Introduction to CSS Positioning Properties Part 1Web designers gained a great deal from the CSS2 specification, especially when it comes to increased flexibility to position HTML elements exactly where they want them within Web pages. Keep reading to learn more.Today, many websites are progressively relying more and more on CSS to define the appearance of each Web document. This noticeable step forward takes advantage of the powerful capabilites that style sheets have to offer to Web designers.The implementation of the ...

Taming the SelectSo, having a good time with SELECT? Probably not. That's why today, Chris Heilmann will be teaching you the ups and downs of making things look the way your client wants things to look. After all, you do want to get paid, don't you?Support File Available HereOf all the form elements in HTML, SELECT is the enfant terrible. It behaves nicely when kept as is, but as soon as we try to teach it some style manners, it'll ...

The Power of CSSCSS or cascading style sheets are used to create a set of styles that can be applied to your fonts, tables and most other attributes of your web page. These styles allow you to create a much cleaner, faster web page that search engines love and also makes life much easier on the designer when global changes to these styles need to be applied. It is also always critical to always keep in mind your target audience ...

What is CSS?Style sheets are a very powerful tool for the Web site developer. They give you the chance to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your pages, while giving you much more control over the layout and design than straight HTML ever did.Style sheets are a very powerful tool for the Web site developer. They give you the chance to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your pages, while giving you much more ...

Tabbed Browsing with CSS2So you've created one sweet web application, and you're very proud of the functionality, but the User Interface is somewhat lacking. Hey, don't worry, it happens to all of us. We are programmers after all, not UI designers! But don't despair; this tutorial will show you how to separate the pages of your application into ergonomically distinct chunks, by the use of CSS tabs. That's right, CSS, no tables involved!It has become a very established fact that ...

Designing Web Pages without TablesMany "tricks" were developed before the days of CSS in order to display neat-looking web pages. The main trick is to use tables (with the property border = 0) in order to put menus and other similar content on the page. This article will teach one how to stop using those messy tables and enter the world of design with CSS.IntroductionWay back in the old days of the web, there were no standards and web browsers ...

Introduction to CSS Positioning Properties Part 2In this second part of a two-part article, we examine more positioning properties available in the CSS2 specifications, and use what we've learned to build a simple drop-down menu without employing any JavaScript.Welcome back! Here we are again, in order to closely look at more CSS Positioning properties. In part 1 of this article, we've explained some basic definitions and explored different commonly used properties. Now, it's time to move forward and find out ...

Customizing Styles: User-Controlled Style Sheets, part 1Giving your visitors more control over how they see your website makes for a very user-friendly experience. If you get a lot of visually impaired Web surfers, you might want to set up a "switcher" to allow them to switch between the default version and a high-contrast version of your website. In this first of a three-part article series, Alejandro Gervasio explains a couple of simple ways to set this up.IntroductionAs websites progressively evolved ...

Customizing styles: User-Controlled Style Sheets - Part IIIn this second article of a three-part series, you will learn how to allow visitors to your website to view an entirely different, more visually accessible style sheet from the "default" one. Normally, providing more than one style sheet causes browser conflict issues -- but with a little bit of JavaScript, we will solve this problem.IntroductionWelcome to Part II of the series "Customizing Styles: User-Controlled Style Sheets." If you read the first article, ...

Customizing styles: User-Controlled Style Sheets – Part IIIIn this third part and final part of our article series about user-controlled style sheets, we will learn how to make switching between style sheets both reversible and persistent across all pages of your website for your visitors.IntroductionWelcome to Part III of the series "Customizing Styles: User-controlled Style Sheets." It’s our last article in this series, aimed specifically at swapping entire style sheets in Web documents, making the style change reversible and even ...