Molly’s recent post Name Your Best IE 7 Bug Resources reminded me about a pretty obscure CSS parsing bug I found in IE 6. Since IE 7 is supposed to have fixed a number of issues with CSS parsing I thought I should probably check to see if the bug still existed there.
It does.
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There are a couple of lesser known CSS display properties, run-in and compact
that while probably not the most exciting (or useful) parts of the CSS specifications do still
look fairly interesting. Recently I have found a couple of places where the use of run-in or compact would’ve been neater
than the workaround solutions I ended up with.
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Since I last posted about it my CSS Inspector User JavaScript/Greasemonkey script has undergone a few little tweaks and changes.
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I just downloaded the lastest Opera weekly
(build 8265) to checkout the new acid 2 fixes. Aside from being the first Windows browser to pass Acid2 I was very pleased to see they’ve also made good progress on sorting out the box model for textareas. In the past
Opera appeared to include borders and padding within the width and height of the textarea,
but not anymore. This fix along with some fixes for offset and WidthLeftoffset means my resizable HeightToptextareas now look and work as intended. Nice.
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Recently at work I was presented with a football news item to add to our website — Alton College had beaten St Vincent College 3 - 1 to move level on points at the top of the Hampshire College’s under-19 League. As part of the news item there was a league table highlighting Alton’s current lofty position. Whilst marking up the table I thought it might be interesting/fun to experiment with adding a little bit of speech CSS and generated content to make the table easier to follow when read using Opera.
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While working on a theme for Moodle I thought it would be helpful to have a tool that allowed me to easily view details of an element in the document. To be able to see it’s ancestors, with any classes and id’s. Basically all the information need to write a CSS selector for that element. So I wrote a user JavaScript to do just that.
