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Unobtrusive JavaScript

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:28:35 +0000

I came across an article on unobtrusive JavaScript yesterday. It’s not the same as ‘accessible JavaScript’, although it can make your JavaScript more accessible. It’s more along the CSS-type lines of separating structure from content and making HTML pages even more streamlined:

http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/

CSS – equal height columns

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:05:06 +0000

Whilst teaching recently, someone asked about columns with equal heights. Whilst familiar with what seems to be the ‘default’ method, i.e. add a background image, I realised that this won’t deal with all necessary situations.

If you absolutely have to add three columns with different background colours, try this ingenious method:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlayouts/

The only ‘problem’ that I can see is that it only deals with background colours, rather than images. The colours for the columns are set by setting the background colours of the container’s border, which rules out images.

If you need to add background images to more than one column, then try this:

http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/equalheight

My first post

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:20:20 +0000

This is my first post on the cielo.net blog.

I’ll be posting articles on CSS, JavaScript and other web-related topics.