Archive for the “CSS” category

Understanding a browser’s default CSS

by Mike Badgley on January 19, 2011

On the heels of my recent post on the potential pitfalls of using CSS resets, this post continues in that same vein. The question of why we even need to use a CSS reset is a good place to start. (…)

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How to achieve vertical text with CSS

by Mike Badgley on October 18, 2010

Jeffrey Way, of Nettuts+ had an interesting problem this morning that he posed to the Twitter community which was finding the easiest way to create vertical text with CSS. A number of suggestions were put forth – some using JavaScript (…)

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A closer look at the max-width property

by Mike Badgley on July 27, 2010

I came across an interesting issue today with the max-width property. It’s a property that I’ve only used in a few occasions in the past – mainly due to the constraints of legacy browsers that do not support it. That (…)

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Inline-Block whitespace workaround

by Mike Badgley on April 28, 2010

In response to an article written yesterday (April 26th, 2010) about the inline-block display property on Impressive Webs, there was some debate on unwanted whitespace that appears to the right of elements that are styled with this property. If you (…)

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Using a unitless line-height to enhance your typography

by Mike Badgley on February 10, 2010

I came across a fairly old article on Web typography (by Eric Meyer) this morning that I found pretty interesting and thought I would share some of my feelings on the subject matter. Up to this point I’ve been doing (…)

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