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Texturise web type with CSS

csshead — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:12:57 +0000

WebKit browsers have a little-known CSS3 property that can be applied to text called mask-image. You can use it to knock out small textural pieces of headline text…

Enhance Required Form Fields with CSS3

csshead — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:12:44 +0000

A really interesting tutorial that uses CSS3 to make forms more usable…

Fighting the Space Between Inline Block Elements

csshead — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:33:08 +0000

Formatting links as a series of inline-block elements is an easy way to center align stuff e.g. a navigation menu. There’s one annoying issue and that’s the blank spaces that appear between elements. This article has several code examples that will remove the blank spaces from inline-block elements…

CSS Hexagon Tutorial

csshead — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:08:22 +0000

A tutorial describing how to create CSS Hexagons with step-by-step instructions…

CSS Regions

csshead — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:06:55 +0000

CSS regions allow content to flow through multiple elements allowing you to modify the standard flow of content and affect how content is grouped and displayed…

Pure CSS Clickable Events Without :target

csshead — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:03:01 +0000

All about CSS-only click events using just the :target method and no JavaScript. There’s a lot of cool stuff you can do with this method…

What’s the Deal With Display: Inline-Block?

csshead — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:24:00 +0000

One interesting alternative to floats that people are turning to more and more lately is to set the display value of an element to inline-block. What does this do exactly? How is it like a float? How is it different? Let’s dive in and see what we can discover…

Pragmatic, practical font sizing in CSS

csshead — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:22:06 +0000

An explanation of double-stranded heading hierarchy. This is the practice of defining a class every time you define a heading in CSS to allow for greater control of your typography…

Another CSS image replacement technique

csshead — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:19:32 +0000

A new image replacement technique was recently added to the HTML5 Boilerplate project. This post explains how it works and how it compares to alternative image replacement techniques…

CSS3 breadcrumbs

csshead — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:35:25 +0000

Breadcrumb navigation allows visitors to easily navigate through a site’s hierarchical structure. Here’s a tutorial with a few examples of CSS breadcrumb menus…