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Newspaper Style Columns With (and Without) CSS3

written by Daniel Angel for the Web Design section

⇒26 Aug 2009

Newspaper

One of the coolest features of CSS3 is the ability to create newspaper-like columns on your layouts without any extra markup. We always find ourselves “cheating”, using things like <div id="column-one"> which is not very good, so this property would save us a lot of time and unnecessary code.

CSS3 solves all this with the use of some really cool properties: column-width, column-gap and column-rule. I guess they’re pretty self explanatory, except for column-rule which basically behaves like a border in between columns, so it can be treated like one, using width, style, etc. If you need more details, you can go to the source. Read on!

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⇒31 Jul 2009

get_browser(): learning to use PHP's browser identifying function

OK, this one’s a bit more technical than usual!

On a previous post, I discussed how you could use PHP’s get_browser() function to detect your users’ browser information. You may need to do this for a number of reasons: fixing small CSS details (for instance, positioning <button> elements next to input fields and getting them to display correctly) and preventing your users from seeing stuff reserved for the googlebot† are some examples that come to mind. Read on!

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