A project I’ve been working on makes frequent use of the ASP.Net GridView. However, as many people know, the GridView has one glaring issue: It wraps your <EmptyDataTemplate> in an HTML table — something that I don’t want, for two reasons:
My empty data template does not consist of tabular data.
My stylesheet has a default style [...]
While using Google GMail today, I noticed that they put a blue highlighting around the text input boxes when they have input focus. It’s a nice touch that makes it just a bit easier for users to identify which field their typing in. (Safari users, of course, get this on all web sites out of [...]
It started innocently enough when I stumbled across a blog post over at PoshCSS, How many CSS Properties can you name in 7 minutes? Curious, I took the test.
64
That took me to another test: How many HTML elements you can name in five minutes? I took that test, too.
57
This in turn took me to the [...]
I like using CSS for layouts and for making sites look pretty — partially because it’s a challenge that is quite satisfying when it works, and partially because I’m not a designer and don’t do well with more robust design elements.
One thing that I often liked using CSS for is for forms. For the past [...]
A fantastic Web page called Styled Checkboxes describes how to use CSS and JavaScript to create graphical checkboxes and radio buttons that depreciate to the standard checkbox and radio button HTML controls when CSS or JavaScript is turned off. It works, too - and is definitely worth checking out as a way to pretty up [...]
