Posts Tagged ‘CSS’

Typography or font-weight,which is the culprit here?

These are 2 screenshots of paragraphs, the first image shows arial with font weight set to normal and about 14px in FF,the second in IE 7.
Just to make certain it wasn’t a flaw in the stylesheet I wrote I checked this issue on many other webpages of very well known CSS experts and noticed the [...]

The wily float. One day I will master you.

Laugh at me if you want but I am not ashamed to say that floating multiple divs inside containing divs (wrappers to you purists) sometimes still throws me.
Here are some of my CSS dos and dont’s standbys:
I really try to avoid using hacks because I keep reading on how they will all be depreciated sooner [...]

Arial,Helvectica,sans-serif ? Oh thanks Microsoft.

I used to include Helvectica in my font string by rote. I never really looked at it in action. I admit I never thought much about it. Until I wanted to use some new fonts and wondered why the next font down in my font string showed. Well, Helvectica is a universal [...]

Tableless css gallery

You can see all the code for it here dnevnikeklektika.com
I was scratching my bean yesterday because I really wanted to jazz up my dad’s site’s catalog pages with some thumbnail pictures but I had put so many dumb divs in those pages already that I was tired of moving everything about when I added something [...]