explorer 6 has an issue with positioned elements that use z-index. Here’s the trouble I just had with this: I have a topnav consisting of an unordered list with a dropdown menu on one of the list elements. The dropdown is a nested unordered list with position:absolute and a z-index to sit on top […]