PROBLEM: We have these divs that styling with .tocolor, but we also need the unique identifier 1,2,3,4 etc. so we are adding that it as another class tocolor-1. Is there a way to have just 1 class tocolor-*. we tried using a wildcard * as in this css, but it didn’t work. SOLUTION 1: What […]
Normalize.css : Normalize.css is a small CSS file that provides better cross-browser consistency in the default styling of HTML elements. It’s a modern, HTML5-ready, alternative to the traditional CSS reset. Reset CSS : A CSS Reset (or “Reset CSS”) is a short, often compressed (minified) set of CSS rules that resets the styling of all […]
display: inline The display-inline property is used to transform a block level element to an inline element. When we apply this to a <div></div>, an <li></li> or a <p></p> it’s akin to converting it to a <span></span>. display: inline-block You can create a grid of boxes that fills the browser width and wraps nicely. This […]
PROBLEM : Use the calc() function in a Sass stylesheet, Here’s code: If we use the literal 50px instead of body_padding variable, we get exactly what we want. However, when we switch to the variable, this is the output: How can we get Sass to recognize that it needs to replace the variable within the […]
PROBLEM: pre tags are super-useful for code blocks in HTML and for debugging output while writing scripts, but how to make the text word-wrap instead of printing out one long line? SOLUTION 1: CSS: SOLUTION 2: This works great to wrap text and maintain white-space within the pre-tag: SOLUTION 3: Skipping the pre tag and […]
PROBLEM: We trying to select input elements of all types except radio and checkbox. Many people have shown that you can put multiple arguments in :not, but using type doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas? SOLUTION 1: • Why :not just use two :not: SOLUTION 2: For SASS : It can be used in 2 […]
PROBLEM: Using conditional comments it is easy to target Internet Explorer with browser-specific CSS rules: Sometimes it is the Gecko engine (Firefox) that misbehaves. What would be best way to target only Firefox with your CSS rules and not a single other browser? That is, not only should Internet Explorer ignore the Firefox-only rules, but […]
PROBLEM: We have a div with two images and an h1. All of them need to be vertically aligned within the div, next to each other. One of the images needs to be absolute positioned within the div. What is the CSS needed for this to work on all common browsers? SOLUTION 1: HTML: CSS: […]
PROBLEM: Can we have multiple <tbody> tags in same <table>? If yes then in what scenarios should we use multiple <tbody> tags? SOLUTION 1: Yes you can use them, for example I use them to more easily style groups of data, like this: Then you can style them easily, like this: SOLUTION 2: Yes. From […]
PROBLEM : We have a <div> block with some fancy visual content that we don’t want to change. we want to make it a clickable link. It something like <a href=”…”><div> … </div></a>, but that is valid XHTML 1.1. SOLUTION 1: You can’t make the div a link itself, but you can make an <a> […]