Tag Archive for 'css'

» Internet Explorer Doesn’t Evaluate Any More Than 31 Style Elements

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engfer
October 30, 2008 in CSS. 12 Comments

Any version of Microsoft Internet Explorer will not evaluate any more than 31 CSS style elements. I’m not sure if many of you readers have come across this ridiculous bug, but we thought best if you were at least forewarned.

» Google Chrome CSS Selector Speeds Compared

Published by
engfer
September 15, 2008 in CSS and Javascript. 14 Comments

Google somewhat surprised us all and released it’s web browser on Sept. 2, 2008; most users of the shiny new browser have been extremely impressed with the initial speed and features. I have to say that even I am impressed by this new browser (as long as I’m not behind a corporate firewall).  Since the CNET article came out about the extreme speed of Google Chrome, I immediately wondered how it would perform against other browsers in the mootools.net tool Slickspeed CSS selectors test, so I decided to do some benchmarking of my own.

» The Proper Way to Align Images and Icons with Anchor Tags

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engfer
August 28, 2008 in CSS. 6 Comments

How many times have some of you tried to add an icon image to an anchor tag (link: <a>) or make some other random image part of that link and have had one-heck-of-a-time trying to align the text of the link and the image (<img>) tag?

I know that I have (especially when each browser treats the vertical aligning differently)…

Well here is the better way of aligning them that will make your life at least 10 times easier using 0 img tags and 1 anchor tag with CSS styling…

» IE6/IE7 Anchor Y-Axis Border And Padding Fix

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engfer
August 5, 2008 in CSS. 5 Comments

Problem:

Internet Explorer truncates and does not display any vertical padding nor top and bottom borders on an inline element, such as an anchor, inside of a table cell.  Firefox and Safari display correctly without any problems.

Here is an example situation where we want to style an anchor tag with some padding inside of a table cell…

Well, we expect to see some border on all sides of the anchor tag with some gray background; however, as we open it in IE, we see… WHAT?!?!… the top and bottoms are gone?!?! See below…

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