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By Andy | February 27th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Now I really do need to blog about this before someone else casts me in a bad light. I’ve been coding on a Mac now for about 6 years. One of the more annoying aspects of coding with CSS is the lack of a # key on the keyboard - laugh it up PC peeps.

Anyway, it was only last week. 6 years after first starting out on the development road that someone pointed out you have to just press ‘Alt 3′ and hey presto, more # keys than you can shake a stick at.

Thanks Drew.
How shameful!

CATEGORY: Coding, css, html, mac

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naveen

February 29th, 2008 @ 8:01 pm

if you had my keyboard-from-the-future, you wouldn’t have this problem. ‘#’, ‘£’, you name it - all easy to access.

DrewPreston

March 4th, 2008 @ 4:18 pm

I’ve been using a Mac for only a few months. Come on Andy! Drink more caffeine :-)

Andy

March 4th, 2008 @ 4:21 pm

It’s bad, I know.

DrewPreston

March 5th, 2008 @ 9:24 am

Alt 3 or should I say Hash #

I’ve only recently starting using a Mac so imagine my joy when I got to teach a Mac veteran something. Ok it wasn’t anything that impressive but it made me laugh so I thought I’d share it with all of you. The Mac keyboards don’t…

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