10 best CSS hacks

by Dejan Cancarevic

http://stylizedweb.com/

If you are front end coder you must know how important is to make cross browses, valid CSS and xHTML code. And also you must know how much time we are spending in all those hacks and fixes for various browsers.

Here is the list of 10 hand picked CSS hacks and tricks which can help you in your CSS code and also save some time.

1. Vertical align div

http://stylizedweb.com/2008/02/01/vertical-align-div/

2. Min-Height

selector {

min-height:500px;

height:auto; !important

height:500px;

}

3. PNG transparency

http://stylizedweb.com/2007/12/30/png-transparency-issues/

4. Autoclear

.container:after {

content: “.”;

display: block;

height: 0;

clear: both;

visibility: hidden;

}
.container {display: inline-table;}

/* Hides from IE-mac \*/

* html .container {height: 1%;

}

.container {display: block;}
/* End hide from IE-mac */

5. Reset CSS

body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form,
fieldset,input,p,blockquote,th,td {

margin:0; padding:0;

}

table {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;}
fieldset,img {border:0;}
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var {

font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;

}
ol,ul {list-style:none;}
caption,th {text-align:left;}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {font-size:100%;}
q:before,q:after {content:”;}

6. Scrolling Render IE

html {

background : url(null) fixed no-repeat;

}

7. Opacity

#transdiv {

filter:alpha(opacity=75);

-moz-opacity:.75;

opacity:.75;

}

8. PRE Tag

pre {

white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */

white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */

white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */

white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */

word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */

}

9. Li Background Repeat IE

<!–[if lt IE 7]>
<style>

#leftnav li { zoom: 1;} /* haslayout=true */

</style>
<![endif]–>

10. Good to know

@charset “UTF-8″;

/* ———————————————————————-
WinIE7
———————————————————————- */
*:first-child+html selector{property:value;}

/* ———————————————————————-
WinIE6 & Mac IE
———————————————————————- */
* html selector{property:value;}/* ———————————————————————-
WinIE6
———————————————————————- */
/*\*/
* html selector{property:value;}
/**//* ———————————————————————-
MacIE
———————————————————————- */
/*\*//*/
selector{property:value;}
/**/