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CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator

csshead — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:33:47 +0000

CSS3, Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator…

CSS In Depth: Margins, Padding & The Box Model

csshead — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:59:08 +0000

In the first of the CSS In depth series, we’ll be talking about margins, padding and the box model. Margins and padding are some of the most widely used styles in CSS, but are often the source of frustration in cross-browser compatibility.

In this post, we’ll explain the difference between padding and margins, how the box model effects browsers and some tips and tricks dealing with cross-browser issues…

CSS3-Only Tabbed Area

csshead — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:01:53 +0000

When you think of “tabs”, your mind might go right to JavaScript. Watch for a click on a tab, hide all the panels, show the one corresponding to tab just clicked on. All major JavaScript libraries tackle tabs in some way. But there is a way to accomplish this same idea with “pure CSS”. Just as we did with the CSS Image Switcher, let’s tackle this traditionally JavaScript project with only CSS…

5 Advanced CSS Pseudo Classes

csshead — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:57:37 +0000

CSS3 provides powerful pseudo-classes that allow the designer to select multiple elements according to their positions in a document tree. Using these pseudo-classes can be a little confusing at first, but it becomes a lot easier over time to set up your layout. In today’s article I’m going to take a look at 5 pseudo-classes that will simplify our design process and reduces a lot of time to create a certain visual effects. You will also find demonstration below each point to demonstrate how we can use these selectors in different design scenario you face everyday in your designing process…

CSS text-indent: An Excellent Trick To Style Your HTML Form

csshead — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:32:32 +0000

You probably know what the text-indent property does in CSS. It’s a common CSS property allowing webmasters to indent paragraphs and hide text for image-based links. Text-indent does this great; however, it doesn’t just hide and indent text. It does more.

People mostly use text-indent to hide text like our example above. They often use the negative value for text-indent but forget to make use of its original intent: inset indentation. Here I’ll show you how to make a beautiful text field using text-indent…

Pure CSS Speech Bubbles

csshead — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:32:21 +0000

Speech bubbles are a popular effect but many tutorials rely on presentational HTML or JavaScript. This tutorial contains various forms of speech bubble effect created with CSS2.1 and enhanced with CSS3. No images, no JavaScript and it can be applied to your existing semantic HTML…

The Basics of CSS3

csshead — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:44:20 +0000

Last week I posted a CSS3 dropdown menu and someone complained that I didn’t explain the CSS code in detail. Well, here is a post on the basics of the new properties: text-shadow, box-shadow, and border-radius. These CSS3 properties are commonly used to enhance layout and good to know…

CSS3 Loading Spinners Without Images

csshead — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:42:10 +0000

While playing around with css-transform to make various shapes, I saw a way to create animated image-less loading spinners such as used in a lot of webapps and of course on the iPhone…

Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients

csshead — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:41:58 +0000

WebKit browsers paved the way with CSS based gradients. Now Firefox 3.6 is out and is supporting them as well, which makes using them for progressive enhancement all the more appealing. More good news, CSS3 gradients fall into the camp where you can specify fallbacks (i.e. images) so that browsers that don’t support them just use the image instead.

But wait… if you need to use an image anyway, why bother with declaring the gradient with CSS? That is kind of how I felt for a long time, but there is one important aspect that makes it worth it: browsers that support them don’t load the image fallback. One less HTTP Request = all the faster your site will load…

How to create drop caps with CSS and CSS3

csshead — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:57:52 +0000

Drop caps are a nice typographic detail that look great on many websites. There are a few ways of achieving this effect but the CSS selector I like to use is the :first-letter pseudo-element. This selector is reasonably well supported across most modern browsers albeit with a few minor bugs here and there. Here’s how it works…