Archive for the ‘HTML’ Category

Simple HTML5

Posted: April 27, 2011 in HTML
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I keep going back to look and see what is actually required as a minimum for HTML5 markup, so I thought I’d blog it for easy reference. The non-normative minimum markup for HTML5 is: Notes: The DOCTYPE is required for legacy reasons. Including the DOCTYPE in a document ensures that the browser makes a best-effort [...]

Understanding Hexadecimal Color Values

Posted: March 24, 2011 in HTML

I’ve known about hexadecimal color values for HTML probably since 1994, back in Netscape Navigator Beta days. I’ve always known that they represent a group of Red-Blue-Green values, that when modified you get a new color, however slight or dramatic. Each position can have a value of 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e or f. But I never really understood why such [...]

Rarely have I used the <pre> tag or the nowrap attribute in my code. However it is there, and I haven’t even considered if there was a CSS alternative. Today I ran into the CSS property for these that I’ve never seen before; the white-space property. Example: The possible values are: normal nowrap – same [...]

Google CDN Tips

Posted: February 4, 2010 in HTML, JavaScript

Thanks to BrightMix for hosting the jQuery meetup presented by Jonathan Sharp last night in Omaha. Jonathan presented on the new features of jQuery 1.4 last night along other Q&A topics. Lately I’ve been experimenting with the Google CDN for delivering jQuery and jQuery UI. The reasons behind using the CDN is faster library loads, cross-internet [...]

CSS Frameworks

Posted: February 11, 2009 in HTML

Lately I have been experimenting with the YUI Library CSS Tools and Blueprint. Both are an open source CSS framework, which as Blueprint so gracefully puts it “gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid and sensible typography…”. After experimenting with both, I have continued to lean towards [...]

HTML Tag:

Posted: January 20, 2009 in HTML

There’s an interesting HTML tag that I just learned about: Uses: OR The label tag associated the text inside to the input field. There are two advantage to this. For a disabled user, the screen reader can read to the visitor what this field is asking for. The standard user can click on the label [...]