Month: November 2010

Using RGBA to Prevent the CSS Opacity Inheritance from Parent to Child Elements

This new solution deals with RGBA CSS3 backgrounds for Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome, Opera and Apple Safari and the Microsoft-proprietary DXImage gradient filters for Internet Explorer and may give you some new design ideas. Make sure you check the test page which I have created for this article…
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CSS Vocabulary

A useful refrence to the terminology of CSS. Do you find yourself unsure about the terms used? When asking for help forums, do you get got stuck wondering how exactly to describe the problem? This list will help to describe all the common terms of CSS…
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CSS Arrows and Shapes Without Markup

Often it’s useful to show an arrow or some sort of contextual indication of what element something is related to. We see this frequently with tooltips that use arrows to point to the item that is triggering them. Today I’m going to show you a way to add in these visual hints without having to […]
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CSS3 Memory

A game of memory in which you have to find three matching cards (as a tribute to the CSS level used for the transitions)…
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Pure CSS GUI Icons Experimental

An experiment that uses pseudo-elements to create 84 simple GUI icons using CSS and semantic HTML. Shared as an exercise in creative problem solving and working within constraints. This is not a “production ready” CSS icon set…
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CSS Box Shadow & Text Shadow Experiments

Using a little HTML and some CSS we take a trip to the dark side of the moon, create a periodical table and make a radioactive love concoction. We even throw some CSS animations in there to add to the party…
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CSS Positioning 101

If you’re a front end developer or a designer who likes to code, CSS-based layouts are at the very core of your work. In what might be a refresher for some, or even an “a-ha!” for others, let’s look at the CSS position property to see how we can use it to create standards-compliant, table-free […]
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Understanding CSS3 Transitions

We can start to use CSS3 transitions right now as long as we carefully choose the situations in which to use them. They certainly won’t replace existing technologies like Flash, JavaScript, or SVG (especially without broader browser support)—but they can be used to push the experience layer a notch higher. And most importantly, they’re relatively […]
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Getting Clever with CSS3 Shadows – Screencast

As soon as we detach a shadow from the element, itself, we can then transform the shadow in interesting and creative ways. This quick video tutorial will show you how…
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