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  • Validation

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    While trying to solve a validation issue in one of my web sites I came across the following forum posting. It was stated so well that I decided to re-post it here. I want to encourage my readers to understand that when a page doesn’t pass validation, it doesn’t mean that the page is “broken”.…

  • Browser coordinate system

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    Student Question: “I have a question about the box shadows: what if you don’t want the box shadows to appear on the right and bottom of the box? The code that we used (ex. -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px black;) doesn’t specify locations. What if, instead, I wanted the shadows to appear on the top and…

  • Attribute syntax in HTML and CSS

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    A student asked the following question… “I understand what we’re doing, but I’m worried about memorizing all of the coding. It might help if I understood the reasons behind all of it. For example, why do font changes need semicolons on them and not just a closing quotation mark like other things?” Great question and…