Posts Tagged ‘CSS’
May 8th, 2010
One of the most popular layout styles right now is the Three Column grid, particularly for News-like websites.
Well, one of the main problems coders will run into when creating the layout with CSS is how to make all the columns fit correctly, while retaining the correct margins.
What often happens is the first two columns look great, but then the third margin will screw up because the right-margin, for example, has pushed the column outside of the containing div. The problem ...
Tags: CSS, layout, php, three column, tips, Wordpress
Posted in CSS, Design, Tutorials, Wordpress, php | 2 Comments »
March 8th, 2010
Effectively styling comments can be a difficult task. One tip to make your comments more readable is to alternate their background colors.
By default, Wordpress assigns a class of "even" or "odd" to each comment in the list; the first is odd, the second even, the third odd, etc, etc.
So, to achieve the desired effect, put this in your style.css:
li.even {
list-style: none;
background: #FFFF;
}
li.odd {
list-style: none;
background: #F9F9F9;
}
Add in a few other styling elements, such as borders and clever margins, and you can get some ...
Tags: comments, CSS, Wordpress
Posted in CSS, Tutorials | 2 Comments »
February 26th, 2010
A few weeks ago I ran into a problem while styling some elements in a wordpress plugin. The source of problem was that the plugin author had used inline styles to control the elements. This prevented my user-defined styles from applying. Rather than manually going into the plugin source and removing the styles (any modifications would be over ridden if I ever updated the plugin), I found a solution posted by Natale Jost.
It's really simple.
Your original style looks something like:
div ...
Tags: CSS
Posted in Tutorials, Wordpress | No Comments »
