Here is a presentation I gave on the CSS cascade at a company training session recently. A simple ste-by-step tutorial on the CSS cascade - for web designers and developers who are new to CSS or have struggled with the Cascade.
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Two articles now in Norwegian
Thanks to Bjorn Enki, CSS Centering - fun for all and Web standards checklist have been just been translated into Norwegian:
CSS Sentrering - moro for alle!
Sjekkliste for web standard
The Web standards checklist article has now been translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Italian, French, German, Polish, French (Quebec), Portuguese, Czech, Russian, Finnish, Serbian, […]
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
We are excited to announce this years workshop series:
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites - with Roger Hudson
An all new accessibility workshop that focuses on providing practical advice to help […]
Two articles - now in italian
Thanks to Luca Magnani Styling the <hr> element has now been translated into Italian and Ideal line length for content has now been translated into Italian.
Three new translations
Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: выравнивание inline изображений с помощью css свойства vertical-align
Web standards checklist has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: checklist web-стандартов
Web standards checklist has now been translated into Swedish by Lillan Backa. Translation: Web standards checklist - […]
“Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property” - now in Brazilian-Portuguese
Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property has now been translated into Brazilian-Portuguese by Mauricio Samy Silva.
“Styling abbreviations and acronyms” - now in Russian
Styling abbreviations and acronyms has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: Аббревиатуры и акронимы
Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property
I recently received the following question:
How do you vertically position a small image inside a paragraph of text?
Answer
Let’s start with an example - a paragraph that contains a single line of text and a small image (shown as the small blue box below).
Next, we need to look at the 6 primary lines that can be […]
“CSS Centering - fun for all” - now in Russian
CSS Centering - fun for all! has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: Способы css центрирования блоков
Valid replacement for <ol type=”a”>
I was recently sent this question:
I have used <ol type=”a”> in my markup. The W3C validator tells me that this is invalid. How can I change the “type” of an ordered list’s the list without using this attribute?
Answer:
The type attribute associated with the <ul> , <ol> and <li> has been deprecated as it is […]

