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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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...