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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
TweetIt is useful not to need to position each element separately when the intended effect is to place elements side by side. This is especially true when creating a horizontal list, for example for navigation links. Perhaps the final number of links is unknown, as more pages may be added later. You can achieve this [...]
Tags: block level elements, div class, document flow, element, line elements, scratch, sibling elements, span
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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
TweetThe important thing to be aware of is that all of the elements on your page are boxes. When we used the star selector, we put a red border around all of the elements. You can use the same CSS to put a border around any element on your page. Practice putting a border around [...]
Tags: additional properties, blank area, box model, boxes, element, elements, ems, font properties, measurement, measurements, percentages, printers, px, scratch, shorthand, text sizes
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
TweetHexadecimal is a special language which uses base 16. Usually we count in base 10. Remember that four bits give 16 values: this is one character in hexadecimal. Four bits are known as one nibble, whereas eight are known as one byte. In hexadecimal we count like this: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 [...]
Tags: 0000ff, 8 bits, assumption, colour code, hash sign, intensities, intensity, monitors, nibble, red light, scratch, shorthand, variations
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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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