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› November 25, 2005
Search engines as CSS reference
Not particularly groundbreaking, but as of late, I've been finding search engines to be very quick CSS reference points. Just type in "css" plus whatever you've forgotten, and likely you'll find the answer right there in the results. For example when I'm wondering "How do I make text uppercase with CSS again?", I can just search Google for css uppercase, (or msn search, or Yahoo!, etc.) and right there in the results (usually) the answer can be copy/pasted: text-transform:uppercase;.
I'm still visiting the W3C CSS2 Spec of course, but sometimes it's nice to save a few clicks. While we're on the subject, OS X users (myself included) might prefer instead to fold the excellent SeeSS widget into their workflow. Ironically, due to a Safari/widget bug and the fact that the W3C CSS spec uses named anchors, the creator of the SeeSS widget needed to make this jump link page, which might be a handy bookmark for those not fortunate enough to be working on OS X.
Comments
1. November 26, 2005 09:04 PM
2. November 27, 2005 02:00 PM
nr Posted…
A pretty comprehensive website for HTML & CSS issues (in general) is www.htmlbyexample.com. Another web resource for CSS & fonts topics is www.whatdoiknow.org.
3. November 28, 2005 02:19 AM
Dustin Posted…
You're right about the ground breaking deal. If you're fortunate to have already located a cheat sheet online and printed it out, you could just use that.
4. November 28, 2005 02:16 PM
Mathieu 'p01' HENRI Posted…
I might loose some 'precious' seconds, but I simply use the PDF version of the CSS2.1 specifications and press Ctrl+F :p
5. November 30, 2005 07:49 PM
Joe Posted…
Yeah, I use Google to look up lots of stuff. It's a great chocolate chip recipe reference too. Duh.
6. November 30, 2005 08:32 PM
Nate Posted…
Yeah, "Joe", you're right - but I think I covered that in the first 3 words of my post.
Jon Henshaw Posted…
I do the exact same thing. I'm always forgetting special styles for things like kerning (letter-spacing), and can find the answer faster if I just use Google.