Stephen Tudor

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Bits and tangents on geek life

Pin Your Footers The CSS Way

I have been using a new CSS technique for creating fixed footers – that is, footers which pin themselves to the bottom of the browser window – without using JavaScript. Headscape designer Ed Merritt is the one who came up with the idea, and like most elegant solutions, this one is so simple that I wish I’d thought of […]

ALA: Faux Absolute Positioning

One of my favorite web publications, A List Apart, has pushed an article about a new CSS layout technique that the author, Eric Sol, calls Faux Absolute Positioning. Up until now, I’d always relied primarily on floating divs. Other folks preferred using (real) absolute positioning, but that required the use of JavaScript to keep the […]