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[caption id="attachment_354" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Broken background on horizontal scroll"] [/caption] With the arrival of the iPad, tablet for PC and other mobile devices I've encountered more and more issues with my css not doing what you might think it would do on a smaller screen. Particularly when the design width of the site exceeds that of the browser window. CSS backgrounds fill to 100% of the browser window. You might think that this means the whole window but it...

Coming to you a day late because of the funtastic holiday we had here in BC yesterday it is your CSS tip of the Day! When you are handcoding sites it can be a real time saver to learn some CSS shorthand declarations. The most important thing to keep in mind when you use these declarations is that you must ALWAYS define all of the properties in the pre-determined manner. This ensures that your declaration is parsed as expected in a cross browser friendly manner. Today I am going to outline the...

Once upon a time there was a very old browser that continued to haunt web developers across the globe long after it should have become ancient history... I still design for IE6 deficiencies as of this writing. Internet Explorer is the only browser that I have to check three different versions when I am coding and cutting up a new site.  One of it's limitations that was becoming increasingly difficult to deal with was it's non-support of the transparency in a png file. gifs just no longer cut...