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I am, for the most part, self taught when it comes to HTML and CSS. I’ve take a few courses to get a piece of paper that says I can do what I say I can do but learned very little from them. I spotted...
View ArticleSomething new today
So apparently we’re supposed to be encoding ampersands when we write them in the href part of anchor tags. <a href="http://stephaniehobson.ca/file.php » ?fire=hot&beer=foamy">link</a>
View ArticleStriving for excellence
I just finished my first micoformatted page! When I was writing the information page for HOPE’s spring dinners I coded all the dinners as events and the organizers as hcards :) I did work with Brandon...
View ArticleDon’t judge me on my code
Just like the current BCIT site’s code is horrible thanks to our restrictive CMS I’m not happy with my current blog theme, please don’t judge me on it.
View ArticleStyling Our Style Sheets
I’ve been wanting to seriously redo some of the HTML and CSS behind the BCIT site since I came on board here almost a year ago. Well, I get my wish. We’re going to take some baby steps towards semantic...
View ArticleSearching for an answer
Has anyone else noticed a bunch of really old HTML coding tutorials at the top of their search results when searching for answers to HTML coding questions lately? I was trying to find out if legend was...
View ArticleCSS bug in IE 6 with: .class a:hover element
This bug seems to apply to styling elements under a class or id within a link on hover. Stuff like .class a:hover span{} or #id a:hover strong{}. The solution is to define a property on the parent link...
View ArticleMaintaining your CSS helps maintain your site
Rather than doing one giant redesign and launch, at BCIT, we’ve been doing small updates for a while now. Take our footer for example, I got to update all of them using the CSS a few times and then we...
View ArticleA style tag counts as a :first-child
EDIT 2011-09-15: All of this applies to <script> in the body as well. I have some bad news and a fix (I hesitate to call it good news). HTML5 introduces a way for us to include <style>...
View ArticleHTML5 Forms OF DOOM
I spoke at an HTML5 Code Camp the other day on HTML5 forms because HTML5 forms are cool! They’re so cool you can use most of them today anywhere you have a text field to increase functionality for your...
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