What happens when you tell two siblings to play nice together and share? Sometimes they listen and other times they fight. As a parent, I experience this with my own kids, but only one time have I ever experienced this in the browser landscape. Take the following example:
td { border-left: 1px solid #CCC; }
td:first-child,
td:last-child { [...]
Tag Archives: CSS
Sibling Rivalry
The not-so-great debate
Recently there have been some bloggers writing about and commenting on the age old debate of tables vs. CSS for layout. In once such post, the author drank the so called “css kool-aid” and woke up with a headache from “banging his head against the CSS wall.” Another site claims to have “scientifically determined” the [...]
Rich Typographic Headlines
Most designers and developers in the industry have at least a basic understanding of how to work with typefaces on the web. From the commonly used CSS font-face and line-height properties to the lesser used properties of first-letter and first-line, we actually have plenty of options for styling typography with CSS. But what do we [...]