Tableless Forms using Fieldset, Legend & Label

Here are some great resources on how to avoid using tables for form construction and presentation.

If you have some time, this is a great read. Though it has over 2,000 Diggs, it’s a bit hard to read. It strikes me as ironic that this article is about formatting with CSS… yet the page itself leaves quite a bit to be desired.

Jeff Howden has an easy-to-follow example, and here’s a good article at CSS Drive with some examples.

While I was researching this post, I stumbled across a “Humbling Site” CSSRemix, a site filled with the most amazing example XHTML/CSS sites that are, quite frankly, just jaw dropping.  It immediately reminded me of The FWA (The Flash Website Awards).  A Humbling Site is a site where, when you visit it as a pretty darn good web developer, you are instantly reminded that no matter how good you think you are, there’s always somebody better.

Strange IE-Pseudo-Property: hasLayout

On Having Layout describes a strange property that certain elements may or may not have. Why should you be concerned? Well, if Internet Explorer is not behaving as more standards-compliant browsers are, this could be why.

See also: How to insert conditional css for IE only.

IE Conditional Comments

This page at QuirksMode is the best single page reference on Conditional Comments in IE.

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

See Also: IE hasLayout Property