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Friday, 30 June 2006
I got an email from an anonymous reader a few days ago who, after presumably reading my recent article on “pretty tables”, wanted to know if there was a way to extend the idea:
Do you know if it’s possible to change the background colour of an entire table row on a “mouseover event” without using javascript? I know how to do this using image rollovers and javascript but I’m wandering if there’s some way of doing it using CSS instead.
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Tuesday, 27 June 2006
As part of a web redesign project, a colleague of mine wanted to redo the pages to fit 1024×768 resolution but he also wanted an alternative design to accommodate the relatively small percentage of users still stuck with 800×600 pixels. He wanted to know how to go about determening the users browser resolution, so he could present the content using the appropriate template which matches that resolution.
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Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Back in old days of web design, making “pretty tables” was usually achieved by nesting one table within another. By setting the background colour of the outer table a few shades darker than the inner one, you could achieve a nice “bordered” look. With the move to XHTML, this is generally considered to be poor design as it contravenes the principle that you should use CSS for the presentation and the HTML only for markup.
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Wednesday, 30 November 2005
The following list of 140 HTML colours stems from the original X11 colour names and is our preferred choice of defining colours in web content. While not recognised by some of the older browsers, all modern general-purpose browsers support the full list:
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