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I have an absolutely positioned div containing several children, one of which is a relatively positioned div . When I use a percentage-based width on the child div , it collapses to 0 width on IE7, but not on Firefox or Safari. If I use pixel width, it works. If the parent is relatively positio…

What is a good method for testing website layout designs across multiple browsers and operating systems?

Suppose I have the following CSS rule in my HTML. body { font-family:Calibri,Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,sans-serif; } How can I detect which one of the defined fonts was used in the user's browser? Edit for people wondering why I want to do this: The font I am detecting contains glyphs not av…

give a relatively simple css: <div style="width:150px;"> 12333-2333-233-23339392-332332323 </div> How do I make it so that the string stays constrained to the width of 150, and simply wraps to a newline on the hyphen?

I'm looking for a good editor for both HTML and CSS. I currently use the Firebug Firefox extension, and this is a great tool, but I'm looking for something I can use without necessarily firing up a browser. Ideally it would have a live preview of what I'm coding. Edit: As a student, I have acce…

Are there any favorite online references or good introductory and intermediate/advanced books on this topic that you'd recommend? The backstory is that I'm working on a web development project that is "re-skinning" our existing web site to make it more usable and visually appealing given curren…

Let's aggregate a list of free quality web site design templates. There are a million of these sites out there, but most are repetitive and boring. I'll start with freeCSStemplates.org I also think other sites should follow some sort of standards, for example here are freeCSStemplates standa…

CSS and Javascript files don't change very often, so I want them to be cached by the web browser. But I also want the web browser to see changes made to these files without requiring the user to clear their browser cache. Also want a solution that works well with version control system such as Sub…

How can I set the CSS background color of an HTML element via JavaScript?

I'm using ClodFusion(sic) to populate a template that includes HTML lists (<ul>'s). Most of these aren't that long, but a few have ridiculously long lengths and could really stand to be in 2-3 columns. Is there an HTML, ColdFusion or perhaps JavaScript (I have jQuery available) way to do…

I am a CSS newbie trying to layout a table-like page with two columns. I want the rightmost column to dock to the right of the page, and this column should have a distinct background color. The content in the right side is almost always going to be smaller than that on the left. I would like the d…

I'm working on a website which will switch to a new style on a set date. The site's built in semantic HTML and CSS, so the change should just require a CSS reference change. I'm working with a designer who will need to be able to see how it's looking, as well as a client who will need to be able t…

It seems like every time I try to create a pure CSS layout it takes me much longer than if I'd use a table or two. Getting three columns to be of equal lengths with different amount of data in them seems to require particular fancy hacks, especially when dealing with cross-browser issues. So,…

I've got a website that I've just uploaded onto the interwebs, and it's displaying differently using Firefox 3.0.1 on Ubuntu and WinXP. Two things I've noticed on Ubuntu: The favicon is missing The background color isn't displaying (it's set in the stylesheet) What have I d…

What is the best way to create rounded corners using CSS?