Tag: CSS
Single image replacement rollovers with Suckerfish dropdowns
I discovered two of my most often used CSS techniques at the same place - Petr Staníček’s Wellstyled.com (Staropramen, Budvar, Pilsner Urquell, great CSS techniques - gotta love the Czechs 
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And those techniques are an image replacement (IR) technique that I later found out was actually called the Gilder Levin method and the use of a single image for creating CSS rollovers without the need for preloading images.
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Absolute positioning practical examples
If you’ve read Absolute Positioning Pitfalls, you’re probably wondering when you can use absolute positioning.
Well, I generally find that I use it not for laying large areas of a layout, areas that contain multiple other elements, but rather for positioning individual elements in relation to other elements. (It certainly can be used for creating large layout areas in certain instances, but I’m not going to cover that here.)
Absolute positioning pitfalls
This article first appeared on CSS Creator Forum and was written in response to the common requests for help from people new to CSS who were encountering problems whilst trying to use absolute positioning to create layouts (seemingly as a result of using Dreamweaver in ‘design view’ mode).
