I recently ran into a bug in Firefox and Opera when I tried to set the line height of text inside a button (which affects input “submit” buttons as well as the HTML button tag). The bug? The line height can’t be changed! […]
I’ve never liked that my CSS Newbie demo pages have no visual consistency. So, I took some time and added a new wrapper. It makes them more consistent and more useful at the same time. […]
Almost every example of good dropdown navigation on the web today relies on a single, simple HTML structure: the nested unordered list. Of course, that means that knowing how to build a good nested unordered list is critical to this entire process. […]
I have trouble with JavaScript array and array-manipulation. JavaScript lacks a specific foreach contstruct, which trips me up. Here’s how to fake it. […]
Larger clickable areas make for greater usability and a higher click-through rate. Here’s how to expand a clickable area to an entire list item using jQuery. […]
Happy 2010, readers of CSS Newbie! This year, more than a quarter million people stopped by, visiting more than half a million pages. Here are the Top 10 CSS Newbie Articles of 2009. […]
WordPress widgets have been around for quite some time, but the way they were developed changed with WordPress 2.8. This tutorial walks you through building one from scratch. […]
A friend challenged me to develop a simple horizontal navigation bar that could be span the width of the screen but center the navigation area over his content. This is the result of that challenge. […]
While they say a picture is worth a thousand words, not every image is self-explanatory. Sometimes a few words of description or context can make the difference between a confusing image and a clarifying one. That’s why image captions are often a good idea. […]
I’m getting married today, so I’m going to celebrate by holding a CSS Newbie contest. Up for grabs is a 12-month subscription to CushyCMS Pro! […]
