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Hi again guys! As you can see I’m not dead :p

I know it’s been forever. I’m really sorry. I write this blog to help out everyone that is interested in CSS. I don’t earn money with it, so unfortunately I can’t spend all the time I want writing. I’ll try to improve my timing though
Well, no more introductions. Let’s get down to business.

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Although CSS can do lot’s of stuff by itself, it also relies a lot on images. Websites without bullets, icons and backgrounds aren’t that lovely to see.

When we slice and dice our designs in order to create a website, optimizing the images is a key factor when we are focusing in our site’s response time.

Be clever with image file formats and you’ll go a step further in optimizing your site.

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One of the existing CSS properties is: min-height.

The min-height property is quite self-explanatory. It defines the minimum height of an element. If the element’s content exceeds this value, the element resizes to the size needed.

On the other hand, the height property defines a fixed size. If the element’s content exceeds that size, the element doesn’t change it’s size, however it’s content overflows.

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After some time battling with Internet Explorer 6 & 7, I discovered that most of it’s rendering problems are produced when using floats, because the hasLayout variable gets messed up.

Internet Explorer browser has a built-in variable called hasLayout, that allows the browser to ‘construct’ the elements in the page, interact with other elements, etc. When this variable is set to true, the content displays fine, but when it doesn’t our site gets pretty jammed.

Ignore the technicalities. Let’s go to the practical stage…

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