Division By Zero

Updated: How To Beat Form Spam With Just CSS

These days it seems like as soon as you launch a new site with a form on it, you’re getting spammed.

So I thought today that I would share with you a method for beating spam bots that I’ve been using for nearly 3 years and works consistently.

It’s been incredibly effective, doesn’t carry the usability issues and implementation hassles of something like CAPTCHA, and uses nothing more than a bit of CSS.

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CSS Dropdowns Part 3: CSS3 To The Rescue

Welcome to the third and final part of our look at CSS dropdown navigation.

Part 1 looked at the problems with pure CSS dropdowns and why they shouldn’t be used.

Part 2 introduced DropEm v0.1, a new jQuery plugin designed to make it easy to create flexible, accessible and usable dropdown menus.

Now in part 3, I’m going to revisit the issues from part 1 and show you how CSS3 can be used to overcome them, removing the need for Javascript.

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CSS Dropdowns Part 2: A jQuery Solution

Yesterday in part 1, I told you about 2 major problems with implementing pure CSS dropdown navigation.

I also promised to share with you a great new JQuery plugin which will solve these problems and allow better control over your dropdowns.

So I’m pleased to announce the release of version 0.1 of DropEm.

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CSS Dropdowns Part 1: The 2 Big Problems With CSS Dropdowns

Back in 2004 I think, when I first learned to create dropdown menus with nothing more than CSS and some nested HTML, I was amazed. I’d never considered before that CSS could be used for anything but the most basic of front-end styling and functionality.

Early in my career however, I quickly realised that there were two major issues with the way that CSS dropdowns worked.

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