Front-end developer essentials – which DTD to use?

18 August 2010 | No comments

A DTD (document type definition) tells the browser what version of (X)HTML you are coding your web page in. Standards compliant pages must contain a DTD as the first item on the page otherwise it will not validate. Which one should you use? Continue Front-end developer essentials – which DTD to use?…

CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes: Part 3

8 March 2007 | 9 comments

In this series of articles I have described how to remove the deprecated attributes in HTML and replicate the styles using CSS. The first part looked at hspace and vspace, type and border. Part two described how to replicate link, alink and vlink, size, noshade and clear. In this final part I will be mopping up width, height, bgcolor and align. Continue CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes: Part 3…