CSS Adapters for Membership Controls (working versions)

On September 6, the guys at Microsoft released the second beta version of their CSS Friendly ASP.Net 2.0 Control Adapters. In addition to bug fixes were CSS implementations of the membership controls - specifically, the Login, CreateUserWizard, PasswordRecovery, LoginStatus, and ChangePassword controls.
Unfortunately for the membership controls, it didn’t really work. This bothered me, because I’ve [...]

A wonderfully simple, wonderfully useful IE CSS hack

For the past few years, I’ve been doing a lot of web development. Part of my design mantra (at least from a code perspective) is table-less design using CSS that works in as many browsers as humanly possible.
Since Firefox’s support for CSS standards is superior to that of IE, I generally code everything so it [...]

Removing the TABLE from the CreateUserWizard control

About two months ago, I wrote a post about removing the TABLE from ASP.Net 2.0’s Login control. The below code will let you do the same from the CreateUserWizard control. One important caveat: for this to work (in my limited testing), you must provide a custom template for the ContentTemplate and CustomNavigationTemplate of the CreateUserWizardStep, [...]

Removing tables in Microsoft’s ASP.Net 2.0 Controls

Microsoft has been touting ASP.Net 2.0 as taking great strides towards XHTML compatibility and meeting common accessibility guidelines. However, some controls still add table tags around them, despite your best efforts to avoid using tables. The new Login control is one of those.
For me, the table wrapper around the Login control was causing rendering problems. [...]

New web developer magazine, "Treehouse"

The folks from Particletree have released the first issue of Treehouse, a magazine dedicated to Web development. Get the first issue - it’s a free PDF download - and considering the reputation of those at Particletree, it’s worth the cost.

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