Is it possible to put CSS @media rules inline?

@media at-rules and media queries cannot exist in inline style attributes as they can only contain property: value declarations. As the spec puts it: The value of the style attribute must match the syntax of the contents of a CSS declaration block The only way to apply styles to one specific element only in certain … Read more

I’m getting favicon.ico error

I have had this error for some time as well. It might be some kind of netbeans bug that has to do with netbeans connector. I can’t find any mention of favicon.ico in my code or in the project settings. I was able to fix it by putting the following line in the head section … Read more

button vs. input type=”button” /. Which to use?

Here’s a page describing the differences (basically you can put html into a <button></button>) And another page describing why people avoid <button></button> (Hint: IE6) Another IE problem when using <button />: And while we’re talking about IE, it’s got a couple of bugs related to the width of buttons. It’ll mysteriously add extra padding when you’re trying to add styles, meaning … Read more

Position absolute but relative to parent

This works because position: absolute means something like “use top, right, bottom, left to position yourself in relation to the nearest ancestor who has position: absolute or position: relative.” So we make #father have position: relative, and the children have position: absolute, then use top and bottom to position the children.

Absolute position is not working

Elements with absolute positioning are positioned from their offsetParent, the nearest ancestor that is also positioned. In your code, none of the ancestors are “positioned” elements, so the div is offset from body element, which is the offsetParent. The solution is to apply position:relative to the parent div, which forces it to become a positioned … Read more