The size attribute for input fields

An succinct overview of the size attribute of input fields which also includes a nice CSS tip. [...]

the distinction between the abbr element and the abbr attribute

Russ Weakley explains the difference between the abbr attribute and the abbr element: <acronym> and <abbr> and worms. [...]

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andy clarke

discusses attribute selectors. [...]

Hide email address with CSS?

Here's an interesting idea... use the id attribute of the p tag and assign a style to it to hide an email address: explanation at phoenity [...]

Opera CSS and Hand-Held Devices

Let Opera know that a handheld style sheet is present by specifying "handheld" in the media attribute for the link or style tag, or use an @media or [...]

IBM Contributes DHTML Accessibility Code to Mozilla

"In Mozilla Firefox 1.5, the behaviour of the tabindex HTML attribute will be altered, allowing authors to create Web applications that are faster t [...]

A face to a URL

What's just as important as the font face used on a website?If you're like me, when you hear a new band on the radio you want to know what they look [...]

JavaScript Triggers

Brilliant article by Peter-Paul Koch detailing how to use id and class attributes in your XHTML to trigger Javascript functions. Additionally, he s [...]

Alt and title attributes

Interesting discussion at the Web Standards Group email list about the relative merits of using alt and title attributes in your HTML. [...]

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PHP + CSS Dynamic Text Replacement

In the wake of recent web font news here's a technique for generating text replacement dynamically with CSS and PHP... and no JavaScript. In theory it [...]

ready.mobi

Check how well your site would stand up when viewed on a mobile device using ready.mobi. This is a pretty cool site with simulators as well as lots of [...]

HTML5 elements and attributes

Here's a list of the elements and attributes planned for HTML5 (otherwise known as Web Applications 1.0). [...]

Spider simulator

Pretty handy wee program for checking some basic information about your web page, like total size (including images) to download, if you have meta i [...]