Welcome!

[Sven]

Today, we are glad to welcome Chris Coyier, who you may know from his articles on CSS-Tricks, to our Smashing Magazine Editorial Team. From now on, Chris will regularly answer your CSS- and jQuery-related questions and present answers to the most interesting, useful and original ones in his articles on Smashing Magazine. Welcome, Chris!

Of course, you can send any CSS- and jQuery-related question you want. To ask a question post it here.

[mloclam]

Thanks Sven and Chris, will start to bug you soon with the questions

[wonderer]

Hey Chris, what is your opinion on CSS Frameworks? What frameworks are better, which are not that bloated and what frameworks are easy to learn? It would be great if you could also recommend a good CSS-framework for an average online-shop. Thanks!

[avinash]

hey Chris, I have been trying to add horizontal tabs in one of my project site. I tried many ready to use tabs from different source sites like Dynamic drives and others but i have been facing so many problems that i couldn't modify them as i desired. so could you please help me??? here's the link exactly what i want

http://cybersansar.com/prototype/ufo/index_blue.php

scroll down where you see men's women's kids' others

will be waiting for your response.
Thanks.

[Vitaly]

by @upstartdesignerL

question: my site has multiple layouts. I want a cookie that remembers what layout an user wants, with a save button. Thanks!

[d3signr]

by @upstartdesignerL

question: my site has multiple layouts. I want a cookie that remembers what layout an user wants, with a save button. Thanks!

You could try this method: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/phpswitch

[ncjcj]

I am looking for the new php mysql Is this the correct place?

Do you answer wordpress questions with regard to php and mySQL?

[chriscoyier]

@avinash: I'm a big jQuery guy and for my "tabbed boxes" (it looks like that's what you are going for), I use jQuery UI:

http://ui.jquery.com/demos/tabs/

I've also done an example in the past using Yahoo's JS libraries:

http://css-tricks.com/simple-tabbed-box/

[chriscoyier]

@wonderer: I've sort of spelled out how I feel about CSS frameworks here:
http://css-tricks.com/what-are-the-bene ... framework/

Personally I just tend to feel like CSS is a fairly simple language and I LIKE writing it from scratch. They aren't for me, BUT, I'm sure they can be used highly effectively and don't frown on their use at all.

[popbogdan]

I am looking for the new php mysql Is this the correct place?

Do you answer wordpress questions with regard to php and mySQL?

Perhaps you should add your questions in the coding forum here. This is for CSS questions.
back-end-php-ruby-on-rails-f13/

[tosman01]

what are the dimensions i should use when making a centered site layout

thanks

[iCatalin]

hy Chris, i saw a hover on a link with rounded corners. I don't know how to do it. Can you help me? It looks like this

[avinash]

hey Crish i like the one from jquery UI but the problem is i don't know how to use it. download or some other way???
help me

[RazvanPavel]

@iCatalin: it's done with CSS browser specification (-moz-border-radius, -webkit-border-radius). It goes something like this:

Code: Select all

a.title, a.title:visited {
font: normal 16px Arial, Helvetica, bla bla;
display: block; /*IE doesn't add top and bottom paddings to inline elements*/
padding: 4px 8px;
}
a:hover {
background: #f00;
-moz-border-radius: 4px; /*specific CSS selector for Firefox*/
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;/*specific CSS selector for webkit based browsers*/
}


Also, if you have a fixed with link (somethign that doesn't change dinamicly) , you could just add a background image on the hover property (you need to specifiy the width and height).

[RazvanPavel]

oops, ignore the word "selector", way too sleepy