Roberto Lage's Public Library

1. Vertical centering with line-height

line-height:24px;

When you have a container with fixed height you can use line-height property to vertically center the content.

Take a look at this demo.

2. Prevent oversized content to break fixed width floated layouts

#main{
	overflow:hidden;
}

When oversized content (i.e. wide image) is placed in fixed width floated container, it may break the layout. To prevent that use this trick. It will hide a part of the content but at least your layout structure will remain intact.

I wrote an article about it a while back.

3. Prevent line breaks in links

a{
	white-space:nowrap;
}

This little trick will prevent line breaks on your links. I recommend using this with long text to avoid having links break into 2 lines.

4. Always show Firefox scrollbar

html{
	overflow:-moz-scrollbars-vertical;
}

Firefox hides vertical scrollbar by default. So, when you browse a site that have different page heights you notice a horizontal shift. This code will always display a scrollbar and prevent shifting.

5. Centering block elements horizontally

margin:0 auto;

For all modern browser this line of css is enough to horizontally center a block level element.

6. Remove vertical textarea scrollbar in IE

textarea{
	overflow:auto;
}

Textareas in IE have vertical scrollbar visible by default. If you want those removed (I know I do) use this line.

7. Force page breaks when printing your document

h2{
	page-break-before:always;
}

With this line of code you can control places where you want your pages to break when printing a document.

8. Remove active link borders

a:active, a:focus{
	outline:none;
}