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May 2003

May 27, 2003

Fun with links

Yesterday we talked about the box model. Today we’re going to put a small part of it to work, by investigating ways of styling links. Before getting stuck in, we need to talk a bit about pseudo-selectors (also known as pseudo classes). The CSS specification defines pseudo classes as “characteristics that cannot be deduced from the document tree”, but in practise the only widely implemented psuedo selectors are those that apply to links. The key psuedo selectors for links are:

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May 31, 2003

Golden Mean

Golden Mean is Doug Bowman’s first contribution to the CSS Zen Garden, and it’s a very nice piece of work. Even better is the fact that Doug has provided extensive coverage of the design process (including technical CSS details) on his blog.

Infrequent updates

My infrequent updates can be blamed on two things: revision for exams (three next week) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. One of these two has been taking up far more time than it should...

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