Most Important CSS Techniques You Need To Know

[nreece]

http://trevordavis.net/blog/tutorial/the-6-most-important-css-techniques-you-need-to-know/

[jauco]

I was amazed that he had found a cross-browser way to make sure font-sizes match pixels. But when testing it i found that his 12 pixel header is 8 pixels on my screen (smaller) and his 36 pixel heading is 40 pixels (larger) :-( that's with a plain firefox. Am I the only one experiencing this, or is this feature just not usefull?

[danw → jauco]

Different browsers vary on how they do rounding of font sizes. I believe most browsers now set font size 100% to be 16px.

[chrisbroadfoot]

For those looking for reset css, check here: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/

[jgrahamc]

#3 is a prime example of why tables are good for layout.

[redorb]

his logic on the px size standardization works for a while then breaks,

[dc2k08]

an simpler way for consistant margins and padding is

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }