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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Filed under: HTML and CSS, javascript — Tags: , , , , — Dmitri @ 15:49

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HTML nested ordered lists and numeration

Filed under: HTML and CSS, web-development — Tags: , , , , — Dmitri @ 09:26

Sometimes is needed to-do nested numeration in HTML ordered lists. Here is a simple CSS solution how to achieve this.

CSS:
ol { counter-reset: item; }
ol li { display:block; }
ol li:before { content: counters(item, ".") ". "; counter-increment: item }

HTML:

<ol>
  <li>
    Cities
    <ol>
      <li>
        Tallinn
        <ol>
          <li>Kesklinn</li>
          <li>Lasnamäe</li>
          <li>Mustamäe</li>
        </ol>
      </li>
      <li>
        Narva
        <ol>
          <li>Krenholmi</li>
          <li>Soldino</li>
          <li>Paemuru</li>
        </ol>
      </li>
    </ol>
  </li>
</ol>

Result:

  1. Cities

    1. Tallinn

      1. Kesklinn
      2. Lasnamäe
      3. Mustamäe
    2. Narva

      1. Krenholmi
      2. Soldino
      3. Paemuru

You can do so many nested lists as you want.

Hide outline border on A tag focus

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Filed under: HTML and CSS, jQuery, javascript, web-development — Tags: , , , , — Dmitri @ 09:01

When you focus A tag or submit button sometimes outline border looks ugly on websites. Here are examples:
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This can be easy fixed (for all browsers except Internet Explorer!) by adding 1 line of CSS rule:
a:focus { outline: none; }

IE has non-standard HTML attribute hideFocus=”true” to solve this problem. Of course you don’t like to put this attribute in every <A> tag and submit buttons in your HTML. I have 2 working solutions for all browsers:

CSS expression solution

input, a {
  outline:expression(hideFocus='true');
  outline:none;
}

jQuery solution

$("a, input").each(function() {
  $(this).attr("hideFocus", "true").css("outline", "none");
});

Internet Explorer intepolation mode for images

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Filed under: HTML and CSS, web-development — Tags: , , , , — Dmitri @ 15:09

Every self-respecting web-designer and web-developer know that when scaling images browser makes picture smaller or larger by definite “magic” algorithms. All browsers except IE, do that much-less correctly.

In Internet Explorer you should setup that algorithm manually as CSS property.

img { -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic }

So here is result, screenshot are taken in IE7 with
image scale about 50-60%.

Without algorithm
Bicubic algorithm disabled (default)

Without algorithm
Bicubic algorithm enabled

Read more on MSDN website about this issue.

Enabling interpolation algorithm is useful for any kind of *boxes like Fancy Box, Shadowbox, Light Box, etc…

NB! Enabling algorithms can decrease IE’s performance up 2 times!
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