More CSS - A new article and a great tool

Published in CSS on Friday, May 7th, 2004

A wrap up of some recently written and noted CSS articles and tools.

How To Attack An Internet Explorer (Win) Display Bug

John Gallant and Holly Bergevin are up to their bug killing ways, this time helping us mere mortals come to grips with things such as the Peekaboo Bug and the Escaping Floats Bug, and how can be used to help us with some of IE's enigmatic problems. Be sure and check it out!

Mozilla DOM inspector

Over at Clagnut, Richard Rutter talks about Mozilla's DOM inspector:

Amongst other things, it allows you to see which CSS rules are affecting any given element in order of cascade priority.

Hello! How useful is that? I know that will be pretty darn useful for managing the cascade in the CSS files of larger websites. Especially for sites that you haven't worked on in a while.

And, while we're talking about the cascade and Big John and Holly, be sure and have a look at Understanding the Cascade, also a good read (if you're into css, of course!).

Comments and Feedback

Interesting, you\'re living in July already !? How does the future looks like ?

Hint, look at the time stamp on your article.

(after previewing) look at the first line of my comment, something wrong after the you

... and June is always such a good month, I\'m sad that I missed it!

A slip up on the date. My \'admin\' UI consists of phpMyAdmin right now. That date slip up should be sorted when I insert it automagically. The comment things, however, will be dealt with today. Thanks Philippe!

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