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floated element. So you simply go from something like this:

#content {

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width: 500px;

padding: 10px 15px;

margin-left: 20px; }

To something like this:

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CSS Positioning

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gives you a deep understanding of the possibilities you have in positioning.

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relative or absolute positioning can be extremely frustrating to people just getting started with CSS. The

answer to this question will add a bit of clarity to this confusion.

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position: relative;

bottom: 40px;

right: 40px;

}

To get this:

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CSS Float Concept

width: 157px;

height: 93px;

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#container:after

{

content: ".";

display: block;

height: 0;

clear: both;visibility: hidden;

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#container

{display: inline-block;}

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* html #container

{height: 1%;}

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Easier Rounded Corner Solutions

15- Mike asks the CSS Guy for recommendations on rounded corners - Simplest way is

to use a giant gif, then Ill markup my box

beautifully-encapsulated paragraph

And give it the background

.roundBox {

background:transparent url(roundBox.gif) no-repeat top left;

width:340px;

padding:20px;

}

.roundBox .boxBottom {

background:white url(roundBox.gif) no-repeat bottom left;

font-size:1px;

line-height:1px;

height:14px;

margin:0 -20px -20px -20px;

}

AlsoAskthecssguyexplains the technique used in Google Analytics, which works by leaving a 1px notch in

every corner to get the rounded corner effect which is a new way of creating rounded corners without using

static images. You can see an example here.

16- 3 Simple Steps in Coding a Rounded Corners Layout - Alen Grakalics approach to

coding a fixed width, rounded corners layout in 3 simple steps. He also created a demo here.
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CSS Form Issues

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17- Tips For Creating Great Web Forms - Cris Coyer shares with us some tips for floating labels,

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posted about here.

label {float: left;

text-align: right;

margin-right: 15px;

width: 100px;

}

18- Clean and pure CSS FORM design - For CSS lovers, this tutorial illustrates a proposal about

how to design a pure CSS form without using html tables. You can grab the code here.

19-Autopopulating text input fields with JavaScript - Sometimes we need to explain to users

what they are supposed to enter into text input fields. One common workaround when no label can be

displayed is to put some placeholder text in the text field and let that act as the label. This tutorial

introduces a nice solution, with JavaScript enabled, the label element is hidden and the value of the input

elements title attribute is copied to the value attribute. If JavaScript is disabled, the label is displayed above

the text input, which is left empty. A simple demo, where you can see this in action is here.

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Billco says:

Excellent article, but some of the links are incorrect, and the first example does not show the

fix. Nevertheless, this will make a great cheat-sheet for my CSS- challenged coworkers

June 15, 2008 at 8:25 pm

Ahsan Altaf says:

Well yes the first example which i think is the most important one here dosnt show the fix.

Any how good finds there.

June 15, 2008 at 8:32 pm

Welcome to Paradise says:I was familiar with the above examples except Easier Rounded Corner Solutions, Worth

checking CSS Tricks, and CSS positioning also took quite a lot of time. This article did

help to sort out quite a lot of things and will help me to work efficiently.

Thanks mate.

June 15, 2008 at 9:23 pm

Rakesh Gupta says:

Fix for the first example:

#content {

float: left;

width: 500px;

padding: 10px 15px;

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display: inline; }

jbj says:

Very good article, thanks for sharing!

June 15, 2008 at 11:21 pm

David says:

hacks!

June 15, 2008 at 11:26 pm

Noupe says:

Oops, i totally forgot to add the display:inline; in the first example. Thanks for pointing this

out, i am sure it was due to lack of coffee

June 16, 2008 at 12:02 am

Rajnish Singh says:

Hi

I have a cross browser problem. thing is I have created a login page with using css style sheet

which is created as seperate css style doc. and linked with the main login page. there are

tables created in login page using table tag. And now the problem is that the login page

displays in IE in centre of page but in fire fox it dispays left of the page I dont know why.

could you please guide me on this.

thanks

June 16, 2008 at 12:15 am

Darren Yin says:

in the first tip, isnt the before code the same as the after code?

June 16, 2008 at 12:35 am

Noupe says:

@Rajnish Singh, Please provide a link to the login page so we could have a look at the code.

@Darren Yin, in the after code of the first example, we added the display:inline rule to

make it work in IE

June 16, 2008 at 12:42 am

web design company says:

Some quick tips for common CSS issues and how to avoid easy pitfalls during your CSS

coding process.

June 16, 2008 at 1:34 am

blancus says:

Really good list. Thanks for sharing!

June 16, 2008 at 2:57 am

Rajaie AlKorani says:

Definitely worth a bookmark! Thanks!

June 16, 2008 at 5:09 am

Xarc says:

Really good list!!!

Thanks.

June 16, 2008 at 5:40 am

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MyRule says:

Very nice article, some of the examples really helped me! Thanks for sharing

June 16, 2008 at 7:10 am

jacksonville face says:

Thanks for the list. The tip # 3 (IE height) saved my day.

June 16, 2008 at 8:09 am

Moni says:

Noura, wicked post as always girlie

Sure some of them have been discussed before, on u75 and even

http://www.shoutingzone.com but this is a better more comprehensive list of fixes/hacks.

The rounded css corner was a nice read too!

*hugs*

June 16, 2008 at 8:54 am

Erik says:

Why use a comment hack on #3 when only IE recognizes * html?

June 16, 2008 at 11:27 am

sakib says:

IE6 is nightmare for all new web designers but after sometime they learn how to deal with it.

one from me :D

IE6 assign 12px height to all div tags by default. It cannot be fixed by adding height:5px; etc. to fix it, add

font-size:1px;

OR

Overflow:hidden;

OR

line-height:1px;

- Another tip

display:table-cell; has ever been very helpful to me. I will allow you to make divs behave like tables, that

will help you fix many problems. Make sure to add width attribute also cause you div will not use block

width 100%

June 16, 2008 at 11:43 am

Patrick Sweeney says:

Excellent article! I have sent this link to quite a few people because these are things people

always ask me.

June 16, 2008 at 11:56 am

Jake Rutter says:

Great List, ever use spiffy corners? Those are pretty nice!

June 16, 2008 at 12:13 pm

Jon Aizlewood says:

Great list once again. I was hoping to find an easy/easier hack to make dotted borders in IE6

like those in Firefox? Im sure I speak for everyone who has wished IE6 simply rendered

dots instead of dashes.

June 16, 2008 at 12:22 pm

Bankai says:

Good articles, but the horizontal rule one makes no sense wrapping an hr element into a div

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then styled it with css. Whats the point? Might as well put just a div there with a class and

forget the hr element and styled it.

Crankyman says:

Laying things out was a lot easier with tables and spacer gifs. But try saying that to an

HTML developer today and youll be burned at the stake for heresy. Laying things out with

DIVs is a fad.

June 16, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Figaro says:

yes, i agree with you, css based web design provide less afford for coders.

June 16, 2008 at 1:17 pm

Limied Edition iPhone says:

Nice Tips! I used the first one!

June 16, 2008 at 1:23 pm

Nox says:

@ Crankyman

DIVs is not a fad, layouts with DIVs is easier for search engines to read. Your site will beindex faster and cleaner than a table layout.

Tables layouts might be easier, but if you are using table layouts why even bother with CSS ? You are

writing dinosaur code anyways.

June 16, 2008 at 1:26 pm

steve says:

How come theres no FIX for website background image flickering in IE6 and IE7?

http://www.ahzhou.com/net

June 16, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Mondo Libero says:

Thanks a lot for this wonderful list of tips, they are more useful.

June 16, 2008 at 2:46 pm

Noupe says:

Hey everyone,

Thank you for the comments! Id like to address some of them:

@sakib, Thanks for pointing this out. The CSS display:table-cell is to mimic the display properties of a

table cell, but without actually having the table semantics at the markup level.

For better understanding of the display rule, please check this post.

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html

@Bankai , the HR tip was to use an image as an HR while preserving the web page backward

compatibility and better phone browsing. I think it is a smart tip, as you might use them as a separators.

@Jon Aizlewood, dotted borders in IE6 is one of the many issues we have to deal with. Personally i

create a nice dotted borders for Internet Explorer using a repeating background graphic. A good example

can be found here: http://kalsey.com/2003/07/css_dotted_borders_in_ie/

If anyone has a better solution, let me know about it.

Thank you all for your participation!

June 16, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Steven Snell says:

Excellent bookmarkable list. Thanks.

June 16, 2008 at 3:21 pm

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CSS Style Sheets ROCK. Frames are a thing of the way past!

JT

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dale tan says:

heres a tip for IE6 and doing css rollovers:

aside from assigning the anchors containing element withe the same background image,

apply overflow: hidden style to prevent text wrapping. by doing so, this avoids the shadow

effect of seeing the rollover state.

June 16, 2008 at 5:10 pm

Brandon says:

Nice list! I learned some great stuff from your post. Cant wait to try out the 1 px notch for

rounded edges!

June 16, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Amy says:

is there any mention of conditional comments? Its much better to place hacks in browser-

specific style sheets targeted by conditional comments.. that way, good browsers dont have

to read hacky css.

June 16, 2008 at 7:08 pm

Thierry Schellenbach says:

Point 14 about clearing floats can be done quite easily with the following code

Prefer this:

.clearer {

clear:both;

height:1px;

overflow:hidden;

margin-top:-1px;

}

June 17, 2008 at 12:09 am

Rajnish Singh says:

how i can link the file?

please guide

June 17, 2008 at 1:29 am

tib says:

this is complicate

The easyest way is to go on rentacoder.com, make a project where you fill all your css

problems, put a maximum price of 5$ and then wayt. You will see at less 10 indians who will

offer to do your job for free!!!

In the mean while, you drink a beer.

June 17, 2008 at 5:29 am

W3prodigy says:

I disagree with #8, using those methods is hacky and unnecessary. If you simply create a

container div around the elements above the footer, then by setting an overflow:hidden to the

container you can achieve a flowing design that matches with the floating content.

Something like this (obviously in an external stylesheet):

Left

Right

Footer

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Web Design Forum says:

There are some very good techniques listed on this website. Ive used many of these myself

and they work well.

This is an invaluable source of information for anyone who is learning CSS and gets

frustrated at certain browsers not behaving like others do.

July 4, 2008 at 3:51 pm

jd says:

Thanks for the tips. Ill be sure to digg it!

July 10, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Jon S says:

Thanks! CSS can be a cruel mistress, always good to have a list of fixes to refer to.

July 11, 2008 at 8:57 am

Altamira says:

Excellent article! I have sent this link to quite a few people because these are things people

always ask me.

July 17, 2008 at 8:02 am

jdzzle says:

#1 is retarded why should i make a block element inline just to make IE happy, seriously M$

got this one wrong, wtf

July 27, 2008 at 11:55 pm

perdeci says:

nice tutorial thanks

August 9, 2008 at 11:52 pm

Dwayne Charrington says:

Fantastic list. Thanks for the great, useful resource. I regularly peruse this web-site on a

daily basis, lots of handy resources.

September 9, 2008 at 9:17 pm

Rudy Herman Sinen says:

This is a life saver. Thanks for posting this.

September 20, 2008 at 7:52 pm

Daniel says:

Wow I have saved this url for further projects.

Thanks

September 28, 2008 at 4:44 am

boris says:

hey! can you suggest how i can repare font style for firefox http://www.aproduction.com.ua

(in safari everything works great).

font.subname 30px should work just for left column, but now it destroy my main block

best,

b.

November 16, 2008 at 1:40 am

Nick says:

Centering a Block Element

Hi, im from brazil and i dont speak (write) english very well (sorry). But to align the div

#content this way is better:

#content {

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/*the values is a example you can change it!*/

width: 900px;

position: absolute;

left: 50%;

margin-left: - 450px; /*half of the width*/

}

to center the content in extreme middle of page use:

#content {

/*the values is a example you can change it!*/

width: 900px;

height: 600px;

position: absolute;

left: 50%;

top:50%;

margin-left: - 450px; /*half of the width*/

margin-top: - 300px; /*half of the height*/

}

Sorry for the poor english

Thanks!

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