CSS Tips

To highlight form fields use the input class input:focus { background-color: yellow; } Most browsers will support this including NN 6+, Firefox, Safari and Opera. If some don’t then the browser will simply ignore it.

Designing a two column form without tables. You may want to have a form with two columns without using a table First of all mark out the areas into two sections. Log in Password Then set the display of the

This can be accomplished using the tag. Contact Info Extra Details You can also add CSS rules to the fieldset and legend items such as margin-bottom, borders, fonts and padding.

If you want to change the colour of the field the user has the cursor in, then use the following CSS: Input:focus, textarea:focus { background: #eee }

You can easily simulate a popup window using DHTML together with div and span tags. Start off by hiding the div area then use javascript to unhide the div tag when required. rollover here This is only visible if your

Place the following at the top of your html page: Skip to content This way a screen reader will jump reading all your navigation and will just skip this and read your main content. It’s also important to hide this

Place the image element inside a div element with the class attribute set to imgholder Set the alignment to the left so that text wraps around the image. Now set the background image of the drop shadow in two background

Stopping people stealing your images Use a single pixel transparent GIF as a place marker then wrap a div element around the img tag. alt=””> Then bring the image into the web page by using the background-property and making sure

Changing the scrollbar properties are not part of the W3C standard, but some browsers support them. Use the following CSS settings: Scrollbar-face-color Scrollbar-shadow-color Scrollbar-highlight-color Scrollbar-3dlight-color Scrollbar-darkshadow-color Scrollbar-track-color Scrollbar-arrow-color You can use these settings for the main window scrollbar, textareas, framesets,

Use the border property to create a visual divider. li { border-top: 1px solid black; padding: .3em 0; } Then apply a border to the bottom of the ul element to create the bottom border ul { margin-left: 40px; padding-left: