That Norwegian Guy

Having spare time has unexpected consequences. Such as plowing through an entire book in one sitting. Last night I finally picked up my copy of Everything you know about CSS is wrong. A daunting title indeed, but the book is just over 100 pages, so it’s a quick read. And what you learn is basically [...]

What an amazing feeling it is to win something that you actually want.
Just got a tweet saying I won SitePoint’s new book Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong. That is the one CSS book that’s come out recently that I feel any need of reading. As it is, I’ve done my fair share of [...]

Using absolute positioning to hide and show a nested list is one of the better ways to create a dropdown menu, and it can almost be done using only CSS. IE6 needs a little javascript help to respect the :hover pseudo-class. The Sons of Suckerfish will help you there.
Now you have your perfect semantic validating [...]

Things that sometimes “magically” make Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 behave like expected from modern browsers.

position: relative
zoom: 1
height: 1%

They are all due to Microsoft’s proprietary concept of hasLayout.
Feel free to add any other magic bullets in the comments.

I’ve been stuck on a piece of CSS lately, simply couldn’t get the :hover to work on an anchor <a> element, in IE6 offcourse. Setting the positioning, the positioning of the container element, floats, z-index’s. All to no use. In the end I gave in and posted my problem on css-discuss. This is the reply [...]