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I got a little tired of my lists just going straight down the page and leaving gaping white spaces to the right. So, I devised a quick way to create multiple columns for lists using some simple CSS tricks. The result was a horizontal display of either ordered or...
Sometimes it’s fun to put some color into what is otherwise a drab element of your web page, the scrollbars! Scrollbars are those ugly grey things that allow your content to be shown in a tightly confined space, or, the ones the browser produce automatically if the page is taller than the browser window. In either case, you can add some color.
While I was snooping around the web the other day looking for some ideas on how to contain a large amount of text into a lightbox effect I decided on using a javascript method of calling the content of a hidden div (display: none). The problem was that the content was opening the lightbox overlay at about 1500 pixels tall which made it very odd to scroll manually and view it. I needed a way to make the contents of the div it was displaying ‘scrollable’.
Here's a couple of ways to create that cool looking extra large first letter of a paragraph using two different methods but both using CSS. You can do these either in line CSS or external CSS as an attached stylesheet. The <span> Method .firstletter {...
Ever wonder how they do all those cool tricks with the hyperlinks embedded into pages? Are you tired of the typical default color scheme and style of your hyperlinks? Here's some ideas and CSS tips to add more impact into your design! First, it's important to know...
This could easily be titled 'How I Was Afraid Of CSS Layouts But Learned To Love Them'. For years, like most designers, I used tables for creating client websites. The reluctance to embrace CSS tableless layouts was based upon the typical time constraints of having to...
Having learned the hard way, IE doesn't like the easy way of doing things. Therefore, here's a quick fix when you want to create a centered design where it will work in both IE and FF as well as other browsers. First, some basic HTML for how your page would be laid...
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