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Part 4: Coding a Drop Down Menu

I’m still doing my best to master the fine points of building a drop down horizontal navigation menu. In my earlier posts on this topic I was building them with divs. Now I’m trying to do my best building them with ordered lists from memory – as in not having to reference W3Schools or some

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Multi-Image Background

I just recently finished up coding a nice “About Me” page on my South Ataria Island website. I want to share with you my thinking behind the background for that page, it isn’t rocket science but if you’re new to CSS like me hopefully you’ll find this helpful. I wanted the background to have columns

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Offset Text Inside a Box Effect

I’ve recently completed an overhaul of the ‘Macross Hotels’ page. One small feature I wish to elaborate on is the text blocks I used for the hotel names. I wanted a block of color with the text aligned all the way to the bottom right edge, below is a picture of the effect.

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Part 3: Coding a Drop Down Menu

In Part 2 I built a skeleton drop down menu just to illustrate the basic principles. In the following I want to fill out that skeleton and build an entire navigation bar. Remember, we are starting with here which is a drop down menu built with divs (not with an ordered list). Part A: Dummy Text First

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Part 2: Coding a Drop Down Menu

I’m on day 2 of my quest to get a full understanding of how to code a horizontal navigation menu with a drop down submenu. Again, this is no easy task to wrap your head around. Fortunately for me there are numerous incredible coders who freely share their code online, which has helped me out

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Inline-Block Div in a Div

A few days ago I wrote a post entitled “Floating Divs in a Div” where I shared a small quirk I was having with the float property when I coding a layout that had nested divs inside a larger div. After another post where I learned that ‘inline-block’ acts almost just like ‘float’ I wanted

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