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Pretty form controls with CSS
posted on 28 February 2007 (10:48 AM)
As Roger Johansson proves in his article(s) on styling form controls, you are very limited when it comes to spicing up form controls.
There are some sites around that provide an alternative, but these techniques rely heavily on Javascript to swap the normal form control with an image.
With the CSS3 pseudo-class :checked as my weapon of choice, I'll provide a way to make checkboxes pretty using CSS only (and tell you in which browsers it goes wrong).
Why use semantic class names?
posted on 06 February 2007 (04:48 PM)
In the new Dutch accessibility law I recently linked to, one of the guidelines is Use semantic and descriptive classnames and ids
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Why? A lot of web standards / accessibility advocates talk about this subject and everyone mutually agrees that this indeed should be pursued. I don’t get it… why should I care?