Learn About Obscure CSS Properties
The Little Known font-size-adjust PropertyEver wanted to use fallback fonts on your CSS with different aspect ratios without them looking huge (or tiny)? The sparkling new CSS3
font-size-adjust property could do just that.
Demystifying CSS At-Rules
CSS at-rules (or @rules) are so-named because they utilize the ‘@’-character. They aren’t used as often as other CSS elements, and so it may be easy to overlook their function. If you’ve ever been confused about CSS at-rules, here’s a quick guide.
The CSS white-space Property Explained
CSS has a pretty useful property called
white-space that often goes unnoticed among CSS beginners. You can probably live without this property for quite some time, but once you learn how to use it, it will come in very handy and you’ll find yourself going back to it over and over again.
How nth-child Works
nth-child is one of those rather unfortunate CSS attributes that is caught between nearly full cross-browser compatibility, except for completely zero support in IE, even IE 8. By Chris Coyier.
The CSS3 :target Pseudo-class And CSS Animations
There are so many underused techniques that we could be applying to our designs as an enhancement layer. Let’s take a brief look into the
:target pseudo-class and a very simple CSS animation.
The space combinator
Combinators are an overlooked part of CSS development. Most juniors don’t even know they are making use of them, others are unaware of their full potential and let’s face it, even most professionals don’t really know about the ins and outs of css combinators. It’s all connected to that little piece of nothingness in between class names, so let’s start by taking a good look at the space (descendant) combinator.
Cross-Browser Inline-Block
Ah, inline-block, that elusive and oh so tempting display declaration that promises so much, yet delivers so little. An article explaining what inline-block is, how it works and what it is good for.
The Skinny on CSS Attribute Selectors
Single element has three attributes: ID, class, and rel. To select the element in CSS, you could use and ID selector (#first-title) or a class selector (.magical). But did you know you can select it based on that rel attribute as well? That is what is known as an attribute selector.
The Mysterious Pseudo Class in CSS
Pseudo classes let you control the CSS of stuff in different forms, states and places easily and efficiently, without taking up too much room. CSS3 is going to introduce many new pseudo classes, and they’re going to make our lives a lot easier (if you take browser compatibility out of the equation). They help both aesthetics and usability, and can make things that were once hard easier than ever before.
CSS Opacity: A Comprehensive Reference
This reference is going to provide a detailed overview of CSS opacity, along with some code examples and explanations to help you implement this useful CSS technique in your projects equally across all browsers. One thing that should be noted about CSS opacity is that, although it’s been in use for a number of years now, it has never been, and is currently not a standard property. It’s a non-standard technique that is supposed to be part of the CSS3 specification.
Visual Walkthrough of @font-face CSS Code
In step-by-step visual format, this article will show you what the code is doing and how to use it with your own custom fonts.
Taming Advanced CSS Selectors
The best way to avoid plagues spreading in your markup and keep it clean and semantic, is by using more complex CSS selectors, ones that can target specific elements without the need of a class or an id, and by doing that keep our code and our stylesheets flexible.
A Look at Some of the New Selectors Introduced in CSS3
Here is a run-down of just some of the things that is possible with CSS3 selectors. Of course, CSS3 isn’t supported at all by any IE browsers including IE8; but all latest versions of Safari, Firefox and Opera support most, if not all of them.
Useful CSS Techniques
Deal-breaker problems with CSS3 multi-columns“I’ve been playing around with the new multi-column properties of CSS3 (column-count, column-width, and so forth), and I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re sadly not ready to really use. I found that there’s not enough control over how the content is distributed between columns to make them reliable. I’m not sure if the browser behavior I’ve been seeing is correct or not; the spec is unfortunately not well defined enough to make it clear—at least to me—of how browsers ought to be handling some of the problems I ran across.”
Correcting Orphans with Overflow
“The
overflow property in CSS can be used in various ways and comes in handy when correcting bugs. Below are some tutorials that demonstrate how to clear up some common issues using the overflow property.”
CSS Sprites without Using Background Images
” The first approach in my mind was to do the typical CSS Sprites but this requires CSS work which my client did not know much of. I wanted to give him the access to update his affiliate banners using WordPress, and the simplest thing was to let him just upload his own images and put the URL in a custom field. No CSS tweaks involved, just what he needed.”
Center Multiple DIVs with CSS
At some point, you may have a situation where you want to center multiple elements (maybe
elements, or other block elements) on a single line in a fixed-width area. Centering a single element in a fixed area is easy. Just add margin: auto and a fixed width to the element you want to center, and the margins will force the element to center.
Different Stylesheets for Differently Sized Browser Windows
Otherwise known as “resolution dependent layouts”. Single website, different CSS files for rearranging a website to take advantage of the size available. There is a W3C standard way of declaring them.
The New Clearfix Method
The clearfix hack, or “easy-clearing” hack, is a useful method of clearing floats. The original clearfix hack works great, but the browsers that it targets are either obsolete or well on their way.
Preload Images with CSS, JavaScript, or Ajax
“Preloading images definitely helps users without broadband enjoy a better experience when viewing your content. In this article, we’ll explore three different preloading techniques to enhance the performance and usability of your site.”
How to Center an Absolutely Positioned Element Using CSS
“Centering an absolutely positioned element is a CSS challenge that occurs now and then. The solutions seem obvious once I’ve done it, but I still find myself googling the problem every few months.”
Wrapping Long URLs and Text Content with CSS
To wrap long URLs, strings of text, and other content, just apply this carefully crafted chunk of CSS code to any block-level element (e.g., perfect for
-based layouts when the need for vertical center arises. That’s too bad. Whilst CSS vertical center can get [very] complicated at times, I believe that learning various techniques for archiving it is beneficial and once you get a hang of it, you’ll do it just as anything else with CSS.Robust Vertical Text Layout Few formatting systems today can handle vertical text layout, and most of those only lay out text in right-to-left columns. This document outlines a system that can not only handle common scripts in vertical right-to-left columns, but that can gracefully accept uncommon script combinations and left-to-right text columns. The model is described here as a CSS system, but the concepts can apply to non-CSS systems as well.
Different Stylesheets for Differently Sized Browser Windows
Otherwise known as “resolution dependent layouts”. Single website, different CSS files for rearranging a website to take advantage of the size available. There is a W3C standard way of declaring them.
The New Clearfix Method
The clearfix hack, or “easy-clearing” hack, is a useful method of clearing floats. The original clearfix hack works great, but the browsers that it targets are either obsolete or well on their way.
Preload Images with CSS, JavaScript, or Ajax
“Preloading images definitely helps users without broadband enjoy a better experience when viewing your content. In this article, we’ll explore three different preloading techniques to enhance the performance and usability of your site.”
How to Center an Absolutely Positioned Element Using CSS
“Centering an absolutely positioned element is a CSS challenge that occurs now and then. The solutions seem obvious once I’ve done it, but I still find myself googling the problem every few months.”
Wrapping Long URLs and Text Content with CSS
To wrap long URLs, strings of text, and other content, just apply this carefully crafted chunk of CSS code to any block-level element (e.g., perfect for
tags).
Unconventional: CSS3 Link Checking
An interesting solution of finding empty links on a web page. Only CSS3 in use.
Getting Buggy CSS Selectors to Work Cross-Browser via jQuery
Although
the lack of cross-browser CSS selector support has caused a number of
useful CSS selectors to go almost unnoticed, developers can still
manipulate styles on their pages using some of these little-used
selectors through jQuery.
“Checkmark” Your Visited Links with Pure CSS
The
goal of this tutorial is to get a check mark preceding visited links
for a nice visual indicator. The article will be targeting the
a:visited pseudo class, but it also includes information on the other
anchor pseudo classes.Reorganize visited links with CSS3 flexible box model
An
interesting technique that uses flexible box model (box, box-flex,
box-ordinal-group), generated content (:before, :after) and :not and
:first-of-type selectors to reorganize visited links on the page.
Vertical Centering
Vertical
centering with CSS seems to be a large obsticle in the Web design world
and I notice a lot of people favor
