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Box Model - no, not another rant

Am i going to write about the box model problem in IE? No, others have done that already (and far better then i could ever do) but i thought you might like to see it in action with an interactive version.

Interactive version?? Yep, today i stumbled upon Doug Bowman’s interactive version.

It gives you the ability to look at the model from different perspectives… real refreshing stuff.

Ever seen this strange CSS bug in Opera?

I was working on a site when i encountered a strange phenomena.

Some paragraphs appeared blue underlined when loading the page and when i scrolled the page up and down, the underlining disappeared!

It was the first time i ever encountered this strange effect in Opera. Now i’m used to strange things in IE (as most of you lol) but in Opera…

I couldn’t make any sense of it: what triggered the effect, how to solve it?

So i did a bit of asking around and some kind soul on the CSS discuss list pointed me to the Opera forum where this bug was discussed in 2002! As it seems, text-align: justify triggers it.

Solution: real simple in fact. Just add this piece:
” * { text-align: left !important } ” without the “” and it’s solved.

In my case however i still keep being puzzled because i didn’t use text-align: justify but what the heck… problem solved. Maybe i’ll find out if something else triggers it also but for now i’m a happy camper !

Finally!!

Finally, after a long time of every day work shit, i managed to make a new template, called Metallica.

It’s up for grabbs.

A new download counter [2]

I haven’t been posting in a while here but that doesn’t mean i’ve been hanging around like a lazy bum ;-)

I recently had some problems with my PHP script i use for my templates. Often the links to the files disappeared, resulting in peeps not being able to download them and my correcting the bloody thing again.

So hight time i did some tweaking and low and behold: a brand new full proof system. New script, new styling…

Tnx to my friend Gordon for helping me setting it up !!!

Easy CSS !!!

Like most of you i have been reading the imperative books on CSS, the blogs, joined lists… but i still had to find a source where you can find CSS explained in plain english. You know: not with all that technical mumbo jumbo but straight to the point, accurate, easy to read and understand.

Low and behold: i did find it.

Tommy Olsson has a blog called Autistic Cuckoo. Autistic Cuckoo? Yeah, i can here you laugh already but let me assure you, Tommy is far from Cuckoo.

He knows what he’s talking about and does it in a real simple manner. His article on positioning and floats is a jewel!

You can find his great stuff in the section called “Web” on his blog.