CSS Tips & Tricks

How to make the vertical navigation column expands through the entire height of the web page with CSS. That’s question often asked time and time again on various forums.

While this can be easily achieved with table-based web page layout, it can be tricky when using CSS instead. As a matter of fact maintaining columns of same height when one of them is expanding vertically is quite a bit of a challenge in CSS without the use of javascript.

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The power of CSS, besides giving the web designers more control over the web pages layout is also the separation between the page content and its presentation.

Linking your web pages to an external CSS file makes the HTML code cleaner, creates a more consistent look throughout your web site and updating your web pages layout much much easier: modify your CSS files then all your web pages follow the new CSS rules in a snap.

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Css offers web developers a new way to control the display of the background image in a given layer.

With plain HTML, the background image is always tiled both horizontally and vertically in the containing area. The usual trick to avoid the tiling was then to create a background graphic with the same dimensions as the area it’s placed.

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