Steven Reimer

Yet again, IE 6 CSS is on my plate today at work. Drop-down menus specifically. Always interested in getting my work done in the least amount of effort I hit the Internet up for a better IE 6 fix all.

My expectations were low, but behold! I came across this gem from Peter Nederlof appropriately named Whatever:hover.

The biggest problem with IE 6 is that it doesn't support the :hover selector for anything other than an anchor. What this fix does is this: ( quoted from the site)

• Search all stylesheets for :hover rules IE doesn't support
• Insert a new rule IE does support, like one with class names
• and finally, set up script events for switching class names

I implemented this expecting to have to do at least some customization, but again, I was pleasantly surprised that it just worked! A big thanks to Peter for making web developers' lives a little easier.

I learned a CSS trick today - centering an absolutely positioned div. It is quite simple, really. Set top to 50% and set the left-margin to a negative value of half of it's width.

For example:

#centered_div {
  position: absolute;
  width:500px;
  top: 0;
  left: 50%;
  margin-left: -250px;
}

Cleverly simple.

Dan, this one is for you.

You know that outline on href's you see when you click the link? I used to get rid of that with an "onclick=blur()". Well, I just found a way easier method.

a { outline: none; }

And I call myself a web developer. How did I not know this?