The JSS Stylesheet, Part 1

Posted May 5, 2009 * Comments(0)

I’ve said previously that JSS is a lot like CSS. What is CSS?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.

If that blurb were written about JSS, it’d sound a little like this:

JavaScript Style Sheets (JSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) and functionality of a document written in HTML.

In this article, we will look at the syntactic structure of a JSS stylesheet. We will also talk briefly about including JSS stylesheets in your HTML documents.

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Introducing JSS

Posted April 30, 2009 * Comments(0)

Ever wanted to make an image rollover, but you don’t know JavaScript? In this tutorial, we show you how JSS, a CSS-like language, makes this a breeze.

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Making tables print pretty in IE, part 2

Posted January 29, 2009 * Comments(1)

In my last post, I mentioned that I had come up with a way to prevent tables in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 from looking like this. In this post, I’ll show you how to do it.

(Disclaimer: This method has been found to break if the a cell has a line break in it or is wrapped to a second line).

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Making tables print pretty in IE, part 1

Posted January 28, 2009 * Comments(1)

So I’m currently doing a side job developing a web application to help pay for Wezzle and, y’know, food and shelter.

Basically, I’m making a system that displays tables grabbed from an Oracle database using elaborate queries.  That’s the easy part.  These tables need to be printed out.  That’s the hard part. We’ll talk about that here, specifically in relation to IE7 (the hacks here might not work for Firefox or Chrome).

(Disclaimer: This method has been found to break if the a cell has a line break in it or is wrapped to a second line).

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