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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
