To clip text with an ellipsis when it overflows a table cell, you will need to set the max-width CSS property on each td class for the overflow to work. No extra layout div elements are required: td { max-width: 100px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; } For responsive layouts; use the max-width CSS … Read more
Here’s a solution for Bootstrap 3, 4, and 5. To make a functional file input control that looks like a button, you only need HTML: HTML <label class=”btn btn-default”> Browse <input type=”file” hidden> </label> This works in all modern browsers, including IE9+. If you need support for old IE as well, please use the legacy … Read more
> selects immediate children For example, if you have nested divs like such: <div class=”outer”> <div class=”middle”> <div class=”inner”>…</div> </div> <div class=”middle”> <div class=”inner”>…</div> </div> </div> and you declare a css rule in your stylesheet like such: .outer > div { … } your rules will apply only to those divs that have a class … Read more
What are the target browsers? Different browsers set different default CSS rules. Try including a CSS reset, such as the meyerweb CSS reset or normalize.css, to remove those defaults. Google “CSS reset vs normalize” to see the differences.
Both are valid. It’s your choice. I prefer border:0 because it’s shorter; I find that easier to read. You may find none more legible. We live in a world of very capable CSS post-processors so I’d recommend you use whatever you prefer and then run it through a “compressor”. There’s no holy war worth fighting … Read more
The align-items property of flex-box aligns the items inside a flex container along the cross axis just like justify-content does along the main axis. (For the default flex-direction: row the cross axis corresponds to vertical and the main axis corresponds to horizontal. With flex-direction: column those two are interchanged respectively). Here’s an example of how … Read more
I work on normalize.css. The main differences are: Normalize.css preserves useful defaults rather than “unstyling” everything. For example, elements like sup or sub “just work” after including normalize.css (and are actually made more robust) whereas they are visually indistinguishable from normal text after including reset.css. So, normalize.css does not impose a visual starting point (homogeny) … Read more
There aren’t a lot of “Best Practices” yet. Those of us that are using inline-styles, for React components, are still very much experimenting. There are a number of approaches that vary wildly: React inline-style lib comparison chart All or nothing? What we refer to as “style” actually includes quite a few concepts: Layout — how … Read more
For Bootstrap 4.0: In Bootstrap 4.0.0 you cannot use the col-* classes reliably (works in Firefox, but not in Chrome). You need to use OhadR’s answer: <tr> <th style=”width: 16.66%”>Col 1</th> <th style=”width: 25%”>Col 2</th> <th style=”width: 50%”>Col 4</th> <th style=”width: 8.33%”>Col 5</th> </tr> For Bootstrap 3.0: With twitter bootstrap 3 use: class=”col-md-*” where * … Read more
IMO these are the best breakpoints: @media (min-width:320px) { /* smartphones, portrait iPhone, portrait 480×320 phones (Android) */ } @media (min-width:480px) { /* smartphones, Android phones, landscape iPhone */ } @media (min-width:600px) { /* portrait tablets, portrait iPad, e-readers (Nook/Kindle), landscape 800×480 phones (Android) */ } @media (min-width:801px) { /* tablet, landscape iPad, lo-res laptops … Read more