People Share Their CSS “Ah-ha!” Moments
* June 4th, 2008 *
A few weeks ago I shared my CSS “Ah-ha!” Moment and asked others to share theirs. It was lots of fun hearing what those moments were for people. I wasn’t surprised to hear the CSS Zen Garden come up very often, as that was a huge eye-opener for me and countless others I’m sure. I was surprised to hear how many people specifically brought up floats. I’m thinking about doing an in-depth article on that, since I don’t think I ever have.
“…realizing you could style the contents of a box differently to the rest of the page” - Rob Lang
“Must have been in 2002 or 2003, I think. I saw the power of CSS and it’s awesome possibilities in the CSS Zen Garden.” - Oliver
“My CSS ‘Ah-Ha!’, as simple as it might sound, came from understanding that the BROWSER applies IT’S style first and so any CSS you are applying will essentially override those rules” - David Huntley
“Mine was first time I installed Firebug …” - Francisco
“… the time I figured out … the difference between block and inline elements …” - survivor
“… cracking open html.css (the Firefox CSS file) and realizing how a browser works.” - Tim Wright
“… realizing that I could use images for any page element… ” - Bob
“When I finally truly figured out how to get my floats to do what I want in ALL browsers.” - Lindsey
“For me it was when I got my head around the Box Model.” - liam
“… something like ohhh THAT is what clear:both is for.” - V1
“My Ah-ha! moment was realizing that position:relative on a particular div will allow you position:absolute any element inside that div …” - gaga
“The realization of how floats really work. Suddenly, using tables for layout seemed so 90’s.” - Erik Brännström
“… the first time I discovered I didn’t have to use javascript OnMouseOver.” - Jay
“understanding that there is a “normal flow— - Serge
… figuring out how parent styles applied to children … - Heidi
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for someone who is self-taught in this web design/development stuff, i’d like to add that my ah-ha! moment was went i discovered Firefox two yrs ago and realised that it was compliant unlike IE …
that really helped make the development process tick correctly …