A few weeks ago Andrei raised an interesting question on one of my older posts. The post shows how to create a navigation bar. Andrei noticed the submenu was positioned absolutely, but none of its ancestor elements had positioning applied. Why then did the submenu display directly below its parent link in the menu?
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Category: CSS
How To Work With Transparent Colors And Images In CSS
Being able to control the transparency of design elements is something we’ve been able to do with css for a few years. However, I often see questions from people, particularly in regards to the opacity property and how child elements inherit opacity from parent elements, which typically isn’t desired.
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How To Add Realism With CSS Box Shadow And Text Shadow
You can add visual interest and a sense of realism to a design is by adding depth and one of the popular ways you can add depth is by incorporating the impression of a light source through shadows.
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Classes Vs. IDs And Descendent Selectors [Audio]
Umm…ahh…you know…well I survived my first audio post well enough to put together a second one, though I did have a acase of the…umms…this time around. In between the…ahhs…I talk about a discussion I caught a couple of weeks ago on the role of ids and descendent selectors in css.
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How To Work With Linear, Radial, And Repeating CSS Gradients
Any time you can replace a bitmapped image with code you should. The code is going to weigh less and be more maintainable. That’s not to say we shouldn’t use bitmapped images, but where appropriate go with the code instead.
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