vsbabu.org : css http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/categories/css/ Gluing passing thoughts to foregone conclusions en-us vsbabu@gmail.com Copyright 2009 2002-09-28T08:35:50+05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Taming lists http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/09/28/taming_lists.html Pretty cool CSS tricks to make LI element do wonders. 542@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Mark Newhouse writes in A List Apart; using lists in HTML using CSS. Very nicely written article.

I particularly liked Mark's idea about bread-crumbs. Symantically, bread-crumbs and the top and bottom navigation in this site should be list elements. Since I wanted this to look usable in Lynx as well, I didn't even consider using lists for this. Perhaps I should've.

]]> css 2002-09-28T08:35:50+05:00 CSS IEeeeeee http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/09/03/css_ieeeeeee.html Can't Microsoft make this standard compliant? 467@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ I had added in a printer friendly CSS a week ago. Since I don't use IE generally, I was under the impression that everything works, since it tested fine under Mozilla and Opera. Today, I viewed my site using IE at work and blast, the side bar is all gone.

]]> css 2002-09-03T15:55:44+05:00 CSS Techniques http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/08/03/css_techniques.html Realworldstyle.com has handy techniques to get rid of tables in your design 424@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Realworld Style: Excellent CSS techniques, including:
- NN4, 3column, header and footer liquid layout
- Floating thumbnails
- Unix fonts
- 7-10 split

Enjoy this site and get rid of your tables!

]]> css 2002-08-03T08:43:01+05:00 Proper use of CSS in layout http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/03/18/proper_use_of_css_in_layout.html A good article at evolt.org about how WYSIWYG editors can create terrible CSS code. There was another article that talked... 195@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ A good article at evolt.org about how WYSIWYG editors can create terrible CSS code. There was another article that talked about getting rid of bad editors too.

]]> css 2002-03-18T06:45:48+05:00 Style switcher http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/03/13/style_switcher.html Added in a javascript style switcher that can switch between the stylesheets. Now all I need to do is to... 187@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Added in a javascript style switcher that can switch between the stylesheets. Now all I need to do is to actually create some CSS files!

I got the idea and the script from Mark Pilgrim's site. Similar in concept to my PHP script, implemented in Javascript.

]]> css 2002-03-13T19:54:03+05:00 IE5.5 and CSS dotted border http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/03/04/ie55_and_css_dotted_border.html Changed the stylesheet around a bit. "1px dotted border" in IE looks horrible. I had to change it to solid,... 156@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Changed the stylesheet around a bit. "1px dotted border" in IE looks horrible. I had to change it to solid, though dotted looked really nice in all other standard compliant browsers.

]]> css 2002-03-04T22:18:47+05:00 Layout using CSS http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/03/01/layout_using_css.html Good article on the subject. Certainly worth a read and bookmarking. Another article that might help in choosing between tables... 147@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Good article on the subject. Certainly worth a read and bookmarking.

Another article that might help in choosing between tables and CSS.

]]> css 2002-03-01T20:37:54+05:00 Apple: Introduction to CSS http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/02/20/apple_introduction_to_css.html Good un-biased tutorial on starting with CSS from Apple. They have other CSS resources too.... 97@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Good un-biased tutorial on starting with CSS from Apple. They have other CSS resources too.

]]> css 2002-02-20T06:33:28+05:00 CSS design links http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/02/17/css_design_links.html These are the sites I need to look into to learn a bit more CSS to make the next design... 81@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ These are the sites I need to look into to learn a bit more CSS to make the next design for this site.

- Zeldman's exits: has lots of links
- Glish.com : Great design.
- Owen Brigg's box lesson
- Blue Robot's layout reservoir
- Eric Meyer's CSS site

]]> css 2002-02-17T09:43:00+05:00 Why CSS and not tables? http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/02/15/why_css_and_not_tables.html diveintomark.org presents several reasons on why you should use CSS based design instead of tables. 73@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Dave Winer has been fuming about why people have difficulty to switching to CSS and Mark presents some compelling thoughts and arguments on favoring CSS.

Mark is also the author of Dive into Python, a great online book for programmers who want to learn or polish their python skills.

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