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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
TweetWhen positioning elements with CSS it is useful to understand that nested elements have relationships with each other. The terms used to describe the various nesting relationships are borrowed from family descriptions. Thus, there are parents, children, siblings, grandparents and grandchildren. These are not words that you need to use in the CSS itself, but [...]
Tags: asterisk, comma separated list, css elements, css properties, div, element, family descriptions, family relationships, grandparents and grandchildren, internet explorer 7, p paragraph, parents, scratch, sibling elements, siblings, span, ul, wildcard character
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
TweetIn the previous lesson we learned how to link a CSS file to an HTML document and how to use the Star Selector or Wildcard to put a border around every element on the page. You should have a file named stlye.css saved in the same folder as index.html. If you do not, please consult [...]
Tags: attributes, cascading style sheets, css file, css syntax, curly braces, declarations, div, element, elements, grammar, headings, html document, paragraphs, semantics, semi colon, value pairs, wildcard
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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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