WEB STANDARDS CREATIVITY

Numbers
66-character line, 161
1024-pixel grids, 134
Symbols
$ symbol, 102
* CSS universal selector, 140
+ sibling combinator, 96
^ substring selector, 99
A
A List Apart website, 134
tag. See anchor tag
accessibility, 104, 242–260
Accessify.com, 183
Adams, Cameron, 209
addClass() method, 228
addEvent function, 188, 201
addLoadListener() method, 220, 227, 231
addPrintLinks function, 189, 195, 199
adjacent selectors, paragraphs and, 168
adjacent sibling selectors, 96, 107
:after rule, 59
all caps text, 175
alpha-channel transparency, 110
AlphaImageLoader work-around, for Internet Explorer, 46,
126
alternate style sheets, 216–221
anchor tag, 227, 230
appendChild() method, 238
article templates, 52, 66, 74
attribute value selectors, 107
auditory impairment, 245
B
background-attachment property, 11
background-color property, 11, 90
background-image property, 11, 90, 93, 103
background images, 9, 18, 146
background-position property, 11
background-repeat property, 11
backgrounds, 10
binary transparency, 110, 112
tag, 83, 103
Blog Standard Stuff, 183
body element, 51–76
body selector, 12
tag, 11, 87, 90
borders, 20
Boulton, Mark, 131
box outs, 137
branding
styling, 149
for WorrySome.net site, 91, 103
Brill, Ryan, 54, 58
browsers. See also Internet Explorer; Safari
CSS and, 89
legacy, 106
PNG transparency and, 46, 126
small-screen, 88
web design and, 80
window size and, 216, 219
buttons, 195
C
canvas, 134
Carter, Matthew, 158
Cascading Style Sheets. See CSS
Chao, Ingo, 60
checkBrowserWidth() method, 219, 222
child selectors, 107
Clarke, Andy, 79
class attribute, 62, 66, 70, 75
class names, 63, 71
class selectors, 38
className attribute, 194
clearing method, 36, 59
ClearType, 178
click event, 227
clickExpandCollapse() method, 228
cloneNode() method, 234
CMSs (content management systems) , 25–49
layout/styles and, 35–40
markup and, 32–35
typography and, 40–43
cognitive disabilities, 245
collapsed class, 228, 230
Collison, Simon, 3
color-changing icons, 123
colors, 140, 111
columns, 60, 68–71, 137
designing, 138
floated, 58
gutters and, 139
sample project and, 142
positioning, 146
width and, 146
for WorrySome.net site, 93–98
conditional comments, 55, 107
#container, 91
container divs, 90, 145
containers (dl), 21
content areas, 54
expanding/collapsing, 226–230
for WorrySome.net site, 82, 91
content-layout, 59, 64
content_main, 7
content management systems. See CMSs
content templates, 28, 35
creating layouts, 209–241
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