The "magic" starts with this in my Vine Type template: < body class="$_nav_section" > When Vine Type generates the XHTML for each page, the navigation section name appears as a class name for the body element.  For the home page, Vine Type renders < body class="Home" > Disappearing act You'll ...

Vine Type navigation links, by design, follow a best practice that is not practiced on the vast majority of websites: Don't Link To The Page You're On. We've all seen this before.  Some set of standard links to every page is displayed across the top of every web page -- so there's always a link that can be clicked that leads ...

Prologue I wanted to document a couple new CSS snafu's that I found in the midst of my work. If you've ever used CSS, you'll realize what a pain it can get to be if you have a lot of nested stuff. The website redesign I was (the company is opting to change their name, logo, color scheme, the works.. so I stopped redesigning) contains a multitude ...

Sreejith,   Sorry, the short answer is "No."  This is a problem with IE6 and before and I think is fixed in IE7.   Certain controls are rendered above everything else and no z-order manipulation or wizardry -- css or otherwise -- is able to get them to render underneath dropdown lists.   The best advice I can ...

Prologue Lately I've been in the process of trying to update some of our website to take advantage of the .NET 2.0 features and try to use best practices in doing so. One of the things that I've been attempting to do, and found very trying is to use CSS as the layout for our website. Our existing website uses tables throughout and while ...