If you have ever been to my website, you know that I do not use the css outline offset property anymore.
One of the reasons I stopped using it was because I was too lazy to remember to use it all the time. It also breaks the look of the page.
If you are using the css outline offset in your stylesheet then the outline will go right up to the edge of your element. When that edge is moved up above the line you created, your element will be cut off from the rest of the page.
It’s not just lazy web developers who need to learn something new. It’s also web designers who need to learn something new. We were all taught that the CSS outline offset property was a bad thing. If you want to use CSS to move an element up over the line that you made, you need to put it on a new line.
CSS is really a good example of making web design more accessible to everyone. In this case, it’s accessibility because it’s in the way the rest of the page is laid out. The CSS outline offset property is a new way to do it. It’s a tool for web designers to make it easier for anyone to learn what CSS is doing, and to get the job done.
So CSS outline is a new way of moving an element up or down over the line that you made. But, like a lot of things CSS, it has a bunch of good and bad points. One of the bad points is that it can get you in trouble with IE users. Why? Well, if you create a horizontal scrollbar, then IE will have to scroll down to see the element that you’re moving. That’s not the kind of thing you want to do on IE.
The good news is that IE users are generally pretty forgiving. You can usually make the element show up on a larger screen, and you can make it disappear by using a little JavaScript. CSS outline is a good thing to have in your toolbox. It can help you get your designs to look nice and clear so that it doesnt look like your design has a scrollbar.
The reason why there should be a vertical scrollbar is that it will change the height of the element. We don’t want to change it with the div element. IE would not want to change CSS. If you really want to change the height of any element, use CSS gradients. Just like CSS gradients on top and bottom.
The problem is when you’re on autopilot for so long that you forget you’re at the top of the screen, then you can’t control the height of the element. If you’re on autopilot for about a minute and you’re aware of your own habits, routines, impulses, and reactions, then you can’t control the height of the element.
I dont think its a good idea to have css outline offset for most websites, not because you cannot control it, but because people on autopilot tend to be very sloppy. This is not a good thing. If you have a website that is not in sync with the styles you should use css outline offset.
