CSS Tutorial: Tricks and Tips

Think About Non-CSS Browsers

Fortunately, the passage of time has pretty much taken care of this issue as the majority of browsers support CSS. One very nice thing about style sheets, if used properly non-css compliant browsers will still display formatted content, somewhat. Of course it will not be as nice and fancy as a CSS browser, but something will still show, and no error messages. By far the most annoying aspect of JavaScripts. You cannot sneak an error by there.

You can let the non-css browsers know that you are using style sheets. A good way of doing this is using the display: none command. I have done that on some of my pages, if it shows up than you are not fully css-compliant.

Also when you are formatting your page try to format in such a way that non-CSS browsers will still maintain some formatting, such as using headers. Using appropiate headers in their appropiate spots will still enlarge, and bold font when appropiate. The non-CSS browser will not show the font or color or alignment you assigned but it will still show some formatting.

Only using SPAN and DIV will not show any special formatting to non-CSS browsers.

This displays:

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H1 tags were used around to so non-CSS browsers will still see a header type tag, just not the coloring or box.