Display: inline-block is the bee’s knees. CSS 2.1

I was looking at the CSS 2.1 Candidate Recommendation today and notices that there’s a New ‘display’ value- ‘inline-block’. That caught my eye as I’m long actually familiar with the inline-block display value. I’ve used it a couple of times for IE-specific browser hacks and I’ve always thought it would be cool if it were […]

CSS Attribute Selectors. I’d like to be able to use them.

I’m looking something like two or three years into the future to a point where I can implement a small, almost negligible upgrade to the way I serve back, next and home buttons for my galleries. Add one part coding neuroses, one part browser incompatibility and one part CSS and this article will be a […]

Cross Browser Opacity using CSS and Internet Explorer filters

I’ve used this technique several times and I’m actually using it prominently in a UI component that I’m working on right now. I’ll have a lot more on that at a later date (plenty to write about with that piece:)) and I’ll actually have more on the potential pitfalls of this technique as well. This […]

Answering Google- Passing a Random Number to a Div id in Javascript

Occasionally I see specific searches that bring people to my site and I wonder if people actually found the answers they were looking for in my code articles. Sometimes I think they probably did, but sometimes I’m not so sure. So… I figured why not answer some of the more interesting pleas directly? Lord knows […]