It’s never good practice to use HTML elements as presentation elements, but sometimes you gotta use an <hr />.
color: #000;
background-color: #000;
height: 4px;
border: none;
Note that you have to specify the color and background color so it works in IE.
As you probably know, Internet Explorer has a bad habit of butchering CSS. While working on a project the other day, I came across a quick way to fix CSS that looks great in all browsers except for IE. If you weren’t aware (I wasn’t!), the underscore character preceding any property in a […]
You can’t get very far with CSS unless you have some standard HTML. My favorite flavor of hypertext markup is XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Here is a fresh template:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Blank XHTML 1 Transitional Page</title>
</head>
<body>
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