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The Layout Reservoir - BlueRobot
A note from the editors: While excellent for its time, this article may not reflect modern best practices. One of the questions I get asked the most often regarding my personal site’s design is the following: How do you get the right column’s background color to extend all the way down the page?
Faux Columns
Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II
Sliding Doors of CSS (Part I) introduced a new technique for creating visually stunning interface elements with simple, text-based, semantic markup. In Part II, we’ll push the technique even further. If you haven’t read Part I yet, you should read it now. Here, we’ll cover a new scenario where no tab is highlighted, combine Sliding Doors with a single-image rollover, provide a fix for the clickable region in IE/Win, and suggest an alternate method of targeting tabs. We’ll skip a basic recap of the technique (see Part I for this) in favor of jumping right back in where we left off.
What is it? Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind . You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page .
About Vischeck
This publication has been funded in part with Federal funds from the U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) under contract number ED05CO0039. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
What is this about? The CSS Table Gallery is a showcase of how CSS and data tables can work together to create usable and pretty results. Every once in a while there are emails on discussion lists asking for nicely designed tables and they are prone to go off-topic and ending in a holy war why tables are bad and why you shouldn't use them.
Data Tables and Cascading Style Sheets Gallery