CSS Hacks and Filters

The theory of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a means to an end: better, more efficient Web site design. In the real world, however, CSS does not provide a perfect, clear-cut path to that goal.To achieve the promise of CSS, working designers have employed a series of workarounds known collectively as hacks. At the most basic level, a CSS hack is a modification to the standard CSS code. Like any deviation from the norm, the use
of CSS hacks has both its supporters and detractors: Some designers feel CSS hacks are an absolute necessity and others are fervently opposed to them. Continue Reading »
CSS Hacks and Filters

CSS Mastery - Advanced Web Standards Solution

There are an increasing number of CSS resources around, yet you only have to look at a CSS mailing list to see the same questions popping up time and again: How do I center a design? What is the best rounded-corner box technique? How do I create a three-column layout? If you follow the CSS design community, finding the solution is usually a case of remembering which website a particular article or technique is featured on. However, if you are relatively new toCSS, or don’t have the time to read all the blogs, this information can be hard to track down.
Even people who are skilled at CSS run into problems with some of the more obscure aspects of CSS such as the positioning model or specificity. This is because most CSS developers are selftaught, picking up tricks from articles and other people’s code without fully understanding the specifications. And is it any wonder, as the CSS specification is complex, often contradictory, and written for browser manufacturers rather than web developers?