53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Isn’t it great? Well, actually, it is.

Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time – of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-architects, really couldn’t live without. They are essential and they indeed make our life easier. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. Links checked: June/11 2008.

You might want to take a look at the article Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding.

1. CSS Based Navigation

2. Navigation Matrix Reloaded

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3. CSS Tabs

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4. CSS For Bar Graphs

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5. Collapsing Tables: An Example

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6. Adam’s Radio & Checkbox Customisation Method

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7. CSS Image Replacement

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8. CSS Shadows (CSS Shadows Roundup)
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9. CSS Rounded Corners Roundup (Nifty Corners)

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10. Drop Cap – Capital Letters with CSS
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11. Define Image Opacity with CSS
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12. How to Create a Block Hover Effect for a List of Links

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13. Pullquotes with CSS (Automatic Pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS

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14.CSS Diagrams
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15. CSS Curves

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16. Footer Stick allows for the footer of a Web page to appear either at the bottom of the browser window or the bottom of the Web page content – whichever is visually lowest.