Spellcheck input boxes in Firefox 2.0
In case you were unaware, you can also enable spell checking in text inputs (the smaller, thinner inputs where you enter text like the search input on google.com) but it’s a little tricky: in your location bar enter about:config, scroll down to layout.spellcheck:Default, double click that line, change the 1 to a 2, and you’re done!
IE and Absolute Positioning
There are some seriously messed up things with absolute positioning in IE 6. I struggled and struggled tonight trying to get a logo to sit in the top left part of the #wrapper div:
#logo { position: absolute; }
#wrapper { position: relative; }
The logo was just not there. I ended up putting it in one of the main content columns, and it showed up in the right place (luckily, it also works in other browsers as well that way).
I couldn’t find much, if anything, useful about this behavior. Why do I always have some trouble with absolute positioning? Why aren’t more people blogging about this? Absolute positioning is supposed to be so easy that it’s considered cheating.
OLs in IE
If you set an OL LI to have height: 1% (to trigger has-layout) in IE, the number won’t increment. Freaky.
What is it called when you hit the back button and the browser remembers where you were scrolled to on the previous page?
There’s got to be a term for that. And Vanilla doesn’t do it right (at least pre 1.0).