Using the :target selector When a URL points at a specific piece of a document, it can be difficult to ascertain. Fnd out how you can use some simple CSS to draw attention to the target of a URL and improve the user's experience. Article Eric Meyer Revealing Accesskey Information Accesskeys can make a Web page much more usable, but they're usually so thoroughly hidden that nobody knows they're available, let alone what they are. Contributor Stuart Robinson shows how generated content can be used to make accesskey information visible, and therefore useful as well as usable. Article Stuart Robertson The Search for the Missing Link Sometimes, a Web design can make links look so much like regular text that it's hard to see a difference between the two. Contributor Stuart Robertson shows how to take advantage of CSS hover styles to make the links stand out. Article Stuart Robertson Styling the Amazing Netscape Fish Cam Page A classic reborn! The Amazing Netscape Fish Cam Page has been restructured and restyled for the new millenium, ditching tables for strong and accessible markup. Take a cruise through one aspect of the redesign with master styler Eric Meyer. Article Eric Meyer CSS Support Charts If you're looking for information on browser support for Cascading Style Sheets, then look no further! Netscape DevEdge is proud to republish Eric Meyer's classic CSS1 and CSS2 support charts. Cross Reference Eric A. Meyer Issues Arising From Arbitrary-Element Hover Thanks to long-standing limitations, we're used to thinking of hover styles as applying only to hyperlinks, which has led to some sloppy authoring practices that are now causing problems for some Web sites. This technote explains the source of the problems and how to avoid encountering them. TechNote Eric A. Meyer Netscape DevEdge Redesigns As Standards Showcase Netscape DevEdge now showcases efficient, accessible cross-browser design. A tableless, CSS-driven design lets the visitor choose their preferred theme and incorporates a host of other improvements. Learn more in this look at some key features. Article Eric Meyer, Susie Wyshak Netscape DevEdge Redesign: CSS A look at the CSS that drives the newly redesigned DevEdge, including some of the workarounds necessary for supporting browsers that don't have sufficiently advanced CSS implementations. Article Eric Meyer Correctly Using Titles With External Stylesheets Improper use of the title attribute can cause external stylesheets to be ignored by browsers. Find out how this can happen and how to avoid it in your documents. TechNote Eric A. Meyer Fixing Table Inheritance in Quirks Mode When in quirks mode, Gecko-based browsers will appear to ignore inheritance of font styles into tables from parent elements. Find out why this happens and how to fix it in documents that have to remain in quirks mode. Technote Eric A. Meyer Gecko's "Almost Standards" Mode As of Mozilla 1.0.1 and 1.1 beta, there is a new rendering mode referred to as "almost standards" mode. It contains only one change in behavior from "standards" mode, but for some designers it's an important difference. Find out more in this technote. Technote Eric A. Meyer An Interview With Douglas Bowman of Wired News On October 11, 2002, Wired News launched a major new redesign based on XHTML 1.0 and no tables. Find out how they did it, and what benefits and drawbacks this design entailed, in an in-depth interview with Douglas Bowman of Wired News. Article Eric A. Meyer Fixing Incorrectly Sized List Item Markers An obscure bug in Gecko causes list-item markers to be differently sizeed than the text of the list item, but there is a fix authors can use. Learn how to correctly size list item markers in Gecko 0.9.4, the basis of Netscape 6.2.x and CompuServe 7. TechNote Eric A. Meyer Consistent List Indentation Trying to change the indentation of lists with CSS is trickier than it looks, but only because CSS-conformant browsers took different paths to default indentation. Find out how to get them all in line. Article Eric A. Meyer Styling Abbreviations and Acronyms The HTML elements abbr and acronym are useful accessibility aids, but their styling can come as a surprise to authors. See how you can take control of their presentation without sacrificing the benefits these elements provide. Technote Eric A. Meyer Understanding Underlines Understanding the CSS declaration text-decoration: underline; and how it is supposed to work according to the CSS standard can be tricky. Learn how to properly use text-decorations in CSS compliant browsers as well as other not so compliant browsers. TechNote Eric A. Meyer Giving 'cursor' a Hand Netscape 6 and Mozilla support cursor quite nicely, but that's not true of some other browsers. Happily, there's a fix. Find out how to get a hand from multiple browsers when you use this property. Article Eric A. Meyer background-position Keyword Order Learn about a work around for bug 124192 in Netscape 6.2/Mozilla 0.9.8 where keyword order in the CSS background-position property can affect Netscape 6.2/Mozilla. Technote Eric A. Meyer Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps Are your page designs suddenly plauged by mysterious gaps beneath images in Netscape 6+ and Mozilla? Do these gaps appear and disappear depending on your page's document type? We feel your frustration, but try to make up for it with a thorough explanation of why this happens, and give you ways to work around this surprising effect of Mozilla's CSS implementation. TechNote Eric A. Meyer Case Sensitivity in class and id Names Although CSS is itself case-insensitive, class and ID names are defined to be case-sensitive in HTML 4.01. Find out how this wrinkle can affect your site design and best practices to avoid any problems. TechNote Eric A. Meyer Underscores in class and ID Names The use of the underscore character in CSS can lead to major display problems in multiple browsers. Learn why this is so, and how to keep your sites from being bitten by this problem. TechNote Eric A. Meyer