Category Archive for “Structure”
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- CSS/(X)HTML Tutorial: Hovering Accessibility Jump Menu
- Recently, a reader named Don asked about ...
- XHMTL/CSS Remix: Creative Commons License
- Not too long ago, I played with the idea of releasing article content under a Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0) License. At the time, I wanted to host my own copies ...
- Error-Free Feed-Validation Links for Feedburner-Redirected Feeds
- Just a quick tip on how to create error-free links to feed validation services for feeds that are redirected through Feedburner. For example, let’s say our site’s main feed is originally located at: http://domain.tld/feed/ If ...
- What is the Difference Between XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1?
- As some of you (e.g., Louis) may have noticed during the recent site redesign, I decided to switch the default ...
- Prevent JavaScript Elements from Breaking Page Layout when Following Yahoo Performance Tip #6: Place Scripts at the Bottom
- By now, everyone is familiar with the Yahoo Developer Network’s 14 “best-practices” for speeding up your website. Certainly, many (if not all) ...
- Absolute Horizontal and Vertical Centering via CSS
- Recently, a reader named Max encountered some scrolling issues while implementing our absolutely centered layout technique. Of course, by ...
- Bare-Bones HTML/XHTML Document Templates
- In this post I have assembled a concise collection of conforming, bare-bones document templates for the following doctypes: Document Templates XHTML 1.0 XHTML 1.0 Strict ...
- Rethinking Structural Design with New Elements in HTML 5
- [ Keywords: html, design, markup, structure, elements, header, footer, article, section, header, nav ] HTML 5, also known as ...
- The Friendliest Link Targets in the Neighborhood
- [ Keywords: link, target, blank, replace, self, parent, top ] The target ...
- URL Character Codes
- URL’s frequently employ potentially conflicting characters such as question marks, ampersands, and pound signs. Fortunately, it is possible to encode such characters via their escaped hexadecimal ASCII representations. For example, we would write ...
- Embed QuickTime Notes Plus
- This post contains random notes for embedding QuickTime within web pages. QuickTime Embed Attributes via CSS...
- Feed your Image via Atom or RSS
- This quick tutorial explains how to add images to both Atom and RSS feeds. Although both formats allow for image-inclusion, feed-reader support for image-display is currently quite limited. Hopefully, that will change in ...
- Embed Flash and Video via the object Tag
- Embed Windows Media Player via the object tag Here is the general format for including .wmv files in web pages: ...
- Embed External Content via iframe and div
- By using an within a , it is possible to include external web content in most any web document. This method serves as an excellent alternative to actual frames, which are not ...
- Exploring the (X)HTML Link Element
- Most Web authors are familiar with the <link> element included within the <head> element of many (X)HTML documents. The <link> element enables authors to associate external resources to the (X)HTML document. <link> element ...
- Absolutely Centered Layout
- Absolute Centering with CSS & (X)HTML Designing an absolutely centered layout involves centering a division both horizontally and vertically. When this is done, the centered division (or other element) is centered according to the ...
- Fun with Downlevel Conditional Comments
- Ever since Internet Explorer 5 (IE5), Microsoft has included browser support for "downlevel conditional comments," a non-scripted method of browser detection. Downlevel conditional comments (DCC) are a useful tool for targeting directives to ...
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