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We've addressed unordered lists but haven't really done much with the ordered ones. What's the difference? Well, unordered lists use bullets and ordered list use numbers. They both use the <li> tag but start differently with the unordered being <ul> while...
There was a time that trying to figure out CSS positioning was as confusing as reading the health care bill in congress. Once I got the jist of the basics of positioning then it became much clearer in how to use them together. The beginning 'key' was to realize what...
Updated! New style added. Blockquotes are rather boring unless you jazz them up a bit with some quotes and styling. Otherwise, why have them? Right? Normally what you want is just a way to have quotes to start the block and quotes to end it. Here's some code that will...
Ever wonder how to keep the footer fixed to the bottom of the page? This is a handy little trick if you have some ads you want to continually display or just want to have the footer visible at all times. If done with a little flair the footer can really jazz up your...
One of the cool things you can do with CSS is create a rollover or hover effect using a single image, in CSS it's known as a 'sprite'. A sprite is basically a single image with different colors on it that would represent your desired hover or rollover colors. Using a...
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.
Anyone who operates an online store always faces a common dilema. How do we provide the best view of our products? Traditionally shopping carts allow you to upload a thumbnail and larger view image. Some allow for multiple detail images and perhaps even a slideshow....
If you are a freelance web designer or developer like myself your time, creativity and knowledge are your products for sale. Providing a professional presentation to your prospective clients is paramount in this competitive world of website creation. I have used...
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’.
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