Using Firebug to Hack TinyMCE

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Sometimes we have to use someone else’s CMS to get our content live. That’s what I ran into today. The genius that set up this suctom CMS, decided it wasn’t a good idea to allow the user to have access to the HTML editor that comes with TinyMCE, so at first I thought my ability… Read more »

Scriptaculous Autocomplete Page Jump Using Arrow Keys

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When you use overflow:auto in your css in conjunction with Scriptaculous’ Autocomplete, there is a bug that makes the entire page jump around when you use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate up and down through the suggestion list. This bug normally appears only when the page itself is long enough to require… Read more »

IE6 Empty Div spacing issue

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It has become fairly common practice to use CSS to fill the contents of an empty DIV tag. For example, I’m working on a project now that uses the following DIV: <div id=”main_nav_top_shadow”></div> And with CSS I’m giving that div a fixed height and a repeating background image that creates the appearance of a shadow… Read more »

Safari CSS Hack

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I just came across an article about how to write CSS only visible to Safari 3.0 and Opera 9. It saved my life so I thought I’d share the love! It was especially useful to me while trying to use ‘display: inline;’ to create a horizonal nav out of an unordered list <ul>. It turns… Read more »

piped navigation with css

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You’ve seen piped navigation before. Typically found in the footer of websites, appearing as a list of links separated by a | (pipe). There’s a nice way to fake piping using really clean, standards friendly code along with our friend, CSS. I’ve been using this method for years now and am quite happy with it…. Read more »