‘Five Minute Argument’ is the personal site of Bobby Jack, a London-based Web Developer.
How to build a scrolling list with jQuery
This tutorial explains, step-by-step, how to use CSS and jQuery animations to build a simple ‘auto-scrolling’ vertical list.
Adding semantics to jquery-ui’s progress bar
Or ‘Adding functionality to the CSS progress bar’
How to style a right-aligned menu, the easy way.
By their nature, links — and, especially, images within them — can display quite unexpectedly.
Yes, those fixed-positioned elements are annoying; please bear with me.
Specificity rules are simple and robust. Despite this, they sometimes ‘break’ in weird and wonderful ways.
How to implement a basic, gracefully degrading progress bar using HTML and CSS.
Take a look at the wonderful world of ‘universal IE6’.
An image can be floated and, in effect, absolutely positioned by wrapping it in an absolutely positioned container.
Punctuation at the beginning of a line can be set to ‘hang’ in the left-hand margin, creating a solid ‘edge’ and maintaining flow of the main body text.
Recent changes to the fma homepage have, hopefully, created a ‘best of all worlds’ layout.
A ‘liquid layout’ adjusts to the size of the browser, ensuring content widths are flexible, and at the mercy of the user.
In modern browsers, with javascript and css enabled, this ‘intro’ paragraph begins with a stylised ‘I’, shifted to the left of the main copy. A ‘drop cap’, in other words. Here’s my method.
Or ‘why would you want to?’
Another day, another set of broken behaviour
Sometimes I feel like the CSS spec is just a little bit like the C++ language: too big for any mere mortal to hold in their head.
Sometimes, clearing isn’t as obvious as you might think.
Tables and the margin collapse
Further confusion surrounding margins and their collapsing behaviour.
On the correct use of inheritance.
How to add a splash of colour to your bullet points.
Introducing a new ‘dynamic tutorial’ series
Break your addiction to !important and make the web a better world.
An interactive demonstration of the line-height property.
An interactive demonstration of the text-align property.
Yet another poorly-supported property for table styling.
There appear to be rounding errors in many browsers, particularly IE7, when specifying width in em units.
Ensuring whitespace is visible
If you’ve ever dealt with logging or debugging your software, you’ve probably had to deal with the issue of whitespace. But how best to display this in HTML?
Introducing the box model and how various configurations of padding and margin affect final layout.
Float containers and their default behaviour
Why do simple containers not expand around floated contents?
A basic technique for swapping two columns in a layout.
Introducing the box model
Collapsing margins in nested blocks
Explaining the collapse of margins within an element
A short note about the (non-) inheritance of background values.
In which we discuss four ways that elements can be floated: simple, margin under float, opposing, and same side.
Fancy borders with nested divs
How elements on the same horizontal behave
‘Five Minute Argument’ is the personal site of Bobby Jack, a London-based Web Developer.