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CSS tips and articles

I began teaching myself Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in 2004 when I graduated from University and started work in website development. At the time it was difficult to find well written resources that thoroughly explained how various CSS techniques worked.
In the past few years, CSS adoption has increased dramatically. These days most high profile websites [...]

Posted 01 February 2007 † Pete § Tech § css § javascript ‡ Comments (1) °

MultipleIEs Cookie Problem Solved

Last weekend I wrote about how to run IE6 and IE7 on the same computer. Now this technique was working very well until I needed to test some CSS modifications that I had made on the phuser interface in IE6. It was then I discovered the standalone version of IE6 has a problem with storing [...]

Posted 31 January 2007 † Pete § Internet Explorer § Tech § css ‡ Comments (2) °

IG Syntax Higliter CSS Width Fix for IE6

If you have a site with a narrow main content area like this blog then the IG Syntax Highliter plugin can break your layout in Internet Explorer 6. This problem can be easily solved by modfying the file syntax_hilite_css.css. Here is where this file is located:
your_blogs_dir/wp-content/plugins/ig_syntax_hilite/css/syntax_hilite_css.css
Below is the first change I've made aroud line 7, [...]

Posted 27 January 2007 † Pete § Tech § css § plugins ‡ Comments (0) °

Run IE6 and IE7 on the Same Computer

I'm back home at my parents house this weekend. I had a bit of spare time of my hands this afternoon so decided I was going to fix the IE6 rendering bug I found yesterday. My parents laptop is fairly new so has IE7 installed, however I've discovered a stand-alone version of IE6 on evolt.org. [...]

Posted 27 January 2007 † Pete § Internet Explorer § Tech ‡ Comments (5) °