John Kurlak's Blog
This is my blog on web development and computer science.
Filling the remaining height of a container while handling overflow in CSS (IE8+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
The issue I want to have a container with two elements inside of it, stacked on top of each other. I...
Date: 02/20/2015
Vertically Centering Multiple Lines of Text in CSS
It used to be pretty difficult to vertically center a paragraph of text within its container using...
Date: 05/13/2014
Hiding Vertical Scrollbars with Pure CSS in Chrome, IE (6+), Firefox, Opera, and Safari
I just spent the past day trying to figure out the best way to hide scrollbars using pure CSS in the...
Date: 11/03/2013
JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet Not Working?
Today, I got the following error: This request has been blocked because sensitive information could...
Date: 01/17/2013
Detecting if the User has Set Your Website as His or Her Homepage (IE-only)
I learned today that Internet Explorer has an API for detecting whether the user has set your...
Date: 01/15/2013
Distinguishing between min-height and height in CSS
Suppose we set the height of the body of a page to be 100%. Then what happens is that the body's...
Date: 12/13/2012
Expanding a Column to Fill the Remaining Horizontal Space
When you have two columns on a page, there is a pretty simple (though non-obvious) way to make the...
Date: 09/18/2012
Making An Element Fill 100% Height In Pure CSS
A common problem that web developers have is trying to make an element span 100% of its parent...
Date: 09/12/2012
Awesome PNG Compression Tool
Compressing images can save a lot of valuable bandwidth. One tool I really like for compressing...
Date: 08/28/2012
Opening the Internet Explorer Developer Tools Dialog on Modal Windows
As you may have noticed, Internet Explorer's Developer Tools window (press F12 to get there) cannot...
Date: 08/27/2012