CSS
CSS and Tables; The war continues
Time for a bit of fun. The eternal battle of tables vs. CSS layouts continues. We geeks have had classics such as vi vs. emacs, and Star Wars vs. Star Trek.
First up we have giveupandusetables.com:
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10 days ago
CSS3 ASCII Layouts, Element Transversals, and Gotchas
John Resig has been a busy guy posting today not once but thrice! They all interesting too.
I really enjoyed the CSS3 Template Layout post that reminds us of the CSS 3 advanced layout that allows you ....... read more
11 days ago
CSSHttpRequest: cross-domain Ajax using CSS for transport.
XHR is so 1997. Now it is time for some CSSHttpRequest action, a device that allows you to run cross domain Ajax requests thanks to a CSS hack:
Similar to JavaScript, this works because CSS is not ....... read more
Fri,
24 Oct 2008
display: table, table-cell, table-row, and how we get closer to nicer CSS
Rachel Andrew has done a great job taking another look at the CSS display ability to use table layouts, that IE 8 has now implemented:
When released, Internet Explorer 8 will support many new value ....... read more
Thu,
23 Oct 2008
Peppy: New CSS 3 selector engine
James Donaghue has released Peppy, the first release of his CSS 3 compliant selector engine that runs independent of one particular library (and can thus be used with any of them).
He has some bold cl ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
Great JavaScript and CSS Menu Libraries
Noupe is doing a good job cataloging content, such as their post on great JavaScript CSS menu libraries which features:
Sexy Sliding Menu - Andrew Sellick decided to use mootools due to the smooth ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
CSS Systems: Maintaining your style
Natalie Downe gave a talk at BarCamp London on CSS Systems as a wait to maintain your style. She goes into details on how she goes about setting up her CSS on a project:
A CSS System is a reusable ....... read more
Mon,
29 Sep 2008
Maintaining Browser Specific CSS
Nick Cairns saw our post on conditional CSS for browsers and followed up discussing how he handles maintaining IE specific CSS selectors:
We keep our IE related styling right below the common (stan ....... read more
Fri,
26 Sep 2008
CSS Transforms: First WebKit, now Gecko too!
We discussed the WebKit CSS transforms that allow you to scale, transform, skew, and do matrix work through simple CSS.
Mozilla has stepped up and Keith Schwarz posted on CSS transform support in Fir ....... read more
Mon,
15 Sep 2008
Tip: Using a background image on an image
Pascal Opitz answered the question "Can you set an image background on an image element?" in simple fashion.
All you have to do is make sure that the image is display: block and has a padding.
He put ....... read more
Mon,
15 Sep 2008
You are not alone. None of the rest of us can fathom CSS either.
Dave Minter is obviously frustrated, which lead him to write You are not alone. None of the rest of us can fathom CSS either.
He goes on a little rant that covers:
Curvy corners
Vertical floats
For ....... read more
Thu,
11 Sep 2008
Firefox implements 3 CSS properties: text-shadow, -moz-box-shadow and -moz-column-rule
Michael Ventnor has blogged about the new support for text-shadow, -moz-box-shadow and -moz-column-rule which follows on with Safari and Opera. The subtle effects really add a great touch when NOT us ....... read more
Tue,
02 Sep 2008
CSS Sprites2: Return of the JS
In March 2004, Dave Shea wrote about CSS Sprites, and now he is back with CSS Sprites 2. He walks us through using JavaScript to make this all work nicely, and picks jQuery to get 'er done:
After p ....... read more
Mon,
01 Sep 2008
Towards Using Custom Fonts
A little while ago, we talked about the two competing custom font technologies for the Web: linking and "embedding" (aka EOT). With Firefox about to implement support for linking à la Safari, John All ....... read more
Wed,
27 Aug 2008
Using CSS to do the print watermark technique
Andy Pemberton has put together a simple solution to get the watermark technique to work nicely with print CSS.
Check out the sample and pull up a print preview. He details the good, bad, and ugly:
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Wed,
27 Aug 2008
Sizzle: John Resig has a new selector engine
John Resig is working on a new selector engine called Sizzle:
This is a new selector engine that Im working on.
Its a work in progress! Not ready for use yet!
Its definitely not ready yet (got s ....... read more
Mon,
25 Aug 2008
querySelectorAll is coming fast
We have all been talking about querySelectAll for awhile, but John Resig gives us a wrap-up that covers the state of play.
He talks about the browsers, and the libraries that wrap them and clean up s ....... read more
Thu,
21 Aug 2008
The lessons of CSS frameworks
Jeremy Keith has been doing a great job blogging An Event Apart, and his writeup of The Lessons of CSS Frameworks by Eric Meyer caught my eye.
Eric took a look at the most popular CSS frameworks (960, ....... read more
Wed,
20 Aug 2008
Transformie: Implement WebKit CSS transforms in IE
Paul Bakaus, or jQuery UI fame, has created a nice little hack to implement WebKit CSS transforms in IE
When you include the library, it can scan for your -webkit-transform-* transforms (soon to su ....... read more
Mon,
18 Aug 2008
border-image: No more cutting up hell
Remember when you wanted a growable area with rounded-goodness and you had to cut up the image into a million pieces to have the top corners and the sides? Since then we have gotten nice effects to he ....... read more
Wed,
13 Aug 2008