On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:36:11PM +1100, Ian Wienand wrote:
> Does anyone have any debugging tips for this sort of thing?  My
> current technique consists mostly of guessing what should be
> happening!

Firebug is apparently the gold standard, but I've never used it (one day I
will!).  I use the Web Developers Toolbar (another Firefox extension) which
has this nifty "View Style Information" command (Ctrl-Shift-Y) -- you just
click on anything and the CSS styles that apply to that element get
displayed in a separate window, in precedence order.  You just read them
going down the page, and last specification of a particular attribute wins,
so to speak.

I'd imagine Firebug probably has that option as well, so don't take my
recommendation over that of the rest of the web-hacking community.  Firebug
does seem to be the winner, based on size of noisy userbase.

- Matt

-- 
A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge
the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased -- he hates
all creative people equally.
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