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November 29th, 2005

Government sites ‘fail disabled’

Government sites ‘fail disabled’ – obivously there’s no ‘New Professionals’ working for the government. Don’t think these two count any more being at their peak in seventies – I’m sure they must have retired by now.

November 16th, 2005

Bubbles and propagation

Dicsovered something useful today. One of those things you might scour the internet for and almost find the answer but not quite. Basically if you want to stop propagation of event through the DOM the events cannot be inline. For example to stop an onclick event bubbling up it must be assigned along the lines of: thing.onclick = dosomething; not like this: For more detail about this subject look here:Event orderDOM ExamplesDocument Object Model Events

November 10th, 2005

Peek-a-boo IE6 Bug

Peek-a-boo IE6 Bug – I always forget about this particular bug but I come across it all the time. It seems to get mentioned a lot on the CSS list This page gives a good idea of how to fix it. I always need to google for it but I always find the same page!

November 10th, 2005

Perfect clearer

Well may be not perfect but nearly there: .clearer{ clear: both; height: 0; font-size: 1px; line-height: 0; } Apply it as: When overlow: hidden doesn’t work or when you are testing IE 6 this does the job. I haven’t tested it extensivley yet but it seems ok so far. Other handy references:Clearing methodsSuper simple clearing floats