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Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / June 2007Are backbuttons possible with CSS only?
I realize that CSS is a presentation tool only but it does surprise me sometimes e.g. pure css dropdown menus. All I've ever seen is javascript to accomplish this but that doesn't seem to really work well either. Is it just a bad idea? In article <1182732366.162097.244020@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, > I realize that CSS is a presentation tool only but it does surprise me > sometimes e.g. pure css dropdown menus. All I've ever seen is > javascript to accomplish this but that doesn't seem to really work > well either. Is it just a bad idea? In general, a back button is a bad idea because it unnecessarily duplicates a simple function that is widely known and incorporated into all browsers. And often in particular it is a bad idea because it is often not sophisticated enough to know that the user has somehow landed on that page without being at the page the js will direct to if used. The chrome is very reliable on this. Often the need for these sorts of menus and navigational aids is because the author has not provided really solid plain and simple navigation in the first place.  Signaturedorayme Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:46:06 -0700 from <paintedjazz@gmail.com>: > I realize that CSS is a presentation tool only but it does surprise me > sometimes e.g. pure css dropdown menus. All I've ever seen is > javascript to accomplish this but that doesn't seem to really work > well either. Is it just a bad idea? Yes, a "back button" is a bad idea. Virtually every browser already has one; why should you waste screen space on adding one that cannot possibly work better and probably will not work as well? SignatureStan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ validator: http://validator.w3.org/ CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ Why We Won't Help You: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you |
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