Archive for the 'CSS' Category
About the indirect adjacent combinator (~) in CSS
A relative of the CSS Adjacent Sibling Combinator that I wrote about before, the indirect adjacent combinator is pretty nifty and supported by IE7+, FF2+, Opera 9.5+, Safari 3+, and even Konqueror. It is actually part of the CSS3 spec but it’s surprisingly well supported.
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21 commentsNext major Firefox 3 release will support almost all of CSS3
It looks like David Baron is working hard on new CSS support for Firefox 3. His latest blog post tells us that he has finished up support for a bunch of CSS3 selectors, available now in the Firefox nightly build:
We now support :nth-child(), :nth-last-child(), :nth-of-type(), and :nth-last-of-type() [...] :first-of-type, :last-of-type, and :only-of-type
This will be released with the next major version of ‘fox (probably 3.1). It looks like support forMedia Queries is next. Hurrah! Good work David!
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4 commentsCreate a Color Palette Using CSS and MooTools 1.2
This entry was authored by highly-respected blogger and friend David Walsh. Learn more about David
As you can see from my site’s lack of design (davidwalsh.name), I’m about 90% programmer and 10% designer. As someone that’s not a designer, I’m really grateful for websites like ColourLovers — websites that provide you palettes of colors that look good together. Let’s pretend for a moment that I do have a good design and I want others to know my palette. MooTools 1.2 has made that a reality.
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19 commentsUse the table-layout CSS property to speed up table rendering
A rarely used CSS property that can be very useful given the right circumstances is the table-layout property. It has great rendering speed benefit when used properly. Obviously this will only apply to HTML <table>s, which I know none of you would EVER overuse. Tables are not totally evil, they have their proper implementations and their really, really bad ones. OK, on to the code:
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