[ot]Hey nice site! Big improvement, to be sure…about the Rubik’s Cube thing…are you the 2nd guy (LTR)? Also, you should add a slight transparent-to-black gradient to fix up the edge of your bg image. (Or don’t - not my site)
About the article…did Paul really “invent” that? Ten bucks says he didn’t. Let’s all worship at his altar if he did.[/ot]
He’s widely credited for first pointing out its usefulness in this context. (The first reference to using overflow for clearing seems to be here.)[/ot]
Wow. So this was only invented maybe 6 months ago? What did people do before that? It’s amazing that it hadn’t been discovered in 10 years…did someone at the W3C confirm that this was how it’s supposed to be done?
Wait…it was invented years and years ago, but people used other methods?
Anyways, I have another question. Not really CSS, but I didn’t want to start a new thread (to be honest, I try to limit my threads to a max of 1 per day).
People still use other methods. Both because of it not being known AND / OR they don’t want to use it.
But I was saying that people used other methods before overflow was konwn about.
Anyways, I have another question. Not really CSS, but I didn’t want to start a new thread (to be honest, I try to limit my threads to a max of 1 per day).
I was never taught anything about forms, so this is my very first try. I looked at a bit of the Sitepoint Reference and Fancy Form Design (book).
I’m sure there are problems. Mind finding them (and explaining, if you please)?
~TehYoyo
Note: Please move this thread if you feel the need to. Sorry.
The label needs a for=“” attribute eto go with the <input> it’s matching with. You shouldn’t need those <br>'s but it’s not a dealbreaker. If you have an input with ID=“city” the label needs to be <label for=“city”>
The article I linked to was from 2005—when the overflow method was first aired.
Make sure to include the for=“” attributes on the labels that Ryan mentioned. Breaks are OK to use if you want to on something like this. You have more control with CSS, but it makes some sense to use breaks, as they work even if CSS is off.
You are better off using a <textarea> element for the message field. Text inputs are really for small amounts of text, like a name etc. If you stick with what you have, you can’t re-use this code on the message input:
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking - I’ve used textareas before, but I couldn’t find any examples of it being properly used. I want my textarea to be multiple rows and columns. I presume that the “rows” and “cols” attributes haven’t been deprecated?
Combination of float/clear. But as Ralph said <br>'s aren’t terrible…they do at least work with CSS off. It may not be worth the trouble to you to do it.
No, they are fine. Put them in, for sure, but in this case, give your textarea a width via CSS, as that’s a preferable way to size it visually, IMHO. I guess I should say the same for the text inputs.
