The CSSPG Article Directory

Some historical notes on NS4 deficiencies. An attempt to describe some of the reasons that lead to a less than admirable implementation of CSS in the NS4x line of WWW browsers.

An illustration of the rendering box that lives at the lowest level of the CSS box formatting model, i.e. the character cell box.

A set of examples designed to illustrate some characteristics of the CSS box formatting model.

Describes the basics of how to use the DIV element to create page layouts.

A step by step example of how to suggest a fully scalable page layout based on the use of floating DIV boxes.

The result as described is not suitable for NS4x browsers.

Caveats for setting color with CSS.

This article has a discussion on the possible clashes that may arise from the cascade of author and user stylesheets.

Information on font declarations.

This page contains a set of links to internal and external resources that describes various aspects of how to declare and use fonts in CSS.

A captured post from ciwas where two knowledgable gents lays down the basis for authors that wants to be in control of the users font presentation.

A discussion, originating from a post in ciwas, that describes the concept of relative URLs as they relate to CSS.

A long standing NS4x bug in this area is also described here.

A table of presentational HTML elements and attributes, with linked descriptions on how to replace these with the corresponding CSS equivalents to suggest a stylesheet based presentation instead.

This article describes how to to simulate the traditional HTML based table, in a visual sense, by the use of CSS styled DIV elements.

Chapter 1 of a planned series that describes the use of CSS as a typesetting tool.

This first chapter describes a set of traditional typesetting units, measurment systems, and their relation to CSS.

Striving for Syntactical Perfection.

Comments on why validation is useful and links to many validators and linters that are availabe both on the WWW and for local use.