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Monday, 28 August 2006 |
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The purpose of this article is to show a new method of obfuscating an email address on a Web page. This method feeds a nonsensical email address to spambots, then uses CSS to remove the nonsensical characters so the email address is correct for human users. How will we accomplish this feat? We will include extra noisy characters in the email address text, which will confuse the spambots, and then use CSS to set those characters to display:none, so in effect they have been removed for human users. In the arms race to beat the spambots, using CSS might get us one step ahead of spambots in obfuscating email addresses. UPDATED 2006/08/29: Some code examples were not displaying correctly.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 30 August 2006 )
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Sunday, 16 April 2006 |
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Using CSS, you can style the browser window scrollbars. But this is a Microsoft extension to CSS, so only Internet Explorer supports it. Still, it's easy to do, and since most of your visitors probably use Internet Explorer, you might want to do it anyway. It can really look great.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 17 April 2006 )
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Wednesday, 12 April 2006 |
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A common need in Web design is a centered layout. But many people have problems coding it using CSS. In past years, centering a page was done with the <center> element. The current method to center a page is using CSS, but due to browser incompatibilities, it's a little tricky.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 April 2006 )
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Monday, 27 February 2006 |
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Using modular stylesheets is the next step in creating modular and reuseable styles. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) decided to modularize the CSS3 spec, because modularization makes sense. You can use modularization concepts on your Web site to organize your CSS code and reduce bugs.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 27 February 2006 )
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Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
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Using CSS, there are many built-in cursor styles you use, from the waiting hour glass to directional pointers. Also, in Internet Explorer 6, you can use custom cursors by uploading custom cursor files (.cur) to your Web site and then referencing them via CSS. Also, you probably have hundreds of cursors on your computer you could upload and use. Just remember Google's motto, "Don't Be Evil." Custom cursors can be extremely annoying to users, no matter how fun they might seem. Used appropriately, though, CSS cursors can add a lot of usability to the user experience.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 24 February 2006 )
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