Tag Archives: webdesign
CSS Validation
You’ll probably encounter issues when you apply your CSS, especially in Explorer for Windows. Before delving into cross-browser CSS compatibility issues, validate your style sheet. If it passes this test you are sure that the problems aren’t caused by incorrect code but by incorrect browser implementations. Validation doesn’t remove the problems, though. If you encounter [...]
Types of Styles Sheets
There are several ways of inserting styles; these methods include external styles, internal styles, and inline styles. There is an order of priority to these different styles. Basically, the more specific and the closer the rule, the more priority it has. The priority list is as follows: Inline Styles Internal Style Sheet @import for External [...]
Multiple Style Sheets (The Cascade)
If some properties have been set for the same selector in different style sheets, the values will be inherited from the more specific style sheet. The CSS cascade assigns a weight to each style rule. When several rules apply, the one with the greatest weight takes precedence. For example, an external style sheet has these [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
CSS Syntax
Syntax The CSS syntax is made up of three parts: a selector, a property and a value: selector {property: value} The selector is normally the HTML element/tag you wish to define, the property is the attribute you wish to change, and each property can take a value. The property and value are separated by a [...]
What is CSS?
What is CSS? CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets Styles define how to display HTML elements Styles are normally stored in external Style Sheets Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem External Style Sheets can save you a lot of work External Style Sheets are stored in *.CSS files Multiple style definitions [...]
Dreamweaver extension to submit forms
I found some very good Dreamweaver extensions that will submit forms and either email or send to database. There are also pages that will query your database and let you edit submissions. Pretty cool. The Hot Dreamweaver input box to Insert Form to Database and Email When I teach creating forms in Dreamweaver, I always [...]
Add a Header within a Dreamweaver CS3 CSS Template
When using the pre-built templates in Dreamweaver CS3, you need to do some tweaking to get them to work for you. Dreamweaver new file window Dreamweaver prebuilt template You will want to tweak the CSS that comes with the template. The following are CSS definitions that will need to be tweaked so you can get [...]