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CSS Hacks and Filters: Making Cascading Style Sheets Work by Joseph Lowery

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By Joseph Lowery

* Cascading kind Sheets (CSS) is a technique of describing how an online web page should still glance in an internet browser, yet progressively more browsers don't help CSS within the related means, forcing builders to always play catch-up to maintain their websites constant * Bestselling writer Joe Lowery eases the discomfort for these net builders who aren't feeling the CSS love-he courses readers via real-world workarounds that might aid a CSS-based web site glance and paintings how it used to be intended to * Readers will grit their the teeth, clench their fists, and roll their eyes for the final time after they methods to craft fluid multi-column layouts, construct interactive navigation, repair the field version, enforce CSS hacks in Dreamweaver, and extra cool methods

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As shown in Figure 2-12, gaps like those in the upper-left cell are a fact of life. FIGURE 2-12: Even the savviest of CSS hacks can’t fix rendering issues like the misdrawn upper-left table cell border. Fixing Internet Explorer 3 and 4 Designers recently entering the market may find it hard to believe, but in the early days of the Web, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was an also-ran. Yet, even though Netscape was king of the browsers, it was Internet Explorer 3 that first included Cascading Style Sheets support when it was released in August 1996.

Complications in applying CSS are, in essence, a fact of life. Software engineers often shorten the phrase “fact of life” to FOL when referring to an unchangeable condition. Some bugs can be fixed, while others are FOL. The implication is, of course, that when some aspect of a technology is FOL, you’re SOL. Whether or not you’re incorporating CSS hacks is a choice every Web designer must make. For me, CSS hacks are a FOL—and they get the job done. To hack or not to hack: in a perfect world, no; in the real world, yes.

Take a look at Figure 2-1 to see a page that renders fine in every modern browser except Netscape 4. The jumbled text is caused by misaligned div tags, while the overlay of text and image comes from Netscape’s non-support of the background-position property. The focus of this section is on areas where CSS causes problems in Netscape 4 and can be fixed or worked around. The primary trouble spots include the following: Ⅲ Fonts—Font properties are not inherited; headings with adjacent font-size grow incorrectly; font-weight interferes with and tags; improper application of color displays text in a vivid green.

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