Comments on: People Share Their CSS “Ah-ha!” Moments

By: That Girl

That Girl — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:28:51 +0000

Realizing you can put multiple classes on things… ;)

By: carlnunes

carlnunes — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:00:56 +0000

One of my CSS â€œAh-haâ€ moments came when I started picturing a box, beginning at the top, flowing clockwise; to help me remember CSS shorthand values’ order.

.class{margin:top right bottom left}

By: Johnny Rivera

Johnny Rivera — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:57:31 +0000

My CSS “Ah-ha” moment came when I downloaded a simple guest book for my sidebar. I noticed it had a nice background color (which I knew how to do at the time), what introduced me to css was .box { border: 1px solid #FFFFFF } I needed to know desperately what was making the border.

By: Ed de Jong

Ed de Jong — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:14:05 +0000

My first ‘Ah-ha’ moment was when I discovered (back in 2001) that CSS was the way to go to separate a site’s content/semantics from it’s presentation. I built my first site with Golive and I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I looked at the bloated & inefficient code it produced.

My second enlightment was – as for many others I believe- the Zen Gardens: their beautiful and inspiring examples proved it actually could be done with CSS. I’m more of a programmer then a designer, but I’ve learned quite a lot there.

And while we’re at it: thanks Chris for all your time and effort to make this site a worthwhile place to visit frequently.

Regards,
Ed

By: William

William — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:51:21 +0000

The realization that I could get rid of the default (ugly) link styling and apply my own!

By: Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning - CSS-Tricks

Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning - CSS-Tricks — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:45:42 +0000

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By: Niobe

Niobe — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:29:52 +0000

Like daniel, multiple classes (input class=”bordr mndtry”) and child classes, like styling #menu links differently from #main links.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:05:53 +0000

… multiple classes !!

By: Audrey Viviana

Audrey Viviana — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:15:49 +0000

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 …