Ask HN: What's your most useful CSS or JavaScript trick?

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by smashing_mag • 15 years ago

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Over time we all learn little nifty coding tricks that help us solve common problems or anticipate potential bugs. What's your favorite CSS or JavaScript tip for beginners and professionals? What do you keep using often in your design or development work?

jimmynewtron• 15 years ago

CSS Reset. Every project starts with a full reset.

proexploit• 15 years ago

Full Reset? As in * { clear everything }?

jk215• 15 years ago

Look up the Eric Meyer CSS reset. It saves tons of time with cross-browser compatibility issues straight from the beginning.

ontouchstart• 15 years ago

document.styleSheets[0].insertRule(...)

Flam• 15 years ago

*rule/_rule for CSS ie6/7 hacks font-weight: 900 instead of bold, saves 1 character :P

geuis• 15 years ago

Simple doctype: <!DOCTYPE html>

Script tags just work (no need for type="text/javascript": <script></script>

CSS

Understand how to do general vs specific border/margin/etc assignments and how they cascade. Useful for generic

classes:

.class1{ border:1px solid #000; }

.sub_class1{ border-bottom:2px solid #cc0000; }

0|3.14 === 3, vs Math.floor(3.14) === 3

Ask HN: What's your most useful CSS or JavaScript trick?

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