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Random CSS tips and tricks

Posted on September 16, 2008 under CSS

I wrote (as in handwritten) this a couple of weeks ago when I was having trouble sleeping, chances are you already know these things but, for the benefit of my rusty memory, I’ll still post it here. Besides, solving these problems took me hours of frustration, so I better chronicle it.

There are times [...]

min-height in IE 6

Posted on August 31, 2008 under CSS

Would you look at this, while everyone has finally decided that they will be dropping support for IE 6, that’s when I decided to create a tutorial for implementing min-height for the browser. Anyway, onto the post.
We all know that the min-height property doesn’t work in IE 6. Instead, the height property acts as both [...]

Lessons learned in dealing with IE 6

Posted on June 17, 2008 under CSS

I’ve been “battling” with IE for more than 3 years now and I just felt that it’s finally time to not only bash the poor beloved browser and instead pay homage to the good things that it was able to instill on me.
There is no such thing as one tweak fix all
If there’s such a [...]

The great IE 6 Hack

Posted on April 22, 2008 under CSS

As a designer, the biggest problems that I have with IE are the PNG transparency problem and the :hover pseudo class is not working unless it’s used in the a element.
Thanks for HTC which is only understood by IE 5.5 and above browsers — I’ve found some handy “hacks” to work around these 2 limitations [...]

Being productive with CSS

Posted on June 11, 2007 under CSS

I don’t know about other people but I, for one, use a lot of classes in every design project. So with every project that I have to code, I have to put all of them again and again and again that there are moments that I was not able to add some of them altogether. [...]