Archive for the 'CSS' Category

Be careful when using comma-separated CSS selectors: IE will ignore the whole rule if it doesn’t understand one of the selectors

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Today I was wracking my brain, trying to figure out why Internet Explorer wasn’t respecting some of the rules in my CSS file. It finally occurred to me that perhaps it was getting tripped up by the attribute selectors I had grouped into the same rule. IE, of course, doesn’t understand attribute selectors. […]

Kitties writing CSS!

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

How cute! I wonder if the book is done in pictures, or if I need to teach Yo-Yo and Chloe to read first…

Are you a Java web developer?

Monday, October 17th, 2005

And are you in Boston? Because I’ve had at least three or four people asking me if I could come work for them, or if I knew any other Java developers who do UI work. They still haven’t found a replacement for me at my last job, and that’s after more than a […]

Suckerfish Dropdowns on DigitalAdvisor

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

I implemented Suckerfish dropdowns on DigitalAdvisor last week! I think they make a great addition to the site.

Apparently, they’re not displaying quite right on Safari or Mac IE, though. Not sure why, and it’s hard to test because I don’t have a Mac. Anyone else see strange behavior?

IE ignores margin on table captions

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Here’s another one for you: IE totally ignores any margin on table captions. And if you put a margin on your table, IE applies it to the table and the caption as a group, instead of only to the table. I can see how this might be an understandable way to think about […]

Margins getting applied to floats

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

Try this page in Firefox. You’ll see the red box is nicely snug against the blue box. Now try it in IE or Opera. What’s all that extra space? Apparently, the margin from the yellow box is getting applied to the bottom of the float! What’s weirder is that if […]