The Problem: I had a “mysterious” 3px gap below a couple of images and no matter what I did I couldn’t seem to get rid of it.  It was as if the image was 3px taller or had 3px of margin or padding, but zeroing all of these attributes had no effect. The Solution: I [...]

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The Problem: Note: This only applies to XHTML 1.0 Strict Doctypes and Mozilla. I make this type of layout all the time!  Two fixed width columns on either side of a fluid column.  Recently I had to put a list of article teasers into the center (fluid) column.  No problem, I marked up an unordered [...]

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The Problem: I recently built a form for a customer which had a really long legend!  My content area was floated to allow for a right hand sidebar and I noticed that with the addition of the new legend the layout had broken. The issue, it turns out, is that both IE and FF handled [...]

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Demonstration of a CSS issue in IE regarding CSS hover menus and a way to fix it.

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