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CSS pointer-events and a pure CSS3 animating tooltip

csshead — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:09:54 +0000

CSS only tooltips with a nice CSS3 transition for fade in/out…

CSS: reset or normalize?

csshead — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:07:30 +0000

An interesting article exploring the pros and cons of using CSS reset and CSS normalize in your projects…

CSSmatic – CSS Tools

csshead — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:56 +0000

CSSmatice currently has 4 tools that enable you to generate CSS code for gradients, border-radiuses, noise textures and box shadows…

Pure CSS Modals

csshead — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:36:51 +0000

CSS Modal is built out of pure CSS. JavaScript is only for sugar. This makes them perfectly accessible. A few other advantages: accessible, cross-browser, media-adaptive, small and fast…

Making accessible icon buttons

csshead — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:10:25 +0000

An article exploring the alternatives for creating clickable icons with accessibility in mind…

Clown Car Technique for Responsive Images

csshead — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:35:00 +0000

We can use media queries within SVG to serve up the right image. The beauty of the “Clown Car” technique is that all the logic remains in the SVG file. It’s called the “Clown Car” technique since we are including (or stuffing) many images (clowns) into a single image file (car)…

Font Icon Stacks

csshead — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:15:06 +0000

Icon fonts are great but they only work in a single color. Here’s an ingenious way to create multi-colored scalable graphics using icon fonts…

There’s more to the CSS rem unit than font sizing

csshead — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:12:26 +0000

Many web designers and developers are familiar with the CSS rem length unit. This article describes a couple of couple of handy alternate uses of the rem element that you may not have thought of…

CSS Creatures

csshead — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:12:11 +0000

CSS Creatures allows you to simply send out a tweet with your chosen characteristics, and, in less than 20 seconds, your new friend will appear among his siblings…

Typeplate – A typographic starter kit

csshead — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:08:33 +0000

Typeplate is a “typographic starter kit”. It’s open-source and aims to help you build beautiful typography into your websites…