Background - With my new style here I was having a few problems with IE. Mainly being if the navigation was taller than the content, it would push the left out to the edge of the screen. To stop this, as I couldnt see any easy way out of it with css, I decided to put my blogroll on a sperate page within the blog.I wanted to have a current blogroll being displayed as it changes quite often. I found my way to this link blogroll html output. I checked the source of that page as I expected it to be an unordered list (as it should). However I found lots of divs, one for every link. Why have they done that? Even Bob The Builder (TM) knows you should use the right tool for the right job. So instead of using a current blogroll I had to eidit it and use one that wont change. So if anyone knows how I could change the list from div's to li's using php help would be most welcome :)
Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer
He decided to use Internet Explorer, and click on every popup and link he could find. His goal was to see if AdAware would adequately clean his system up.
A good poster to place around the workplace/ school to encourage people to question using Firefox
I have sorted the comments from this post. Averaged it out and such like. I put it all in to a text file.Here are some statistics from it:
Average feeds: 118.61;
Most feeds: Olivier Travers with 776 feeds;
Least feeds: Nicole and Olly Hodgson
I appear at #50 on the list :)
When working with css if you want your whole site to have the same font you use body { font-family: myfont; } This is all well and good if you don't use any forms. As in my experience these need their own rules (because they like to be special). When ever I create forms I have to restyle the input and textarea. However, I thought about the use of * instead of body for setting site wide style rules. (view=Example 1 - using body; Example 1 - using *)
This is good we are all happy because we have to do less coding to style everything on the site :) However, we have missed something, if the form elements are not being affected by my style rules, when supposedly they are inherited, surely there must be a reason for this. Ok not inheriting style that it should is one thing. (At this point i am assuming you have all seen the article Styling Form Controls on 456 Berea Street) Completely ignoring style rules is another. (the best example of this is trying to style a file input) So why do these style rules fail: because when the browsers were made they thought of your safety. Imagine a file input form where everything has been made the same colour so you cant see any of it. This could enable a website to download files from your machine without you knowing. Many people have tried to style file inputs the best one I have seen is Mr Peter-Paul Koch's. However as hard as you try it will never bee 100% cross browser compatible.
So going back to my first point. Using the body to style all the sites fonts/ colours is the best way about it. Otherwise, we get messy from fields that we are never (with the best will) going to be able to style properly.
As you can see I have re-styled this page. Still having a few initial problems with Internet Explorer. The main one is the background, if the content is smaller than the column down the side, the main background in IE goes all funny. I fixed a few coding issues with this release. For example, all the side column is now made up of lists rather than divs with lists in them. If anyone spots any problems or faults please post them. Please also note the random background colour :)