Enabling CSS RGBA Support in IE

One of the most frustrating things about working with newer CSS attributes is that while most modern browsers will support them in their latest versions, IE almost never keeps up. Such is the case with the RGBA color declaration which enables developers to specify an alpha transparency along with a color. This works great in […]

9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them

Internet Explorer – the bane of most web developers’ existence. Up to 60% of your development can be wasted just trying to squash out IE specific bugs which isn’t really a productive use of your time. In this tutorial, you are going to learn about the most common IE bugs and rendering disparities and how […]

Cross-browser Drop Shadows Using Pure CSS

There’s an awful lot of noise at the moment regarding dropping IE6 and forging ahead with CSS3 properties for the finer touches on web layouts. One such example is adding drop shadows to content blocks. There are countless ways of achieving this, most requiring additional HTML markup and one or more PNG images. Not to […]

On Having Layout – The Concept of hasLayout in Internet Explorer

A lot of Internet Explorer’s rendering inconsistencies can be fixed by giving an element “layout”. John Gallant and Holly Bergevin classified these inconsistencies as “dimensional bugs” meaning that they can often be solved by applying a width or height. This leads to a question of why “layout” can change the rendering of and the relationships […]

pseudo-class, pseudo-element, pseudo-CSS: IE bugs

This article is intended to summarize bugs and inconsistencies regarding pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes in IE6 and IE7…

Rounded Corners in Internet Explorer

One of the reasons that I love Firefox and Webkit-based browsers (Chrome, Safari) is the ability to effortlessly create rounded-corner elements using pure CSS. As you probably already know, IE doesn’t allow you to create rounded corners without using images or endless hacking. Enter the CurvyCorners javascript project. CurvyCorners allows you to quickly create rounded […]

Simple Cross-Browser Transparency with CSS

Simple CSS code for Transparency setting for all browsers, IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome…

CSS hacks & browser version detection – a new approach

How to target almost any browser from the server side using PHP. The workflow… Style everything for a web standards compliant browser like Firefox or Opera. Load an additional PHP file which outputs CSS styles with specific hacks. That’s it you’re done.

Cross-browser drop shadows using pure CSS

There’s an awful lot of noise at the moment regarding dropping IE6 and forging ahead with CSS3 properties for the finer touches on web layouts. Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? One such example is adding drop shadows to content blocks. There are countless ways of achieving this, most requiring […]

Text Rotation with CSS

An article about text rotation using just CSS. Thankfully, many of the popular browsers of today support the ability to rotate HTML elements. Even better? We can make it work in Internet Explorer back to version 5.5 even…

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