Sexy Drop Down Menu with jQuery and CSS

Studies show that top navigations tend to get the most visual attention when a user first visits a site. Having organized and intuitive navigation is key — and while most drop down menus may look aesthetically pleasing, developing them to degrade gracefully is also essential. This tutorial shows how to create a sexy drop down […]

The Two Ways of Sizing Absolute Elements in CSS

Anyone who has used CSS for a while will know about the merits of absolute and relative positioning. To recap: position: relative allows an element to be shifted from its original position either horizontally (using left or right) or vertically (using top or bottom). position: absolute allows an element to be positioned with respect to […]

CSS: A tribute to selectors (attribute selectors)

Attribute selectors allow you to target an element based upon its “attribute”. You can target any element which has a specific attribute, for example all anchors which have a title attribute…

The CSS Box Model

Every element in web design is a rectangular box. Understanding this allows you to use CSS to bring your web designs to life. How is the size of the box calculated exactly? Here is a diagram…

The Shadow effect in CSS3

Shadow in website design is something that can be achieved by using CSS and images. The exciting new attribute in CSS3 is box-shadow. That allows you to get a nice shadow effect using just one attribute applied to a div…

Shorthand CSS: Margins

Writing Shorthand CSS is a great method of not only writing better code, but it also can reduce load times and speed up development time by almost halving the code to be written. There are different methods and types of shorthand CSS. These are covered in the following screencast and tutorial…

Everything You Need to Know About the !important CSS Declaration

The CSS !important declaration. This article will discuss what it is, how it’s declared, some practical uses for it, and drawbacks that need to be considered before implementing it…

Coding CSS Calendars with Lists and Sprites

A tutorial explaining how to code calendar using valid CSS, HTML and sprites…

Tabbed Navigation Using CSS

This tutorial will teach you how to create low-bandwidth tab navigation on a web page using CSS. As an extra bonus you’ll also learn how to switch tabs without loading the page more than once…

How To Put a Multi-Line Indent on a Styled Blockquote

This brief and easy tutorial provides a method to indent multiple lines of text around a background image on a styled blockquote element…

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