CSS

[lobelia321]

I just taught myself cascading style sheets. It took 7 minutes.

Hooray!

T'h and I gave each other red roses today. Plus I went to see a counsellor about my decision-making process; she was really helpful. Dragons' Den on TV is strangely moreish. We keep coming up with ideas to pitch.

Comments

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Hooray for the cascading style sheets! I have no idea what that is but it sounds complicated enough so yay! ;)

And more yay for the roses and most yays for the counsellor being actually helpful. If I remember correctly she wasn't all that cheap so she better be. :P

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

God no, this is a different counsellor not that useless one from before. This one is a) better and b) cheaper. I wonder if this is connected??

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know that it's a different one but if I remember correctly she took a fair amount of money, too. But if she's worth it... :)

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

I just taught myself cascading style sheets. It took 7 minutes.
whut, the box model as well???

b.x :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Er. Box model? (This did not figure in my 'Teach yourself xhtml' book wot I borrowed from t'reference library.

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

the bit of css that will take considerably longer than seven minutes to master, *g*.

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/3d-css-box-model
http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/

b.x :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Hm. I must find other pages that do step-by-step exercises because I can't tell if I can master this box thingy when merely reading articles and trying to understand the difference between inline and block (?). I need to try this out.

I knew there was a hitch somewhere. Still! I shall forge on!! You never know when this might come in useful.

For my personal use I, of course, eschew anthing as frivolous as a background image or background colour. *is luddite*

Are you au fait with all of this, then?

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

i have just written a very very brief intro to the css box model for a session i am doing tomorrow, with links and sample files. i can send you it if you want. you have to *do* it though - it's all very well in theory, but making a page with CSS positioning is not always as easy as it sounds.

inline elements are stuff like bold tags, or italic tags, or span classes that are written just to wrap around things within in a sentence. a block-level element is like a paragraph or a div tag - a meaty ol' chunk of stuff that sits on its own. however, you can force an inline element to be block-level element, if you so desire. and as far as positioning and the box model go, only a nutter would want to apply this to an inline element.

i wouldn't say i was "au fait" with it, i don't use it often enough - but i know how it works. the problem is, it isn't implemented the same way on all browsers. and it is pernickety.

b.x :)

[kurdt105.livejournal.com]

how did you manage to learn it so quick? I have the impression I'm trying to get it for ages and it still looks pretty confusing to me. :/

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I got this 'teach yourself xhtml' book out of the library and there it was, in step-by-step exercises. *g*