Working with z-index can be a little counter-intuitive at times.
With my redesign I wanted to place a “polaroid” style photo of myself behind the “about” section but in front of the main content and header. If I hadn’t used such large text and a coloured background perhaps I wouldn’t even have noticed what was happening.
By a roundabout route I happened on a post describing an Internet Explorer 6 bug (of course) in applying the :first-letter pseudo-element in CSS.
In IE6 there must be a blank between the selector and the declaration block.
/* does not work */
p:first-letter{property: value}
/* works */
p:first-letter {property: value}
Additionally, there appears to be a problem with IE6 (and [...]
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In November 2006 I published details on my CSS framework and even talked about it at Refresh Cambridge. To recap, it was the solution to the problem for only being able to reference one style sheet in an old Content Management System (CMS) in use at work. I added YUI grids to the mix for [...]
