CSS
ShadedBorder Updated
Steffen Rusitschka has released an update to ShadedBorder. You can now use gradients and the library degrades gracefully. You can see this all at work: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
var linksBord ....... read more
Mon,
22 Oct 2007
CSS Vertical Bar Graphs
Eric Meyer has been keeping a secret since 2005 about CSS Vertical Bar Graphs. Well, not really, but it is good that he has come out with a nifty demo on how you can make this: PLAIN TEXT HTML:
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Mon,
15 Oct 2007
Sass-y Dynamic CSS
Geoffrey Grosenbach gets all funky when he discusses dynamic CSS using the Sass engine that comes with HAML. It allows you to: Nesting If you are sick of repeating yourself, you can get dry and nest y ....... read more
Mon,
01 Oct 2007
Search for the Holy Mail (template)
Glen Lipka has been frustrated with the task of producing quality HTML email that works across various email clients, which of course got even harder when Outlook 2007 took email design back a few yea ....... read more
Mon,
01 Oct 2007
CSS Sprite Generator Released
Stuart Collville and Ed Eliot just launched a new CSS Sprite Generator tool, which is the first of many in a series of web-site performance tools.
For the uninitiated, a CSS Sprite is a single image ....... read more
Fri,
28 Sep 2007
CSSVista: Tweak CSS and see it in IE and Firefox at the same time
CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. The software is brought to us by the authors of ....... read more
Fri,
21 Sep 2007
CSS 3 and where we could be
Alex keeps it up by discussing how CSS 3 is a giant serving of fail. Alex believes that in 2007 you should be able to do things like this in CSS: PLAIN TEXT CSS:
.highlight {
colo ....... read more
Fri,
21 Sep 2007
Curl.js: Curl your images
Christian Effenberger has a new effect for you to use. With Curl.js you can add a page curl effect (including backside mask) to images on your web pages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your co ....... read more
Tue,
18 Sep 2007
Should we use CSS frameworks?
Last month, we posted about the Blueprint YAML CSS frameworks and reactions to the frameworks were mixed. Some folks absolutely loved it while others considered them a crutch for non-CSS savvy devel ....... read more
Wed,
12 Sep 2007
YUI Dom Collection?s Region methods to the rescue!
One of the reasons I like reading articles by Christian Heilmann is because of his innovative solutions to common problems and his ability to clearly explain the rationale behind the solutions. I was ....... read more
Wed,
12 Sep 2007
A Cheaky Way to Style an input type=?file?
Shaun Inman has got a lovely little hack that allows you to style file inputs with CSS and the DOM. These elements are notoriously painful to deal with, and now we have select boxed playing nice on IE ....... read more
Wed,
12 Sep 2007
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Understanding CSS floating
One of the hardest concepts to grasp in CSS is how to float elements. In order to create a good layout you need to understand this concept in order to know how your elements will be handled within the ....... read more
Fri,
07 Sep 2007
YAML the CSS framework
When I first saw an email from Dirk Jesse about YAML, I was instantly in Ruby mode. Then as I read I realised that he was talking about a totally different YAML, his own CSS framework Yet Another Mul ....... read more
Thu,
30 Aug 2007
Learning from Gmail
We can always learn from popular Ajax applications such as Gmail. In fact, browser vendors often fill their test suite with some of the big sites out there, and groan when they have to implement a bug ....... read more
Thu,
23 Aug 2007
The Future of CSS and the end of 3.0
We have all been frustrated with CSS over the years. The implementation has been spotty across the browsers, and it has all but died off. IE 7 stepped up and fixed a lot, even if some werent happy wi ....... read more
Sun,
19 Aug 2007
CSS Keys, and the search for the right Sprite
Glen Lipka wanted an easier way to manage the "one big matrix image that CSS uses to chop up to display pieces" technique, and wrote about the right sprite where he delves into various cleaner workaro ....... read more
Mon,
13 Aug 2007
pzImageCombine: One image for CSS clipping
Various people have documented the clipping technique of taking one large image, and showing a piece of it in a particular place, thus combining X numbers of images into one download. Alexander Graef ....... read more
Wed,
01 Aug 2007
Conflicting Absolute Positions
Rob Swan has a new article about Conflicting Absolute Positions that delves into the realization that conflicting absolute values for top, left, right, bottom, result in browsers stretching their cont ....... read more
Thu,
19 Jul 2007
DOMDom: More DOM, Less DOM
Zach Leatherman has created another DOM creation class, DOMDom, (with support for HTML Fragments) that uses
the CSS query language. But instead of using the language to query nodes, it is used to crea ....... read more
Thu,
12 Jul 2007
CSS Selectors - Speed Myths
Jack Slocum has continued the CSS Selector trend by taking another look at the various frameworks and dispelling some CSS Selectors Speed Myths. Jack talks about the various approaches, comparing Fire ....... read more
Wed,
11 Jul 2007