Comments on: The Most Common HTML and CSS Mistakes to Avoid

By: Ivan Tsankov

Ivan Tsankov — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:50:36 +0000

Cool stuff! Of course there’s more crucial HTML/CSS mistakes to avoid like:
Overuse of classes,Use of unnecessary Meta tags(can slow down the loading), using Embed or Object tag (Unusable now and some browser won’t render them properly),
The Blink tag (users won’t like it I assure you).
Using tables is another bad practice, except using it for displaying data and info.

By: Kosmetyki

Kosmetyki — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:31:23 +0000

As for me – person who just made first steps in websites design it is just great stuff. Hope to see more articles like ths in the future.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:55:34 +0000

forgetting to close tags is indeed one of my most common mistakes. Nice tips

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:09:38 +0000

love it… I get messed up using php when the quotes go nuts.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:07:55 +0000

Google is not too… lmao

By: Ari

Ari — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:37:50 +0000

Nice

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:01:31 +0000

[quote]Name your divs specific things like #home-left-column which is better than just #left.[[/quote]

Others may have brought this up already, but I haven’t read all the comments before adding my .02 cents. Forgive me if this is redundant, but…

While I agree about using unique names for IDs and classes, I disagree with the naming convention you suggested. In the example given, it was suggested to name the ID as “#home-left-column.” again, I agree this is better than “#left,” but if you want to use this style over, then you have to fetch it by that name, even if the same styles are used in, say, the left footer column. In my opinion, it would be better to name it as, say, “#teaser1″ or “#hotspot” or even “#left-column” or anything that describes how it’s used or what it’s used for, just try to avoid naming according to where it’s used.

By: Chris Hester

Chris Hester — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:52:33 +0000

I disagree. I just tested A03 and it came up with the same colour as AA0033. Any pair of valid hex values can be shortened, from 0 to 9 and A to F.

By: NiteLabs

NiteLabs — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:03:42 +0000

@Using Shortened Color Declarations
Shortened color declaration can only be used for pairs: 00 33 66 99 CC FF.
Therefore, abbreviation 03F representing RGB hex colour value 0033FF is valid. However, A03 for AA0033 is not!

By: Andrew Pryde

Andrew Pryde — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:53:46 +0000

I was unsure of that. I hope it's the case becuase it makes sense for elements which don't contain content to be self-closing as the tags are not enclosing anything. Semantics and all that... @Prydie