Removing the Flash, Image, Anchor, Etc. Dotted Outline

Ever have that annoying dotted outline around your flash or image? You know, the one around your anchor links that you ignore most of the time…ever have someone tell you to take it off and not know how?

It happens to the best of us. It’s the annoying dotted outline (dotted line) that we don’t even think about until we have to launch a product.

What does the dotted outline look like?

Just so we’re clear about what the dotted outline looks like, here’s an example:

Dotted Outline

The Solution

And now, here’s how you’re going to get rid of it for your flash piece:

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object {
outline: none;
}


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States and provinces code for HTML form dropdown

States and Provinces code for HTML form drop down, just to make life simple & easy.

Doing YOU this favor, saving you some time and posting this for YOU, my readers. I only hope that it saves you time. To further that along, I’m posting different versions of it, in different posts of course!

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<select id="state" name="state" size="1">
<option value="">Please select State or Province</option>
<option value="AL">Alabama</option>
<option value="AK">Alaska</option>
<option value="AB">Alberta</option>
<option value="AZ">Arizona</option>
<option value="AR">Arkansas</option>
<option value="BC">British Columbia</option>
<option value="CA">California</option>
<option value="CO">Colorado</option>
<option value="CT">Connecticut</option>
<option value="DE">Delaware</option>
<option value="DC">District of Columbia</option>
<option value="FL">Florida</option>
<option value="GA">Georgia</option>
<option value="HI">Hawaii</option>
<option value="ID">Idaho</option>
<option value="IL">Illinois</option>
<option value="IN">Indiana</option>
<option value="IA">Iowa</option>
<option value="KS">Kansas</option>
<option value="KY">Kentucky</option>
<option value="LA">Louisiana</option>
<option value="ME">Maine</option>
<option value="MB">Manitoba</option>
<option value="MD">Maryland</option>
<option value="MA">Massachusetts</option>
<option value="MI">Michigan</option>
<option value="MN">Minnesota</option>
<option value="MS">Mississippi</option>
<option value="MO">Missouri</option>
<option value="MT">Montana</option>
<option value="NE">Nebraska</option>
<option value="NV">Nevada</option>
<option value="NB">New Brunswick</option>
<option value="NH">New Hampshire</option>
<option value="NJ">New Jersey</option>
<option value="NM">New Mexico</option>
<option value="NY">New York</option>
<option value="NL">Newfoundland and Labrador</option>
<option value="NC">North Carolina</option>
<option value="ND">North Dakota</option>
<option value="NT">Northwest Territories</option>
<option value="NS">Nova Scotia</option>
<option value="NU">Nunavut</option>
<option value="OH">Ohio</option>
<option value="OK">Oklahoma</option>
<option value="ON">Ontario</option>
<option value="OR">Oregon</option>
<option value="PA">Pennsylvania</option>
<option value="PE">Prince Edward Island</option>
<option value="PR">Puerto Rico</option>
<option value="QC">Quebec</option>
<option value="RI">Rhode Island</option>
<option value="SK">Saskatchewan</option>
<option value="SC">South Carolina</option>
<option value="SD">South Dakota</option>
<option value="TN">Tennessee</option>
<option value="TX">Texas</option>
<option value="UT">Utah</option>
<option value="VT">Vermont</option>
<option value="VA">Virginia</option>
<option value="WA">Washington</option>
<option value="WV">West Virginia</option>
<option value="WI">Wisconsin</option>
<option value="WY">Wyoming</option>
<option value="YT">Yukon</option>
</select>

I like you, I think I’ll let you download it at the following link:


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Need help with CSS sprites?

Do you want to know more about CSS sprites? Do you know what CSS sprites are? Are you Lost?

Well, not a lot of people do (know what CSS sprites are, that is). I only know about them because I’m a genius and I know everything. But that’s not what this post is about, it’s about CSS sprites.

Rather than explain, I found this nice little post for you. It gets the job done so I’m outsourcing the remainder of this post to this site:  Mystery of CSS Sprites