Category Archives: css

CSS default position value

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Stoimen

position:absolute? Recently I was working on a problem where some DOM elements inherited the absolute position from their ancestors. Well this is pretty rare, but however it happens from time to time. If you’re wandering, as I was, how to … Continue reading →

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What if your site doesn’t use all of the CSS selectors?

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Stoimen

Why my site doesn’t use all of the CSS however? Well someone can ask how you can have CSS that contains selectors that aren’t used on the site. There are two reasons to happen and most of the cases both … Continue reading →

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cssText and how it can be very very useful

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Stoimen

We all know, or at least all of us reading every new coming news on the web development sky, that making your browser reflow and repaint is expensive. Actually it is quite expensive. What I’m about to say comes under … Continue reading →

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jQuery CSS functions. Part 2 – width() and height()

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Stoimen

$.width() and $.height() Related to the previous several posts jQuery comes with two functions that help you dynamically get the width and height of an element. Have you ever asked about the width of an element in pixels which is … Continue reading →

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jQuery CSS functions. Part 1 – offset()

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Stoimen

What are jQuery CSS functions? Well these are function which help you modify different CSS properties with JavaScript. You know you can do that in “pure” evangelistic JS, but normally every library comes with its own bunch of functions that … Continue reading →

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