Some people like to style buttons to their own design, ensuring they look the same cross browser or enhance the site theme. Others are perfectly fine with a <button /> being rendered differently depending on browser and operating system combination. I understand both sides. Sometimes a styled button...
The CSS2 Opacity property doesn't work in the current versions of Internet Explorer - through IE8. However, it has provided a way to achieve similar results with a different method, using IE's filter property. Javascript frameworks usually work this in for you when you try to set an elements opacity in a cross-browser fashion.
It should come as no surprise that there are bugs that arise from this filter property. One is that the filter doesn't cascade to children that have their position as anything besides static.
Recently, I've been more in favor of using the browsers rendering instead of background images to achieve looks, since that reduces bandwidth and loading times , and also increases maintainability . I used to slice images that would give something a shadow or button type of a look, but have moved more towards just making the browser do it. I wanted to share some examples of effects and how easy it is to do so.
There are loads of CSS frameworks out there, and plenty more of articles telling you that they are the devil and don't use them . I agree with these articles as a whole. So what am I trying to say? Frameworks can be good? It depends.
Recently, HTMLRemix and Drew Diller has released 2 scripts that have really helped fix some of IE6's crappy support: CSS Rounded Corners and Alpha Transparency PNGs.
One problem that shows it self a lot, is when you have floated items inside a container, and that container has a background. You will find that the container does a poor job of containing the floated items.
Having been around the CSS playground for a while now, I’ve seen the different techniques of image replacement, and I’d like to share my methods of doing so, and why I do so.
Heading Replacement
Sometimes, we really love a font or layer style so much, we decide we just have to make our heading...
