CSS Curiosities of the Past

The ebbs and flows of the web have gotten us to where we stand today. We simply wouldn’t have the web we do without the journey it has taken us to get here. However, some of the steps it has taken to get here have been interesting to say the least. CSS is how we style things on the web, but since its inception it has been made, on occasion, to wear a few more hats. It has taken on odd roles and picked up behaviours it probably ought not to have. Such is life. As I’ve detailed odd and context-specific HTML, this is a look at CSS largely outside the specifications. Browser-specific hacks, technology-scoped syntax, and engine-exclusive snippets forged from questionable circumstances, corporate complications, and esoteric implementations. Property Parsing width: 300px; *width: 250px; _width: 200px; -width: 200px; Most browsers, correctly, would treat a property prefixed with an asterisk as invalid. However, Internet Explorer 7 and earlier would treat it as valid. It was so famous it…