Archive for the 'CSS' Category

Client-Side menu separators with jquery

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Have you ever pulled your hair about separators between menu entries on websites? Or just plain fell asleep? The task is trivial, but it is boring. Depending on what server side solution you are using, you end up with 4 to twenty lines of code.
CSS3 would save us from that boredom, but there is almost […]

A draggable masked image behind transparent navigation

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

A friend asked whether it would be possible to have an image that can be dragged behind a mask, with a transparent navigation in the upper part of the page. The images are too large to fit on the page, so you need to be able to move it. Yes, they could be resized, but […]

Internet Explorer cuts off the ‘W’ with 11px Arial

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I noticed several times that sometimes Internet Explorer cuts off the left leg of the W. After a little investigation, I found that this happens when a W in 11px Arial touches the left border of a box without left padding or margin. If the box is the first element in another box, and that […]