To make it easier for your visitors to visually separate similar elements in your web page (such as table rows, paragraphs, list items etc), you can give alternate elements a different background colour. You can achieve this using a server-side script but here’s a really simple way to do this using JavaScript.
Jun 092009
Jun 062009
If you have required fields in a form, a nice visual clue for the user is to have a message ‘pop up’ if the field hasn’t been filled in. A simple example of what I mean can be seen here.
May 272009
What is pagination?
Simply put, pagination is splitting up many results in to bite size chunks (pages) that helps the user quickly sort through the results instead of having to scroll way down the page to find what they’re looking for.
May 162009
In the 2.1 CSS Specification, there are four different pseudo-elements available to use. These are :after, :before, :first-letter and :first-line. Here’s a quick description of each one.
May 032009
Although best practice dictates that you shouldn’t force a new browser window on a user, sometimes (perhaps for a PDF file) you really want to. If you’re using a transitional doctype, this isn’t a problem. You’d simply use the ‘target’ attribute and set it to ‘_blank’.
Simple Dropdown Menu
In an ideal world, creating a cross-browser dropdown menu would be straight forward. Unfortunately, the world of browsers is far from ideal (as long as Internet Explorer 6 still exists!). For other browsers, the following code works fine: Continue reading »