CSS IE Printing A Lot of Blank Pages
Problem One of the smaller pages on a wordpress site I was working on printed about 75 pages in Interent Explorer (73 of which were blank). Both Firefox and Chrome printed the normal 1-2 pages. Only...
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Apparently IE 8 cannot change the display of a element to inline-block unless it natively is inline. The fix is to trigger hasLayout on the element before trying to change it. Below is a code snippet...
View ArticleCSS Height 100%
Problem I have a fixed footer and some content with a background. The designer wants the content background to expand all the way to the bottom whether there’s a lot of content or no content at all....
View ArticleFirebug in Safari
Since Safari 3.x, you can now have a firebug-like tool in Safari. Either open terminal and copy-paste the line below or edit the plist file here ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safai.plist. defaults...
View ArticleGray / Grey Scale images
It is now easier than ever to make an image greyscale in CSS. <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <filter id="grayscale"> <feColorMatrix type="matrix"...
View ArticleOnline Tools
All tools listed here are free and ready to use. CSS Gradient Generator Great for creating gradients, even in IE: http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ Image Editor Great for an alternative to...
View ArticleText with Inner Shadow
The guys on stackoverflow are just geniuses. This is one way to make beautiful text inner shadows: .depth { display: block; padding: 50px; color: black; font: bold 7em Arial, sans-serif; position:...
View ArticleSpace Under Image Link
Problem I had the following code like so: <div class=”someborder”><a href=”#”><img src=”someimage.png”></a></div><div>some text</div> The class “someborder”...
View ArticleIE Doesn’t see padding on hover
Problem Internet Explorer 8 (I no longer even look at IE 7) seems to not be able to see the padding on an anchor tag within a ul > li > a structure. Using jQuery I have a hover event on the li,...
View ArticleWhat is box-sizing and border-box?
Problem In the latest WordPress theme, twentythirteen, I noticed styles that had padding didn’t affect the width of my box. Whenever I add padding, the inside just got smaller and the outside stayed...
View ArticleCareful with supporting all versions of IE 8
Problem Internet Explorer 8 is still mildly popular and so probably needs to be accommodated for on websites. However, like different versions of Chrome and Firefox, IE8 also has different versions....
View ArticleVertically Center Anything With Dimensions
One way to easily vertically center a div is to set it to be absolute, set the width, height and then the top, bottom, left and right all equal to 0. Something like this: From:...
View ArticlePseudo Selector First Child of Class
Problem How do you apply a style to only the first element with a certain class? :first-child does not do this, that just selects the very first child no matter what the class is. :first-of-type...
View ArticleCSS iOS div lines disappear on zoom in
Problem In iOS devices sometimes safari can display an annoying line above and below div elements. Like so: Solution The solution is quite hacky and hopefully this is a bug in Safari and it gets...
View Article2 color horizontally expanding background
All done in css, no images. Float the background past the normal page width based on percentage. one on the left, one on the right....
View ArticleLine in Firefox background
Problem When scaling the FireFox and having a background image size set to 100%, the bottom of the image sometimes shows a line on the bottom showing the background behind it. Solution Firefox seems to...
View ArticleLeft Sidebar Under Content
Problem Having a left sidebar move under the content in a responsive design needs a bit more thinking. You can’t just do float left width 100% or display block and let the sidebar fall to the next...
View ArticleRelative positioning of table rows and row groups is now supported. This site...
Firefox displayed this warning in the Firebug console. This warning indicates an absolutely positioned does not consider a table element relatively positioned so it may not appear as expected. A...
View ArticleCareful with supporting all versions of IE 8
Problem Internet Explorer 8 is still mildly popular and so probably needs to be accommodated for on websites. However, like different versions of Chrome and Firefox, IE8 also has different versions....
View ArticleVertically Center Anything With Dimensions
One way to easily vertically center a div is to set it to be absolute, set the width, height and then the top, bottom, left and right all equal to 0. Something like this: From:...
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