Entries Tagged as CSS
For the Love of Chocolate, Style Your Optgroup!
Posted by Paul Marcotte | Tags: ColdFusion , CSS
If you haven't tried out the cfUniForm tag library by Matt Quackenbush, I highly recommend it. Version 2.3 includes some nice updates proposed by Bob Silverberg, including the addition of optgroup to select lists. I don't like the default italic style for an optgroup label, so when I use it, I add a simple css selector to make them a little more visually appealing. For example:optgroup {
font-weight: bold;
font-style:normal;
}
Don't let default optgroup styles drag you down. Make them great with a little CSS.
Blending Blueprint CSS and jQuery for Layout and Behaviour
Posted by Paul Marcotte | Tags: CSS , jQuery
I've always written my own CSS from scratch. Over time, I've learned the ins and outs of browser incompatibilities, but at a cost (a fraction of my sanity). For a new project I'm playing with, I decided to try out Blueprint CSS and jQuery. Blueprint took a bit of time to embrace, but when it clicked, I was able to get productive and start visualizing my layout in the language of Blueprint. Problem was, where I previously used very descriptive identifiers to provide a more semantic organization of my layout div elements, I was suddenly chaining multiple classes to achieve the same layout.