Sure, spaces in an ˂a href˃ or ˂img src˃ make it invalid — but “invalid” doesn’t mean what you think it means!
Retracing how a web standard got rumor-milled into incorrect, anxiety-producing conventional wisdom. →
Transforming a Marketo ˂select˃ into a so-called “image dropdown” using ddSlick
Non-standard form elements add visual panache. But familiarity, accessibility and (especially) mobility remain concerns, so tread carefully. →
You gotta know when to ’encode em, know when to... not encode ’em
To truly understand encoding, you must know when it’s not needed. (A little Zen on top of Kenny Rogers.) →
What’s the deal with #mktoStyleLoaded?
About a little CSS trick that’s part of the Forms 2.0 Library. →
Disabling Custom CSS (added in the Forms 2.0 Editor) on a per-page basis
Here’s a way to turn off all Custom CSS rules in one fell swoop, with no need for selector overrides or !important. (Now you‘ll know the reason for the post on anonymous ˂style˃ tags!) →
Finding otherwise anonymous ˂style˃ elements using @namespace
You know 3rd-party libraries inject bare ˂style˃ tags into your ˂head˃, and you‘ve surely hard-coded such tags yourself. But how about when your code needs a reliable reference to one particular “anonymous local stylesheet”? →
Catching a few more (theoretical/conjectural) types of Marketo form load errors
Not saying these errors have ever happened in reality, but if your company demands full coverage you’ll want to account for them. →
Tagging each ˂label˃ with the type of its related input (for stylin’)
Need labels for checkboxes to look different from labels for radios and labels for selects? Here’s how that’s done. →