20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS

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+ […]

Stopping the CSS positioning panic Part 1

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…

Pure CSS opacity and how to have opaque children

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…

CSS Fundamentals: Containing Children

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…

Four Sided PNG Drop Shadows with CSS

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 […]

CSS – Imageless Rounded Corners

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. […]

CSS String Truncation with Ellipsis

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…

Advanced CSS Printing Using CSS Page Breaks

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: Between page sections (h2 or h3 tags, depending on your site format) Between the end of an article and subsequent comments / trackbacks Between longs blocks of content Using page […]

Easy Tab Tutorial with CSS and jQuery – Tabbed Navigation

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…

CSS Pull Quotes

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 […]

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