HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the language behind the web pages of the Internet, created by Tim Berners-Lee, and uses a system of tags for applying layout, formatting and links to content. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to describe the presentation of the HTML. This section contains howtos, tips and tricks about how to use HTML and CSS.
The CSS3 properties border-radius and box-shadow allow a designer to easily create rounded input boxes with pure HTML and CSS without having to resort to images. This post shows how it can be done and deals with vendor prefixes and other cross browser issues to ensure the input boxes work across all browsers.
This post covers the HTML reset input button. I know this is very basic HTML but after some recent responses to my "clear a form with jQuery" post I’m beginning to think a lot of web developers must not know how to do a reset with regular old HTML and seem to think you need to use Javascript.
A honeypot field in an HTML form is a hidden input field designed to work out whether or not it is a spam bot submitting your contact form, comments form or similar. For some reason I’ve never actually covered this myself on this blog so will point you in the direction of a couple of other blogs which explain how these work, and then talk about an issue I discovered recently with autofill in Google Chrome. It may also be an issue with auto complete in other browsers.
I wouldn’t normally bother with anything other than the default web fonts but the design for the new Personalised Plates website (still in development) calls for a stylized font which is similar to that used on the plates themselves for headings, lead-in paragraph text and so on. As a result I’ve been messing around with @font-face this week and present how to do this here, along with a bunch of useful references online.
This post is a response to a question asked on my "Show and hide an element with jQuery – Part 1 of 2" article about how to hide text when the page loads and then show it with a button (or some other method to reveal the text at a later time).
This post looks at how to specify different CSS style rules for printing: using a secondary style sheet for print only, or defining the print styles in the main style sheet using @media print.