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CSS Trick: Remove borders from linked images

posted on 18 August 2009 (10:42 PM)

Here's a nice little CSS trick I cooked up today when talking to @heliumworkx.

You know how you sometimes use border-bottom to style links? Then you must be familiar with situations where there's an image inside a link on which the border looks really stupid. Unfortunately there's no CSS selector that targets links containing an img element, so a sprinkle of magic is needed in order to hide the border.

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Testing IE6 on Mac using VirtualBox

posted on 07 August 2009 (10:47 AM)

I recently came across VirtualBox, which is a great app that lets you run virtual machines on your Mac. Surprisingly, Microsoft offers different installations of Windows as disc images for free on their site.

So with these two combined, you have a pretty sweet testing environment. Properly configuring Windows in the virtual machine can be a bit of pain in the ass though, so this article aims to break it down into small, easy steps to get you up and running in no time.

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