Firefox Addons for Web Development

Web development gets a lot easier when you use Firefox, which comes with an agreeable number of bells and whistles built in. However, it gets much better still when you install some of the addons that the Mozilla community has on offer. In particular, the following addons make the web developer’s life much easier.

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Cross-browser min-height

No IE, please

The min-height declaration is poorly understood by Internet Explorer. However, here’s a trick to force minimum height on a block element that works in all browsers:

height:auto !important;
height:200px;
min-height:200px;

This would set a min-height of 200px on all browsers. All browsers except IE6 will respect the !important flag and ignore the second height property, while IE6 will still use the second height property, then expand as needed.