Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

CSS Frameworks

Apr
18
2008

With the increasing trend for frameworks, including frameworks like Ruby on Rails and JavaScript frameworks such as Prototype and jQuery – we have also seen the advent of CSS frameworks.

Yahoo where the first on the band wagon with the release of YUI Grids CSS which offers an easy to use interface that doesn’t need to be downloaded onto your computer. (more…)


Printer-friendly CSS Pages

Feb
28
2008

By using CSS, a web developer can give users a useful and professional way to print-out pages from their website.

By using CSS media selectors, modern browsers can pick-up a different stylesheet for handheld devices, screen readers and print-layouts.

Now we will look at producing a Print CSS file (the CSS could be placed in the head of the page, however, it is good practice to use external CSS files, therefore we will look at external CSS for this article). (more…)


Reset Your CSS

Dec
12
2007

As any web developer using CSS will know, different browsers render pages in different ways. Some browsers have a built-in stylesheet that can effect such things as margin and padding on page elements.

By resetting the built-in stylesheet in modern browsers a lot of the anomalies can be avoided – reducing the headache of adjusting CSS files by trial and error. (more…)