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Archive for May, 2008
Equal Column Height Using JavaScript
By Louis Lazaris on May 29th, 2008
Categories: Graphic Design & Layout, Markup & Style, Scripting | 1 Comment >
I’m currently working on a project that requires that I use either some very tricky CSS or else JavaScript to make a left column div expand automatically to fit its parent container. The parent container and left hand nav appear on multiple pages, and there is different content, including that which is dynamically generated, so I cannot just add a height to both elements in the CSS.
Do You Comment Your DIVs?
By Louis Lazaris on May 25th, 2008
Categories: Markup & Style, Web Standards & Best Practices | 1 Comment >
Since I started working for my current employer, I’ve built a number of sites from scratch using CSS layouts. I’ve also had to work on older web sites built using older HTML methods. The good thing is, many of these sites have CSS-based layouts. The annoying part is that some of them suffer from divitis (i.e. too many nested <div> tags, in the same style as table layouts). In my view, if developers are going to use this style of layout, then they might as well use tables.
