External Stylesheets

Posted by CSSFloat in Tips on 10. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment

External style sheets are great for applying the same styles to multiple pages on a website. Unlike internal styles, which need to be added to every single page, external style sheets can be imported directly from a .css file. The .css file must be linked from within the <head> section of your web code.
Here’s the [...]

CSS Style Tags

Posted by CSSFloat in Tips on 10. Jan, 2010 | 0 Comments

Style tags contain on-page CSS. Style tags can be placed anywhere within a document but are usually found within the <head> section.
#onpage-example {color: #90C; font: 1.2em “Palatino Linotype”, “Book Antiqua”, Palatino, serif;}
For example, this sentence was styled by the CSS in style tags directly above in the HTML code.
Don’t believe me? You’ll have to right [...]

CSS – Class Verus ID

Posted by CSSFloat in Tips on 10. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment

When coding CSS, the choice between using class or id can be confusing to inexperienced web developers. The main reason for this is because most web browsers simply skip over these errors and process class and id styles exactly the same.
The general rule…
If you intend to use the CSS style more than once on a [...]

CSS Float Right

Posted by CSSFloat in Examples on 10. Jan, 2010 | 0 Comments

Floating an element right is exactly like floating left, except the code is
{float: right;} ie. #floatrightexample {float: right;}
This time we’re going to be floating an image that already has its width defined. Hence, there’s no need to include the width in the CSS code.

Also, did you notice the change in the CSS code?
We used a [...]

CSS Float Left Example

Posted by CSSFloat in Examples on 10. Jan, 2010 | 0 Comments

Here’s an example of using CSS Float to float an item left.
The square below with a blue border is a div tag aptly named “floatleftexample”.
.floatleftexample {float: left; width: 320px; border: 1px solid #00f; margin: 10px;}

In order for the blue square to float left of this text, the floatleftexample div must be above this paragraph in [...]