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Styling ordered list numbers | 456 Berea Street

Vel — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:52:33 +0000

“I’ve always been annoyed by how difficult it is to style the numbers of ordered lists. Quite often a design calls for something other than just a plain figure – a different font, size, colour, background, whatever.

The traditional approach to solving this problem has been to prevent the browser from rendering the numbers of the list items (li elements) and instead hard code the numbers in the text content of the li. That makes it possible to add styling hooks to the number and style away until you’re happy.

Doing it that way works visually, but it isn’t exactly a semantically correct way of using lists. When you view a faked numbered list with CSS disabled you see either a list with the item numbers repeated or a list with bullets and numbers, and that feels backwards to me.”

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CSS Three — Connecting The Dots

Vel — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:19:40 +0000

As a web community, we’ve made a lot of exciting progress in regards to CSS3. We’ve put properties like text-shadow & border-radius to good use while stepping into background-clip and visual effects like transitions and animations. We’ve also spent a great deal of time debating how and when to implement these properties. Just because a property isn’t widely supported by browsers or fully documented at the moment, it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be working with it. In fact, I’d argue the opposite.

Best practices for CSS3 usage need to be hashed out in blog posts, during spare time, and outside of client projects. Coming up with creative and sensible ways to get the most out of CSS3 will require the kind of experimentation wherein developers gladly trade ten failures for a single success. Right now, there are tons of property combinations and uses out there waiting to be discovered. All we have to do is connect the dots. It’s time to get your hands dirty and innovate!

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Adaptable view – how do they do it?

Vel — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:42:47 +0000

Adaptable view is a user interface design pattern which you can use to allow users to manually change visual appearance of content in order to fit their needs. This is usually done by switching styles (in web sites and applications). This way you provide your users with more control over the appearance of content which improves user experience.

Adaptable view can be used to enable users to increase/decrease font size, change background color, darken background for higher contrast, switch between different site versions or to change the layout of the site or any part of it. To learn more about this pattern check out Adaptable View design pattern on UI Patterns. You will find a strange implementation of this pattern where complete header is being hidden – including the logo.

In this tutorial, I will focus on explaining how to manually change the layout and show you two great examples and “how did they do it”.

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Ordered lists and the “START” attribute | maxdesign

Vel — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:11:37 +0000

The Scenario

You have an HTML document that includes ordered lists interspersed with other content. The ordered list items must be numbered continuously throughout the document (not restarting at number 1 each time an ordered list is used).

The simplest way to achieve this is using the “start” attribute:

Problem

The “start” and “type” attributes are not allowed in XHTML1.0 Strict or HTML4.0 Strict documents. These attributes ARE allowed if XHTML1.0 Transitional or HTML4.01 Transitional are used.

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