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So my latest CSS fight, with which browser? IE, of course! I was updating someone's site, and set up a new "side menu" type navigation. I set it up as an unordered list using images for bullets, because I wanted them to change on :hover (and we know that IE will not listen to any […]

Is it just me or with the last update to Firefox has it been… uhm.. particularly buggy? I've had it crashed more than ever before, and it's just… slow… I used to LOVE firefox. But this is getting pretty annoying. I don't have an outrageous number of addons/extensions running, but I might try turning them […]

From Javascript Get or Set Checked Radio Value // return the value of the radio button that is checked // return an empty string if none are checked, or // there are no radio buttons function getCheckedValue(radioObj) { if(!radioObj) return ""; var radioLength = radioObj.length; if(radioLength == undefined) if(radioObj.checked) return radioObj.value; else return ""; for(var […]

Boy, do I love that "Position is everything" site. Every problem I've been having these days with CSS, the fix can be found there. Here's today's CSS dilema. Had a simple floated div. Gave it a margin – and for some reason, IE doubled it. The solution is just to add "display: inline;" to the […]

Ran into this problem today: Had a container div with floated divs inside. However the container div was shrinking up above the bottom of the floated divs inside. See example here. Found this solution which basically suggested adding the following so that it wouldn't do that: .containerdiv:after { content: "."; display: block; height: 0; clear: […]

Ever email someone a really long link and have the thing wrap to two lines, and then your friend gets the email clicks on the link but it's broken so they can't go to it? I just found this website: Email URL that will give you a simple URL to send to people and it […]

Like I said, I'm still fighting my way through understanding CSS. Here's a little tid-bit I finally understand today. Had a bit of text that I wanted to have centered in a nav bar. "vertical-align: middle;" didn't seem to do anything. Found this article which said this: the thing with vertical-align is that it's vertical […]

Just installed this captcha code on a form and it was extremely simple to do and so far seems to work great. Just thought I'd share.

Just some link storage – nothing ground breaking here… A list of stock photo sites: GettyImages.com Picturequest.com Superstock.com Masterfile.com Punchstock.com Stockbyte.com Iconica.com / Photonica.com Veer.com AgePhotostock.com LuckyPix.com estockphoto.com istockphoto.com Foto Search

Needed to do some fancy footwork with htaccess and rewriting urls for redirection. Found this tutorial on yourhtmlsource.com, which so far seems pretty simple to understand and helpful.