css really needs a valign attribute bad. having to use the margins or absolute positioning or some other crazy technique is annoying and probably not standard practice
Spelling counts. It's not "divitus" and "classitus." Those sound like characters out of some bad Roman play. It's "divitis" and "classitis," from the suffix "-itis" which means an inflammation of or, more figuratively, an excess of.
#4 Is just bs.I ALWAYS use absolute positioning, because it's easier, cleaner and predictable and because it is how things are suppose to be used, Float: is originally not made to position elements, even if all lot of people do use it for that purpose.If you know what you're doing, absolute positioning works perfectly, and is cross-platform without bug.The rest is mostly common sense or stolen for Zeldman.
I agree with you here. It is quite annoying.If the text fits on one line, usually I just give the p tag a line-height equal to the size outer container. This doesn't work for everything as a height needs to be explicitly set.Example:#mydiv { height:100px; }#mydiv p { line-height:100px; }or if you use em's (which I prefer):#mydiv { height:5em; }#mydiv p { line-height:5em; }If the text is multi-line, I usually set the outer container to position:relative use absolute positioning in combination with a negative margin-top for the inner p tag. This is quite an ugly way of doing things.I'm going to have to remember JaffaTheCake's method, and see how that works out for me. Still ugly, but slightly more elegant than my approach.
hey cbrack, would you mind doin that for me? i actually need 10 more, then i think i might be able to make a good website. cuz i only have 90 tips, i need an even 100.
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brianjjohnsonMar 27, 2007
css really needs a valign attribute bad. having to use the margins or absolute positioning or some other crazy technique is annoying and probably not standard practice
Closed AccountMar 27, 2007
how many more of these types of pages does digg need? Buried as lame
anonym41414Mar 27, 2007
Spelling counts. It's not "divitus" and "classitus." Those sound like characters out of some bad Roman play. It's "divitis" and "classitis," from the suffix "-itis" which means an inflammation of or, more figuratively, an excess of.
matgorbMar 27, 2007
#4 Is just bs.I ALWAYS use absolute positioning, because it's easier, cleaner and predictable and because it is how things are suppose to be used, Float: is originally not made to position elements, even if all lot of people do use it for that purpose.If you know what you're doing, absolute positioning works perfectly, and is cross-platform without bug.The rest is mostly common sense or stolen for Zeldman.
kdayMar 27, 2007
I agree with you here. It is quite annoying.If the text fits on one line, usually I just give the p tag a line-height equal to the size outer container. This doesn't work for everything as a height needs to be explicitly set.Example:#mydiv { height:100px; }#mydiv p { line-height:100px; }or if you use em's (which I prefer):#mydiv { height:5em; }#mydiv p { line-height:5em; }If the text is multi-line, I usually set the outer container to position:relative use absolute positioning in combination with a negative margin-top for the inner p tag. This is quite an ugly way of doing things.I'm going to have to remember JaffaTheCake's method, and see how that works out for me. Still ugly, but slightly more elegant than my approach.
appetiteMar 27, 2007
It started out useless but the points about divitus and classitus were pretty decent.
elmoselyeeMar 27, 2007
hey cbrack, would you mind doin that for me? i actually need 10 more, then i think i might be able to make a good website. cuz i only have 90 tips, i need an even 100.
Closed AccountMar 27, 2007
"Validate your code" says the page that throws a Javascript error.
steschApr 7, 2007
A lot of the "classitus" and "divitus" nowadays is caused by IE's lack of support for all of CSS2's selectors.
kizioAug 15, 2007
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123zoozleDec 17, 2007
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Closed AccountJan 7, 2009
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