HTML And CSS

Last week’s HTML/CSS post looked at stlying optgroup and options with Firefox and this post does the same but for Internet Explorer. This will be followed up with posts about the same for Opera, Chrome and Safari and then I’ll present the findings in a tabular format so it’s easy to see what can and can’t be styled consistentlyacross browsers.

The <label> tag is useful in HTML forms and is an often overlooked (or not known at all) tag in the HTML coder’s arsenal. I know that I often overlook it myself. This post looks at how it is especially useful with checkboxes and radio buttons.

Last week’s HTML/CSS post looked at using optgroup to group options in an HTML select box and this time I’ll look at how to style optgroup and options with CSS. This post concentrates on Firefox.

Following on with my current theme of looking at some useful form tags in HTML (last week I looked at fieldset and legend and the week before at label) this week’s HTML post will look at using the optgroup tag to group options together in a select box.

Last week I looked at the very useful <label> tag for HTML forms and this week look at the also very useful <fieldset> and <legend> tags which can help when breaking up a large form into several logical sections, or just to add a bit of style to a small form.

Jeffrey Way posted an interesting tutorial about CSS Shapes at Nettuts and wrote an observation about the <blockquote> tag at the end of the post: "Did you know that, if you want your document to validate, you can’t place text directly into a blockquote? It needs to be nested within a parent element." So I decided to check it out with this post of my own using the W3C validator to check the results of my tests.