Try being explicit about all the border properties. For example: See Border shorthand property. Although the other bits are optional some browsers don’t set the width or colour to a default you’d expect. In your case I’d bet that it’s the width that’s zero unless specified.
These are comments, that are not visible to the user but only when you view the actual HTML. They are also useful in commenting out a block of code when you’re doing testing, that way you can prevent from having to cut and paste the code else where, and then copy them back. Additionally, some … Read more
The correct way to do this in modern browsers is to use Flexbox. See this answer for details. See below for some older ways that work in older browsers. Vertical Centering in CSShttp://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html Article summary: For a CSS 2 browser, one can use display:table/display:table-cell to center content. A sample is also available at JSFiddle: Expand snippet … Read more
In practice, </br> does not exist. Just <br> or <br />. However, the difference is the position, and is universal for all XML tags. <TAG_NAME> indicates the beginning of a tag, and </TAG_NAME> indicates the end of a tag. When a tag is used with nothing between it, then a self-closing, or null tag can be used, which combines the beginning and end. It … Read more
Simply <br> is sufficient. The other forms are there for compatibility with XHTML; to make it possible to write the same code as XHTML, and have it also work as HTML. Some systems that generate HTML may be based on XML generators, and thus do not have the ability to output just a bare <br> tag; if you’re using … Read more
This might answer your question. Basically it is HTML encoding for a few predefined characters. Characters like > and & are HTML Entities specifically, they are Named HTML Entities
Is there a way to resize (scale down) images proportionally using ONLY CSS? I’m doing the JavaScript way, but just trying to see if this is possible with CSS.
HTML The plain HTML way is to put it in a <form> wherein you specify the desired target URL in the action attribute. If necessary, set CSS display: inline; on the form to keep it in the flow with the surrounding text. Instead of <input type=”submit”> in above example, you can also use <button type=”submit”>. The only difference is that the <button> element allows children. You’d … Read more
If the background doesn’t have to repeat, you can use the sprite technique (sliding-doors) where you put all the images with differing opacity into one (next to each other) and then just shift them around with background-position. Or you could declare the same partially transparent background image more than once, if your target browser supports multiple backgrounds (Firefox … Read more