Posted: 3 years ago in Articles
Forms do not have to be boring and ugly, they too can be beautiful. With the proper understanding of each element (radio buttons, checkboxes, textareas..), CSS know-how, a little patience and some creativity you can make your forms beautiful. Throw in, the always important, semantics and accessibilty and things can get tricky.
Here are 20+ resources and tutorials for deisgning creative forms with CSS…
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Posted: 3 years ago in Tutorials
CSS positioning is quite easy. I guess no-one explained it plain and simple before.
The first part this post will focus on the four types of CSS positioning: static, relative, absolute and fixed. The second part will focus on the float property that is obviously related to an element’s position in our site…
Read More: Stopping the CSS positioning panic Part 1
Posted: 3 years ago in Tutorials
Opacity is a desirable thing in this day and age; especially with the design trends that typified the web2.0 movement. Here are two different methods of achieving CSS opacity. One where the children inherit the opacity, the other where content can have its own opacity level…
Posted: 3 years ago in Tutorials
An article for CSS beginners that explains the mysteries of forcing parent divs to contain their children. Two methods are described – overflow: hidden, and clearfix…
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Posted: 3 years ago in Tutorials
In the PNG Drop Shadows article we explored a new CSS method that uses the PNG image format to apply drop shadows to any arbitrary box, producing excellent looking shadows. That’s great, but the method limits us to having shadows on just two sides of the content box. Clients aren’t going to be satisfied with that stricture for very long, so we need to pump up our shadows to cover all four sides of the box, just in case…
Read More: Four Sided PNG Drop Shadows with CSS
Posted: 3 years ago in Tutorials
Over the past few years, many web designers have decided rounded-corners improve the layout/usability of their sites. Typically, two techniques are used: using background images with layered elements or simulating rounded corners with elements inserted via JavaScript. Both techniques have a drawback, requiring extra load time for images to download or for JavaScript to execute. It would be nice if browsers had built in CSS support handling the rounding of corners. Fortunately, CSS3 will include a “border-radius” rule to specify how to handle corner rounding. Although no browsers fully support CSS3 yet, there are browser specific rules implementing the CSS3 rounded corners…
Read More: CSS – Imageless Rounded Corners
Posted: 3 years ago in Tutorials
Truncation on the server-side is unnecessary, complicated, and usually confusing to the user. Luckily, CSS offers a combination of properties to truncate strings and add ellipsis… on the client-side, without JavaScript…
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Posted: 3 years ago in Code
Here’s an article explaining how to make your pages printer-friendly by using CSS/XHTML page breaks.
There are numerous spots that are good for page breaks:
Using page breaks in CSS is simple…
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Posted: 3 years ago in Tutorials
There are quite a few tutorials out there that demonstrate how to create tabs with CSS and jQuery. Here’s one that’s easy to understand even for a beginner…
Read More: Easy Tab Tutorial with CSS and jQuery – Tabbed Navigation
Posted: 3 years ago in Tutorials
Pull quotes are commonly used in print publications to draw emphasis to a particular quote or excerpt from a document, typically placing it in a larger typeface nearby on the page. When creating a well formed HTML document, pullquotes introduce a challenge in that they require a passage of text to be repeated on the page. This has the potential to introduce confusion when the document is read without the accompanying style sheet. Ideally then, a pullquote should be considered a stylistic element and as such should be seperated from the document itself and rendered with a stylesheet.
Since techniques to hide portions of a webpage rely on using CSS or JavaScript, we’ll need to approach this problem from the other direction – in this case using CSS to display new content. In this tutorial we’ll place the pullquote text in the title attribute of a paragraph or page division, and use the :before pseudo element’s ability to generate content to display the pullquote on the page…
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