Articles tagged as “format”

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Perfect Pre Tags

If you operate a website that features lots of code examples, you know how important it is to spend some quality time styling the element. When left unstyled, wild tags will mangle your preformatted content and destroy your site’s layout. Different browsers treat the tag quite differently, varying greatly in their default handling of font-sizing, scrollbar-rendering, and word-wrapping. Indeed, getting your preformatted code to look consistent, usable, and stylish across browsers is no easy task, but it certainly can be done. In this article, I’ll show you everything you need to create perfect tags. First thangs first Before getting into it, let’s take a moment to ensure we’re all ...

Sexy HTML List Tricks

Behold the ubiquitous list elements, and ! These two sexy elements help millions of websites display lists of information in clean, semantic fashion. Without them, we’d be crawling around like filthy cavemen, eating dirt and howling at the moon. But these list elements aren’t just sexy, they are also extremely flexible, enabling us humble designers to create robust list configurations that are semantically versatile and highly customizable. We all know how to throw down a basic list: Pancakes Bananas Monkeys Or even throw down some hardcore nested-list action: Pancakes Swedish Blueberry Chocolate Bananas Manzano Plantain Cavendish Monkeys Spider Howler Squirrel This nested list markup will result in a unordered bulleted parent list with numerically ordered nested lists, resulting in something like this in a browser: Pancakes Swedish Blueberry Chocolate Bananas Manzano Plantain Cavendish Monkeys Spider Howler Squirrel Of course, we ...

Series Summary: Obsessive CSS Code Formatting

My favorite series of articles here at Perishable Press, the “Obsessive CSS Code Formatting” articles explore the esoteric minutia involved with producing clean, well-formatted CSS code. From indention and spacing to opening and closing brackets, the obsessive CSS code series explores techniques and tricks used to transform ordinary stylesheets into streamlined masterpieces of inspiring beauty. Creating poetic CSS integrates the high art of employing consistent coding patterns and formatting methods with the practical functionality of proper syntax, logical structure, and concise delivery. These posts are extremely subjective, opening dialogue concerning the ...

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Formats

There are currently three formats for expressing date/time in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). All examples represent the date, "July 04, 2050". The time for all three formats is expressed as "hour:minutes:seconds". Here is the preferred, standard format1 for the Internet. This format is defined by RFC 1123 (updated from RFC 822): # RFC 1123 Standard GMT Format Mon, 04 Jul 2050 07:07:07 GMT The programming language C uses the ANSI standard format1 in its asctime(): # ANSI Standard GMT Format Mon Jul 4 07:07:07 2050 The RFC 850 format2 is now obsolete (RFC 1036) and should not be used: # RFC 850 Standard GMT Format [obsolete] Monday, 04-Jul-50 07:07:07 GMT 1 Weekday abbreviations: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, ...