CSS, short for Cascading Style Sheets, is a language used to control the presentation (including colors, layout, and fonts) of HTML and XHTML documents.
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protecting css selectors on large website
I have content that appears within a corporate website inside an iframe. Several departments contribute their own CSS files to manage the overall UI and design.
My problem is that they may use ...
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Tab navigation and double content
I have a website in which i use tabs to navigate between pages. For example, page a displays A as an active tab and B and C background tabs.
If the visitor gets to the website via page B, i also would ...
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How can I slice parallelogram shapes to HTML/CSS?
I have to slice website design to HTML/CSS. Main navigation menu looks like below:
I am beginner webdeveloper and I don't know how to slice this design into compatible and cross-browser code. How ...
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How bad is it to use display: none in CSS?
I've heard many times that it's bad to use display: none for SEO reasons, as it could be an attempt to push in irrelevant popular keywords. A few questions:
Is that still received wisdom?
Does it ...
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How and where to place - css, html and images in email to make it a HTML email? [closed]
How and where to place - css, html and images in email to make it a HTML email?
I have seen many advertising emails in my inbox and I am curious to know how does the email body display the HTML.
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Should I use HTML5 and/or CSS3 to build my website?
The new HTML5/CSS3 (Web8!) stuff sounds cool! Should I start using it now or stick with css/xhtml wait until more browsers can use it?
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How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work from a specific region)
According to the FAQ's I am not sure if my question is a ok to ask or will be closed or should I post it in the meta or even I would blame some one for downvoting it. However it is one that has been ...
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Ok to use table for calculator? [closed]
I'm a php/mysql guy, and have been trying to brush up on my frontend skills. So this weekend I made a four function calculator in javascript.
But when I started to work on the presentation, I found ...
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Drop down menu for blogger with automatic link update
My mom has a recipe blog in blogger which has many categories "Cakes", "Celebration Day" etc which are filled with numerous recipe posts. Now I want to organize my blog in a better way and make a drop ...
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How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work from a specific region) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work from a specific region)
I have this Web Site. It uses the Google Translate API (Can't post the ...
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Responsive CSS grid having capability to change column order visually
Trying to find a responsive CSS grid with the capability to change column order visually. E.g., I have content before navigation, but visually it should be vise versa: left navigation, right content.
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Separating portion of website to its own server
So my job is to take the homepage (or maybe I should say "homesite" because it encompasses a few interrelated pages) and drag this onto its own Apache server. The problem I'm having right now is being ...
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Is there a tool that converts css to less.css?
I have a pretty big CSS file, that I want to convert to less. When I wrote the CSS I did not know less.css, but now I still want to use my old CSS.
Is there a tool that can help me to convert it ...
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Unknown CSS font-family oddity with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8
I am seeing the following "oddity" with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8:
When declaring font-family: serif; I am seeing an old bitmapped serif font that I can't identify (see screenshot below) instead ...
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Reduce HTTP Requests method for js and css
Is these way can Reduce HTTP Requests?
multiple javascript files with & symbol
<script type="text/javascript"
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Convert Microsoft Word documents (.doc/x) into HTML files
Does anybody knows of a good application to get it done quickly and efficiently ?
I bought Word Cleaner but the results are merely sufficient and I need go over all the generated html files to clean ...
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CSS rounded corners around image [closed]
I have tried several ways to get rounded corners around images without success. The best I got was using the image as background and applying the round corners style to the div as in this picture.
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Do CSS class names have any effect on SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is minifying id and class names a bad SEO practice?
I have seen some of our competitors using keyword rich CSS class names. As an example, if I were in the pet grooming ...
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If I override <STRONG> in CSS, does it retain any style elements?
As per title - If i override the HTML tag <STRONG> in CSS, by specifying a different font weight and size, does it retain any other style settings/properties?
strong {
font-weight:700;
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Does CSS 'em' sizing still matter? [closed]
As I know, em-sizing was used by websmasters to create well-scaling sites, when changing font size in browser.
But in modern times, I see that scaling a page scales all elements, even px-sized, so ...
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What documentation exists for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?
PHP users have the PHP.net docs
Ruby users have Ruby-Doc.org
Python users have docs.python.org
jQuery users have docs.jquery.com
All are considered go-to references when working within those ...
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Is there a way to compile LESS files to CSS (so that every browser doesn't have to)?
I'm considering using LESS but I cringe at the thought of a browser having JavaScript disabled and my CSS not being readable (and the site looking awful).
Also, it offends the engineer in me to force ...
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If something can be achieved using CSS or JavaScript, which will render faster? [closed]
I have two working solutions for hover navigation that I've built. One solution uses JS, one use CSS. My question is, assuming a browser is JS-enabled, which solution will work faster?
I'll most ...
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CSS Sprites: Are they worth the trouble?
I can't help but wonder whether CSS sprites are very much over-used.
First of all, if I stick all my images in a single file it makes an aweful lot of empty space. I know, that shouldn't make an ...
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How is fluid theme's impact on rendering performance?
I am new to responsive design and now re-making a template to make it more responsive. This involves redefining many fixed width and fonts as context-dependent percentage (% or em) instead of pixels ...
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seperating html/css, jQuery/jcarousel button [closed]
I have a jQuery plugin (jcarousel) that creates a rotating carousel of pictures. Each of these pictures was originally designed to have a hyperlink button carrying the user to box office site. The ...
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How do you customize a Facebook like box?
I've found a few articles that allow you to customize the Facebook like box, but it's mostly just background and border color. Is there a way to customize the text color on a facebook like box? and ...
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Tools for designing CSS layouts
Could you please advise me the tools that can draw images like
this or this serving as a design for CSS layout?
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Are there any snippet software app for windows user?
I'm a web designer, and I'm used to collect snippets of code I find in the internet.
I found snippely as a great snippet app but it doesn't have export or import features when I'm going to different ...
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Is traditional JavaScript image pre-loading taboo
I remember the good-old-days (not really) back when I was still sucking the teet of Dreamweaver to build websites and the lure of playing copypasta with fancy built-in scripts (ex, image-swap) was ...
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Automated image/css sprite generation from website DOM
I know there are plenty of online tools which let's you upload your images there and it generates the appropriate CSS/sprite(s) to be used with them on your page.
Is there any such website/tool ...
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Why is <strong> in Safari significantly bolder than other browsers?
I am just about to go live with a new website - and during cross browser testing i noticed that the bold fonts in safari are FAR bolder (horribly chunky) in Safari than in the other big 4.
The font ...
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Tool to identify Internet Explorer rendering differences with css
I develop website using chrome and mac os as development environment.
Since my audience is pretty specific I don't feel the necessity for too much backward compatibility with IE8 and less.
However ...
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Why aren't we supposed to use <table> in a design?
What are some clear and logical reasons for why we shouldn't be designing websites with tables? Where are the benefits, what has been driving this idea in the industry? When is it okay to use a table?
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CSS just for most basic HTML [closed]
I've read that my note system Wikidpad, which exports to very simple HTML, can use CSS (http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/help/HtmlCss.html)
The elements in the output are not more than basic headings, ...
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Flipping text is good for SEO?
My client's name company has a flipped letter on its name, so for example "PEOPLE" the P is flipped, I managed to flip the P with 2 span tags, but now I am thinking to do this for SEO reasons is not ...
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How is style of tags at math.stackexchange done?
I like the style of tags at math.stackexchange.com. In fact, I'd like to create something similar and I was wondering how are they styled.
First of all, I've launched Firebug and was trying to ...
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Determine content length to have a dynamic hr tag
Is there a way to determine the length of the content contained inside an h2 element, which changes. So an hr tag can be set to the same length plus some additional width?
so it would look sort of ...
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Why does display:table-cell not center content without display:table? [closed]
I'm looking for the most efficient (or elegant) way to vertically and horizontally center content of variable height. I've come up with this: http://cssdeck.com/t/2veysdkg/16, which uses css tables to ...
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Best tutorial ever! Is there one just like it for XHTML and CSS…? [closed]
I have been learning Ruby on Rails using www.railstutorial.org, and I LOVE it! My only problem? Well, I can build the applications just fine, but my knowledge of designing the skin (CSS) of the ...
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Issue with CSS font color in Webkit in Lion (#444 looks darker than #333) [closed]
I have a strange issue with Safari and Chrome Mac (19.0.1084.54) in OS X Lion.
Here it is, very simply put:
When I display it in a Webkit browser, text set in Helvetica Neue and color Hex #444 ...
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Can the blog width be dynamic on Blogger?
I see that Blogger will let you set the blog width under Overview-> Template Designer->Adjust Widths.
However, this seems to be a fixe width - is there an easy way to set a max and a min width?
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CSS/HTML element formatting template
I'm trying to locate an HTML template that shows all the elements in HTML, so that the basic aspects of typography, colour schemes, margins and so on can be applied to it using CSS. Those styles can ...
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Which online test should I take or any method to know, how much knowledge I acquire as web designer? [closed]
Which online test should I take or any method to know, how much knowledge I acquire as web designer?
Both.
1. Practical knowledge
&
2.theoretical knowledge.
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iPad and iPhone browser rotating images on site?
I am experiencing an odd occurance on a site I'm building right now where images are displayed 90 degrees different from how they are supposed to, but while maintaining the normal dimensions of the ...
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Tool to view currently used CSS definitions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Refactoring large/old CSS files
Wondering if anyone knows of a product that would help you to "see" all the css styles currently defined on a page.
For example... Say ...
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How do I make a gradient overlay transparent?
The site I'm working on has three layers (from the bottom): a tiled background image, a simple top-to-bottom gradient, and the actual content window on top. I am trying to change the opacity of the ...
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Change CSS EMs to Percentage Automatically
I cheated on a small site I was working on and used a site builder (Web Dwarf by Virtual Mechanics) to save time. I didn't realize it at the time, but this builder specifies the width, height and ...
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Alt text vs CSS sprites (SEO vs speed)
I'm reworking our site to reduce HTTP requests and blocking requests by concatenating JS, css, gzipping, loading all JS via LABjs and using CSS sprites for images that were loaded individually via ...
