Tagged with html
Use negative margins and light weight semantic markup to display a form with the labels on one side and form elements on the other. No tables or divs needed at all. Works in all browsers. Noone who wasn't a web developer would believe what a pain it is finding a good solution to this little problem.
Published in CSS on Sunday, July 27th, 2008
On the ever interesting topic of curiosity over good sense, I had an interesting discussion about how far you can nest HTML tables in different browsers. The person I was talking to had noticed that at a certain point the tables just stopped displaying when they tried to take their web rendering to an extreme [...]
Published in Web development on Saturday, August 4th, 2007
I’m doing a lot of work with javascript that modifies the DOM so I really like tools like the Firefox rendered source chart plugin so I can see what’s actually going on in my page. Rendered source chart in particular is a very slick plugin. It not only takes everything in the DOM and shows [...]
Published in Tools, Web development on Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
I can never remember these things. This is a list so I (or you) can just cut and paste into pages. HTML 4 transitional: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> HTML 4 strict: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> XHTML transitional: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> XHTML strict: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD [...]
Published in Web development on Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
