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text-overflow: ellipsis for firefox

2008-06-30 modified: 2008-07-01

Firefox still does not implement the proposed CSS3 text-overflow property. It does however provi... [more]

Google maps zooming investigated

2008-03-17

The google maps API provides two methods to zoom your map through script, namely, zoomIn and zoomOut... [more]

CSS (and a little JS) Toolbar

2008-02-03 modified: 2008-02-10

Ideally, any HTML form can be easily styled like a toolbar, consider the following HTML snippet (tri... [more]

Javascript design pattern

2007-10-14

This is more like a personal note, but I put it online anyway. It is not polished and shaped (no int... [more]

css syntax in graph

2007-09-28 modified: 2007-10-10

Here are some drawings of what the CSS syntax is about. In words, it can be found here for CSS 2.1 a... [more]

web forms 2 to go

2007-09-16 modified: 2007-10-06

Web Forms 2.0 is a html form extension proposal, which includes several new input types. I have buil... [more]

[HTML] useful element constructions

2004-11-01 modified: 2006-04-22

After reading Mozilla's Markup Reference, it occurred to me a list of common HTML constructions mi... [more]

An image says more

2006-03-11

One image says more than a thousand words. So true, but what about for instance the commenting syste... [more]

tags, elements, attributes, properties etc

2006-02-20

For once and for all: Element An element is an HTML (or XML) building block, they are the whole ... [more]

Various XML related tips and tricks

2006-02-02

I assume you have basic knowledge of what X(HT)ML is about, like knowing about how to properly serve... [more]

[CSS] Frequently Asked Questions

2005-08-10 modified: 2005-08-22

There are a lot of CSS related questions that keep coming back everywhere. I will list a lot of them... [more]

[HTML] general structure

2005-04-25 modified: 2005-08-05

In this article I will address the general structure of HTML, I will make a seperation in three type... [more]

[CSS] inline boxes with defined width

2004-11-14 modified: 2005-07-29

Many people think inline elements, like <span> can be given a defined width and height. In fact in IE ... [more]

About this site

2004-10-27 modified: 2005-07-26

Although there's a lot that still needs to be done, I've put my new site online. Mostly because I ... [more]

[HTML] what div is about

2005-03-15 modified: 2005-07-19

Do you know what div is invented for? When I ask people, they generally come up with the definition ... [more]

[HTML] the table element

2005-07-06

In this article I discuss the use of the table element. This element is well known by almost every d... [more]

[HTML / XHTML] common problems

2005-03-10 modified: 2005-06-24

When making the step to XHTML, authors might encounter various difficulties, which are all the resul... [more]

[HTML] Reinventing the wheel (or just rediscovering)

2005-03-19 modified: 2005-06-23

Because HTML elements alone are not enough to discribe your data best, the class attribute is there.... [more]

[HTML] image descriptions: dl or label?

2004-12-02 modified: 2005-05-21

In addition to: [HTML] usefull element constructions: Sometimes when you want to add a descriptio... [more]

[HTML] coding clean forms

2004-10-31 modified: 2005-05-21

I need to rewrite this a bit, due to various updates it has become very unclear and outdated. I u... [more]

[HTML] the map element

2005-04-10 modified: 2005-04-15

For navigation, people often use an ol or ul element, wrapped in something like <div id="navigation"> ... [more]

[HTML] do you smurf what I smurf?

2005-01-11 modified: 2005-03-30

Tables are bad they say, use div's and CSS. So what is the result? Documents like this: (I've omit... [more]

[HTML] Release h1

2005-01-15 modified: 2005-03-18

Now people are more and more using <h1> to <h6> to identify headings (instead of some <div id="heading"> c... [more]

Made my own Photoshop Shortcut Keypad

2004-10-29 modified: 2005-02-13

Looking for a list of available shortcut key combinations in photoshop? This is not the place, see ... [more]

Authoring MathML

2005-02-06 modified: 2005-02-10

The formula's on this site are only shown in MathML supporting browsers, which are Mozilla, Firefox ... [more]

[HTML] test suite

2005-02-10

I've put up a rudimentairy test suite for (X)HTML documents. Select a mime type to be served and typ... [more]

[SGML] the NET shorttag

2005-01-27

Now we're all validating our documents, please tell me why this document (view source) validates and... [more]

[HTML & CSS] about class, id and style

2004-11-19 modified: 2004-12-27

A common misconception is that the class attribute is meant to "define a style" for a group of ele... [more]

Fijne kerstdagen en een voorspoedig 2005!

2004-12-25

Beste vrienden, bij deze wil ik jullie bedanken voor een fantastisch jaar, waar ieder van jullie o... [more]

What do I miss when browsing with Internet Explorer?

2004-12-24

You might wonder what all the fuzz about (bad) Internet Explorer and (holy) Firefox is about. Well... [more]

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