Using css floats effectively can be confusing and it’s probably one of the things that trips up most people when they’re first learning css. However once you learn to control floated elements it opens up a whole new world of possibilities in your design and makes developing layouts much simpler.

And best of all floats really aren’t that hard to work with once you understand a few key points.
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A couple of weeks ago when writing about css vs tables I mentioned it was a myth that cross browser css was hard to implement. I thought I’d take a deeper look into cross browser css today and offer some ideas and tips to make cross browser development easier.
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One of the debates that never seems to go away in the web development community is that of css vs tables and which is better to use for the layout of your site. I’m surprised this debate continues, though admittedly I’m continuing it right now after the question was raised on my small business forum. I think much of the reason css vs tables is still debated is the misinformation people on both sides put out there. Hopefully I can clear up a few things in this post and let you make your own decision.
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You have an element in your html that you want to temporarily hide. should you change it’s visibility to hidden or its display to none? Is there any difference? How will the rest of the page respond to your element that’s sometimes seen and sometimes not?
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Most of the time when designing your site navigation you’ll turn to an image to give it that something extra. However images add weight to a web page and make additional http requests leading to longer load times. Ever since I began developing websites, I’ve looked for ways to replace images with code. Today I want to share a simple way to style navigation buttons sans images and using css only.
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