Daily Archives: June 10, 2008

Saving my Macs’ OS from being rebuilt

I installed some shareware about 2 months ago that totally destroyed permissions on my home and work Macs. Yes, I installed it in both places. I had finally resolved to rebuilding both machines because standard Disk Utility only repairs permissions for those files that have receipts in your /Library/Receipts and ~/Library/Receipts folders.  That is a [...]

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CSS Box Model

To understand the CSS box model you must understand that every object (element) displayed on a web page is considered to be a rectangular box which has a content area surrounded by padding, a border and margins.  The padding resides inside the border and sits next to the content.  The margin is outside of the [...]

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CSS Border Styles

CSS controls the type of line drawn for box borders. All these borders look different but fairly similar from browser to browser. To set up the line type, you use its keyword: solid, dotted, dashed, double, groove, ridge, inset, outset, none, and hidden. Solid Border border: 6px solid #82272C; Dotted Border border: 6px dotted #82272C; [...]

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