CASCADING STYLE SHEET REFERENCE

Tutorials:

General

• Alsacreations, creating websites with CSS and (X)HTML : tutorials and lessons - Raphael Goetter.
• An Introduction To CSS - Adrian Senior.
• Bare Bones, No Crap, CSS Text Control Primer - Wendy Peck.
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - Gez Lemon.
• Cascading Style Sheets Made Easy - Taylor Anderson.
• Cascading Style Sheets Workshop - Bruce Reeves.
• Complete Guide to all of CSS - John Allsopp.
• Converting a Page to CSS - J. David Eisenberg.
• CSS 1 Hands on Tutorial - John Allsopp.
• CSS 101 - Makiko Itoh.
• CSS Accessibility .
• CSS Advanced Guide - Patrick Griffiths.
• CSS Beginner's Guide - Patrick Griffiths.
• CSS Based Design - Jeremy Keith.
• CSS Basics - James Craig.
• CSS Class: Index - Jay Gerard.
• CSS how to separate contents and form - Nic Miloslav.
• CSS Intermediate Guide -Patrick Griffiths.
• CSS Is Easy! - Kevin Yank.
• CSS Online - siteexperts.com.
• CSS Quick Tutorial - Liam Quinn.
• CSS Tutorial By tizag.com.
• CSS Tutorial - w3schools.com.
• CSS tutorial: Starting with HTML + CSS - Bert Bos.
• CSS: Where Little Things Mean a Lot - Christopher Duell.
• Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design - This chapter 4 excerpt of Eric's book.
• Get Started With Cascading Style Sheets - Matt Rotter and Charity Kahn.
• Getting Started with Cascading Style Sheets - Miraz Jordan.
• Getting Started with CSS - Rachel Andrew.
• Integrated Web Design: CSS Beyond the Retrofit - Molly Holzschlag.
• Introduction to Cascading Stylesheets - Keith Higgs.
• Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets ( CSS) - Christopher S L Heng.
• Learning CSS - Paul Scrivens.
• Learn CSS, part 1 - Michael Youssef.
  • Learn CSS, part 2: Units of Measurement - Michael Youssef.
  • Learn CSS, part3: Manipulating Colors - Michael Youssef.
• master class - RichInStyle.com.
• Micro Tutorial: Cascading Style Sheets Level One - Miraz Jordan.
• Planning and Structuring Content - Christopher Schmitt. Chapter One of "Designing CSS Web Pages."
• Stylesheets - Ross Shannon.
• Stylesheets guide Webmonkey.
• Style Master CSS Tutorial - westciv.com.
• The Early Bird Catches the CSS: Planning Structural HTML - Virginia DeBolt.
• The Basics of Cascading Style Sheets (Sample Chapter) - Matthew Pizzi and Zak Ruvalcaba.
• Tutorials - RichInStyle.com.
• Writing Efficient CSS - John Gallant and Holly Bergevin.

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Cascade, Inheritance & Specificity

• Cascade.
  • 6.4 The cascade - CSS2 Specification.
  • The Cascade by Brian Wilson.
  • The Cascade by cern.
  • Dueling Declarations: Following the Cascade - Porter Glendinning.
• Inheritance.
  • Cascade and Inheritance - John Allsopp.
  • Cascading & inheritance - Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos.
  • Banking on CSS Inheritance - Dave Sawyer McFarland.
  • CSS Inheritance by Brian Wilson.
  • CSS Inheritance by Dan Cederholm.
  • Inheritance and Cascade - Mike Hall.
  • Inheritance vs Cascade - Tommy Olsson.
  • Inheritance: Friend And Foe - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Learn CSS: Introduction to Inheritance, Specificity, and Cascade - Michael Youssef.
• Specificity.
  • 6.4.3 Calculating a selector's specificity - CSS2 Specification.
  • Link specificity - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Selector Specificity - Gez Lemon.
  • Specificity - Mike Hall.
  • Specificity - Patrick Griffiths.

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Forms

• Accessible, stylish form layout templates - Cameron Adams.
• Applying CSS to forms - Trenton Moss.
• Creating form layouts using CSS - Andy Budd.
• Form Highlighting Rudex - Ryan Brill.
• Fun with forms - customized input elements - Soren Madsen.
• PerFORMance with CSS - MaKo.
• Real World Style Forms - Mark Newhouse.
• Style Web Forms Using CSS - Rachel Andrew.
• Sylish Buttons - M. C. Matti.
• Styling Form Controls - Roger Johansson.
  • Styling Even More Form Controls - Roger Johansson.
• Stylin' Forms - Meryl Evans.
• Styling forms - Lachlan Cannon.
• Styling Form Fieldsets, Legends and Labels - Petr Stanicek.
• Stylish, accessible forms - Andy Clarke.
• Tableless forms - Peter-Paul Koch.
• The float label bug -Simon Willison.

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Lists, (tabs and menus)

• A Navbar Using Lists - Maxine Sherrin.
• Absolute Lists: Alternatives to Divs - Patrick Collins.
• Flowing a List Across Multiple Columns - Paul Novitski.
• Clickable Link Backgrounds - Dan Cederholm.
• Creating Indented Navigation Lists - Michael Meadhra.
• Creating Multicolumn Lists - Michael Meadhra.
• CSS Design: Taming Lists - Mark Newhouse.
• Definition lists - misused or misunderstood? - Russ Weakley.
• Do You Want To Do That With CSS? - Multiple Column Lists - John Gallant, Holly Bergevin.
• How to Style a Definition List with CSS - Stu Nicholls.
• How to Style an Unordered List with CSS - Stu Nicholls.
• Inline Mini Tabs - Alessandro Fulciniti.
  • Float Mini tabs - Alessandro Fulciniti.
• List Display Problems In Explorer For Windows - Part One - John Gallant, Holly Bergevin.
• Listamatic - Russ Weakley.
• Listamatic2 - Russ Weakley.
• More than Just Bullets - Brian Huisman.
• Menus.
  • Menus ( Drop-down navigation accessibility and usability issues).
  • Structure your menus by marking them up as lists - Jim Byrne.
• Multiple Column Lists - Zoe M. Gillenwater.
• Remote Control CSS - Russ Weakley.
  • Remote Control CSS Revisited - Caving in to peer pressure - Russ Weakley.
  • Remote Control CSS Revisited - Russ Weakley.
• Spruced-Up Site Maps - Kim Siever.
• Tabs.
  • A Web building tip... How are inline lists created? - Craig Saila.
  • CSS and Round Corners: Build Accessible Menu Tabs - Trenton Moss.
  • CSS Tabs - Joshua Kaufman.
  • CSS tabs with Submenus - Kalsey.
  • Pure CSS Tabs - Mark Pilgrim.
  • Rounding Tab Corners - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Simple CSS Tabs - Daniel Burka.
  • Styling Nested Lists - Dan Cederholm.
  • Tabtastic - Gavin Kistner.
• Taming Lists - Mark Newhouse.
• Turning a List into a Navigation Bar - Roger Johansson.

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Miscellaneous Tutorials

• Alternate Style Sheets
  • Alternative Style: Working with Alternate Style Sheets - Paul Sowden.
  • Alternate Style Sheets and Media Types - Mike Hall.
  • Invasion of the Body Switchers - Andy Clarke and James Edwards.
    • Invasion of the Body Switchers (IOTBS) The Director's Cut - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke.
  • One page, many designs - Craig Saila.
  • Strategies for CSS Switching - Christopher Schmitt, Mark Trammell, Ethan Marcotte, Todd Dominey and Dunstan Orchard.
  • Style Sheet Switching - Gez Lemon.
  • Turbo-Charged Style-Sheet Switcher - Jim Byrne.
• Liquid layouts the easy way - Russ Weakley.
• Persistent Page Indicator - Stephanie Sullivan .
• Uncollapsing Margins - Eric A. Meyer.
• Styling Buttons - Eric A. Meyer.
• The Search for the Missing Link - Stuart Robertson.

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Media Type

• Defining CSS Media Types - Chuck Musciano.
• Media Types and Their Uses - Stephanie Sullivan.
• Multiple style sheets.
• Aural
  • Aural Cascading Style Sheets.
  • Content Cueing: Filmstrip Flashback - Chuck Musciano.
  • CSS2 Audio Features - Chuck Musciano.
  • Finding Your Voice - Chuck Musciano.
  • Sound of Music: Background Sound with CSS2 - Chuck Musciano.
  • Stylesheets for Speech Synthesisers - css-discuss Wiki.
  • SpShSh - Eric A. Meyer.
• Handheld
  • 7 Steps to Better Handheld Browsing - Simon Collison.
  • Handheld Stylesheets - css-discuss wiki.
  • HTML and CSS for Mobiles - Patrick Griffiths.
  • Mobile Web Design - Cameron Moll.
  • Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your Website to the Small Screen - Elika Etemadand Jorunn D. Newth.
• Print
  • A print alternative without the extra work - Tony Patton.
  • Creating Great Looking Logos for Your Print Stylesheet - juicedthoughts.com.
  • CSS3 Paged Media Module - W3C Working Draft 18 December 2003.
  • Beyond the Browser: Going to Print - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Breaking Pages - Chuck Musciano.
  • Even More CSS2 Printing Power - Chuck Musciano.
  • CSS2, Printing and You - Short guide to creating printer version of a site using CSS2.
  • CSS Media types and printer friendly pages - javascriptkit.
  • Kissing Print Versions of Pages Goodbye - Lachlan Cannon.
  • Paged Media properties for CSS3 - W3C.
  • Print This! - Chuck Musciano.
  • Printing with style - Lachlan Cannon.
  • Printing - John Allsopp.
  • Printing Tables - Jim Wilkinson.
  • Print the Web in Style with CSS2 - Jeffrey Veen.
  • Printing the Web - James Kalbach.
  • Printing Web documents and CSS - Jim Wilkinson.
  • Specifying page breaks for printing using CSS - Website Abstraction.
  • Try CSS media types to build printer-friendly pages - Shawn Morton.
  • Using CSS to Create "Easy Print" Pages - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Using CSS to specify print-versions of your web page - John Miller.

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Positioning & Layout

• A Simple Introduction to 3 Column Layouts - John Oxton.
• Absolutely Fixed Position - Relatively Speaking - Chuck Musciano.
• Absolute Layouts - css-discuss Wiki.
• Absolutely Relative - Joe Gillespie.
• Box Model.
  • 3D CSS Box Model - Jon Hicks.
  • Box model
  • Box lesson - Owen Briggs.
  • Box Model Hack - Tantek Celik.
    • CSS Validator (Changes the Rules) is Broken - Jeffrey Zeldman.
      • CSS validator bug - box model hack - Kynn Bartlett.
  • It's All About Boxes - Simon Jessey.
  • Little Boxes - Owen Briggs. Select a visual layout and view the CSS that created it.
  • Margins and Padding - Douglas Livingstone.
  • Problem & Workaround Set - thenoodleincident.com. A series of CSS Box tutorials going from a simple single box through 3 columns with a full width top box, all with variations.
  • The CSS box model - Al Sparber.
  • The Box Model Problem - Holly Bergevin.
  • Understanding the Box Model - Simon Willison.
• Centering.
  • Centering a Div - Andy Budd.
  • Center with CSS.
  • Centering Block Elements - css-discuss.
  • Centring using Cascading Style Sheets - David Dorward.
  • Centering things - W3C.
  • Creating a centered page layout with CSS - Michael Meadhra.
  • CSS Centering 101 - Dan Cederholm.
  • Do You Want To Do That With CSS? Centering a Wrapper - John Gallant and Holly Bergevin.
  • Vertical Centering with CSS - Joe Gillespie.
• Colored boxes - one method of building full CSS layouts - Russ Weakley.
• CSS An Introduction - Part Six: The Basics of Positioning - Adrian Senior.
• CSS columnar layout tool - CSS Enterprise.
• CSS Positioning - Mike Hall.
• CSS Positioning - Jennifer Kyrnin.
• CSS Positioning Properties At-A-Glance Guide - Nigel Peck.
• DIV Based Layout with CSS - Alejandro Gervasio.
• Effect of z-index value to RP and AP blocks - Aleksandar Vacic.
• Getting equal-height columns in a three-column layout - Michael Meadhra.
• Inline Layout.
  • Inline Formatting Model Summary paper - Eric A. Meyer.
  • line-height - Brian Wilson.
  • Proposals: the inline box model - richinstyle.com
  • vertical-align - Brian Wilson.
• Introduction to CSS Layout - Eric Costello.
• Introduction to CSS Positioning Properties Part 1 - Alejandro Gervasio.
  • Introduction to CSS Positioning Properties Part 2 - Alejandro Gervasio.
• Introduction to positioning with CSS - John Allsopp.
• Flexible Layouts with CSS Positioning - Dug Falby.
• Floats.
  • A Floated Page Layout - Maxine Sherrin.
  • Clearing Floats The Old Fashioned Way - Technique originally developed by Tony Aslett.
  • Clearing Floats: The Float (Nearly) Everything Method - Steve Smith.
  • Contained Floats - Tony Aslett.
  • Containing Floats - Eric A. Meyer.
  • CSS Float Html Tutorial - bigbaer.com.
  • Curing Float Drops and Wraps - Zoe Gillenwater.
  • Easy Float Clearing - John Gallant and Holly Bergevin.
  • Float Layouts - Tommy Olsson.
  • Float Layouts - css-discuss Wiki.
  • Float: The Theory - John Gallant and Holly Bergevin.
  • Float Nightmares - Dave Hyatt.
  • Floats Don't Suck If You Use Them Right - Eric A. Meyer.
    • Floating Points - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Floatutorial - Russ Weakley.
  • How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup - Tony Aslett.
  • Pros and Cons of Absolute vs Float Page Layout - css-discuss Wiki.
  • Raise text relevance by rearranging a three-column layout - Michael Meadhra.
  • Simple Clearing of Floats - Alex Walker.
• Liquid Layouts.
  • CSS Layouts: A tableless, CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout - Craig Saila.
  • Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins - Ryan Brill.
  • Liquid Bleach - Douglas Bowman.
    • Sliding Faux Columns - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Liquid Design (Usability).
  • Liquid layouts - the easy way - Russ Weakley.
  • Resolution Dependent Layout - Cameron Adams.
• Making the Absolute, Relative - Doug Bowman.
• Page layout properties - John Allsopp.
• position:fixed; fixed - Eric Bednarz.
• Position Is Everything - John Gallant aka "Big John".
• Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified - Molly Holzschlag.
• Positioning and the Cascade - Dave Shea .
• Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques - Mark Newhouse.
• Positioning Properties At-A-Glance Guide - Nigel Peck.
• Positioning Web Elements in the Background Using CSS - Eric A. Meyer.
• Positioning with the CSS positioning properties - John Allsopp.
• Rob Lab: CSS Layouts - Robert Nyman.
• The Basics of Positioning - Adrian Senior.
• The layout is dead, long live the layout! - Maxine Sherrin.
• Tables (layout)
  • A Web Designer's Journey - Jeffery Zeldman. The conversion of a site from table layouts to CSS.
  • Abandon tables, simplify design with CSS - Tony Patton.
  • Avoid tables for layout - W3C checkpoint 5.3.
  • An Objective Look at Table Based vs. CSS Based Design - Andy Budd.
    • Tables My Ass - Patrick Griffiths.
  • Centering Tables - Nicholas G. Theodorakis.
  • CSS Gridlock - Eric A. Meyer.
    • To Be Tabled - Eric A. Meyer.
  • CSS Table Design: Overview - Al Sparber.
  • CSS Tableless Web Sites - meryl.net.
  • CSS-Positioning, How to build a web site without tables - CSShark.
  • Designing Without Tables - Julian Carroll.
  • Designing Web Pages without Tables By Sasha Slutsker.
  • Getting your DIVs to behave like TABLEs - Jonathan Snook.
  • Look ma! no tables - Denis Wilford.
  • Making Style and Tables Play Nice - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Making the Jump to Tableless Design - Andy Budd.
  • Nested Tables - David Dorward.
  • Table Layouts, Revisited - Jeffrey Zeldman.
    • Revisiting "Table Layouts, Revisited" - Bill Mason.
  • Tables or CSS: Choosing a layout - Craig Saila.
  • Tables Vs. CSS - A Fight to the Death - Sergio Villarreal.
  • TablesVsDivs: Why we shouldn't use tables - css-discuss WIKI.
  • Throwing Tables Out the Window - Douglas Bowman.
    • Still Throwing Tables - Douglas Bowman.
  • Toss out your Tables! CSS is the scene! - Charlie Morris.
  • The "I can't believe it's not a table!" layout - John Gallant.
  • Transitional Layouts in (X)HTML and CSS: An Interview with Eric A. Meyer - Josh Porter.
  • Turning the Tables - Joe Gillespie.
  • Use style sheets to control layout and presentation - W3C guideline 3.3.
  • W3C Home Page Table-less Layout: HOWTO and FAQ.
  • Why avoiding tables (for layout) is important - Dave Polaschek.
• Templates.
  • Aura: Web Page Exoskin - Leorex.
  • Building a Page Template - A Step by Step Tutorial - Russ Weakley.
  • CSS Depot.
  • CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit - Eric Costello.
  • CSS Layouts - Craig Saila.
  • CSS Page Layout Templates.
  • CSS TEMPLATES - intensivstation.ch.
  • Nemesis Project Layouts.
  • Ruthsarian Layouts - Eric Tribou.
  • Sample CSS Page Layouts - Russ Weakley.
  • Three Column Layouts - css-discuss Wiki.
  • The Layout Reservoir - Rob Chandanais.
  • W3C Core Styles.
• Visual formatting model - W3C.

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Tables (data)

• A CSS Styled Table - Veerle Pieters.
• Bring on the tables - Roger Johansson.
• CSS Tables - Robert Denton.
• Designing Data Part 1: Table structure - Jonathan Snook.
  • Designing Data Part 2: Adding Style - Jonathan Snook.
• HTML, CSS and tables - the beauty of data.
• Styling Tables with CSS - Dan Delaney.
• Tables for Tabular Data.
• Tabular Weirdness - Eric A. Meyer.
• The Mystery Of Why Only Four Properties Apply To Table Columns - Ian Hickson.
• Why CSS styling is for tables too - Michael Meadhra.
• Zebra Tables - David F. Miller.

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Selectors

• Advanced Selectors - Ross Shannon.
• And all that (CSS) Malarkey - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke.
• Attribute.
  • Attribute Selectors - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Attribute Selectors Part 2 - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Attribute Selectors Part 3 - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Attribute Sectors in One Quick Bite - Chuck Musciano.
  • Grammar Question - Eric A. Meyer.
• Child.
  • The Child Selector - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Universal Child Replacement - Eric A. Meyer.
• Classses.
  • A touch of class - Lachlan Cannon.
  • A Touch of Class - Tantek Celik.
  • Are You Too Classy? - Virginia DeBolt.
  • Competent Classing - Eric A. Meyer.
  • CSS: A Tribute to Selectors - Andy (Malarkey) Clarke.
  • CSS: Mix and match Classes - David Eisenberg.
  • How to Join Classes with CSS - Stu Nicholls.
  • Identifying Classy Semantics - Faruk Ates.
  • So, You Want CSS Classes and IDs, Huh? - Joe Burns, Ph.D.
  • The CLASS Attribute - htmlhelp.com.
  • Use Class with Semantics in Mind - Sybren Stuvel.
• Class and id Naming
  • The Benefits of Naming Conventions - Andy Clarke.
  • What's in a Name part 2 - Andy Clarke.
  • Structural Naming - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Standardizing CSS class and id names - Michael Meadhra .
• Contextual Selectors - Chuck Musciano.
• CSS 2 Selector Fundamentals - Porter Glendinning.
• CSS2 Tests - CSS2 selector and declaration tests.
• CSS 3 Selectors - Russell Dyer.
• CSS Selectors: Pattern Matching and Inheritance - Adrian Senior.
• Div Mania - Gez Lemon.
• How do I Select Thee, Let Me Count the Ways - Stephanos Piperoglou.
• ID & CLASS selectors, Pseudoclasses - Stephanos Piperoglou.
• Learn CSS, Selectors, Part 1 - Michael Youssef.
  • Learn CSS, Selectors, Part 2 - Michael Youssef.
  • Learn CSS, Selectors, Part 3 - Michael Youssef.
• Pseudo-Classes.
  • 5.11.3 The dynamic pseudo-classes: :hover, :active, and :focus.
  • A revised method of defining link pseudo-classes - Bill Mason.
  • CSS Link Styles 2004 - Al Sparber.
  • Focus and not - Paul Scrivens.
  • Learn CSS: Pseudo Classes - Michael Youssef.
  • Link specificity - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Mo'Beta Rollovers - Tom Murtaugh.
  • New Pseudo-Classes - Eric A. Meyer.
  • Non-Graphical Rollovers for IE5 - Kurt Nimmo.
  • Pseudo-classes - Brian Wilson.
  • Roll Over, Rollovers - CSS Style - Eric A. Meyer.
  • The Ways to Style Visited Links - Marko Dugonjic.
  • Uberlink CSS Rollovers 2004 - Al Sparber.
  • Using CSS to create rollovers - Simon Coggins.
• Pseudo-Elements.
  • First-line and first-letter - Paul Scrivens.
  • Learn CSS: Pseudo Elements - Michael Youssef.
  • Pseudo elements - Brian Wilson.
• Selectoracle - This tool translates cascading style sheets 2 and 3 selectors.
• Selectors by Eric A. Meyer.
• Selectors by John Allsopp.
• Selectors: Chapter 3 from Cascading Style Sheets Designing for the Web - Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos.
• Selectutorial - CSS selectors - Russ Weakley.
• The Adjacent-Sibling Selector - Eric A. Meyer.
• The Universal Selector - Eric A. Meyer.
• Use Descendant Selectors - Andrew B. King.
• Selectors Test Index (for CSS 3) - W3C.

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Browsers

• Bugs and Hacks
  • Box Model Hack - Tantek Celik.
    • CSS Validator (Changes the Rules) is Broken - Jeffrey Zeldman.
    • CSS validator bug - box model hack - Kynn Bartlett.
  • Browser Bug - css-discuss Wiki.
  • Bug guide - Mozilla 5 & Netscape 6 - richinstyle.
  • Bug Report - Latest reports - Peter-Paul Koch.
  • CSS Bugs and Workarounds - Sue Sims.
  • CSS Bugs in IE5.x Mac - Mac Edition.
  • CSS Bug of the Day - Dan Cederholm.
  • CSS bug table - Rich In Style.
  • css filters (css hacks) - centricle.
  • CSS: To Hack or Not to Hack - Michael Meadhra.
  • Dealing with differences in CSS floats in IE and Netscape - Michael Meadhra.
  • Does IE 6 Center Your Table Content? - James Aylard.
  • Does Netscape 6 Break Your Table Layouts? - James Aylard.
  • Double Vision: Give the Browsers CSS They Can Digest - Chris Heilmann.
  • Fix the wrong problem - AllMyFaqs.com.
  • Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) - bluerobot.
    • Minimizing Flickering CSS Background Images in IE6 - Ryan Carver.
  • Hiding CSS from Nav 4: The Caio Hack - Holly Bergevin.
  • How To Attack An Internet Explorer (Win) Display Bug - John Gallant, Holly Bergevin.
  • Keep CSS Simple - Peter-Paul Koch.