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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
TweetBefore CSS, HTML tables were often used for layout and positioning. This is still a common practice, although frowned upon as the code can be hard to alter later. Using HTML tables for layout is also not semantic code, and therefore does not represent best practice. The semantic use of an HTML table is for [...]
Tags: boxes, caption, clarity, collapse html, colours, css property, double borders, headings, html table, html tables, labels, patience, table data cells, td
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
TweetThe asterisk is known as the star selector, or wildcard. It just means “everything” and can be very useful in CSS. * { border: 1px solid red; } This example selected all of the elements in your html document at once, and told the browser to give them all a red border, one pixel wide [...]
Tags: asterisk, background color, background colour, body background, body element, body tag, caption, css properties, curly braces, dashes, dots, element name, html attributes, html body, html document, one good reason, quot, semi colon, text colour, value pair
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
TweetLists are very important in HTML, and are a little more complicated. There are two basic types of lists: Ordered lists have UPPER or lower case letters, numbers or roman numerals. This can be specified using HTML attribute and value pairs, but is best done with CSS. You can also start your list from a [...]
Tags: anchor, attribute, bullet points, caption, case letters, different shapes, html attributes, hypertext reference, lower case, lt, own website, roman numerals, scratch, value pairs
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
TweetThis tutorial is based on an article from css tricks showing how to create triangles with CSS3. mandala The basic principal is that you define a div with width: 0 and height:0, and then define three borders: two transparent borders on either side cut the third border into a sharp point (triangle), the [...]
Tags: angled triangle, angled triangles, black, borders, caption, colour, concepts, css, css tricks, design, div, equal angles, equilateral triangle, hypotenuse, isosceles triangle, mandala, number solutions, pythagorean triangle, pythagorean triple, sharp point, six pointed star, whole number
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