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You could say I’ve become somewhat obsessed with @font-face embedding over the past few months. I’ve most certainly fell head over heels for the @font-face generator from fontsquirrel.com see the recap below.One thing however that has always bothered me is IE7 and IE8′s rendering of embedded fonts, so today with IE tester at hand and google ready to get wild I vowed to come up with a solution and I think I may just have…

When people are asked about features they would like to CSS, “variables” always seems to come up. Whether or not this is a good idea is still something I personally haven’t decided on, but I’d lean toward yes. Regardless, using PHP, it is trivially easy to use variables in CSS. This is certainly not a new trick, but I’ve never specifically covered it so I thought I ought to…

Let’s start with a quick review. If you read the previous css positioning post you can probably skip to the next section.A web page is a two dimensional plane with width and height. z-index is the missing third dimension, depth, with an axis that moves in and out of your monitor. z-index allows us to break out of the plane of the page and stack elements on top of each other…

Too many designers neglect the click state (active: property in CSS) in web design, either because they’re unaware of it, underestimate the importance of it or are plain lazy. It’s a simple effect that improves usability by giving the user some feedback as to what they’ve clicked on but can also add depth to a design…

Extensions built with eCSStender greatly simplify the design process because you can author modern CSS using advanced selectors, properties such as border-radius, or custom font faces and rest assured that your design will work… even in IE6. To see what you can use today, browse the extensions. To use the extensions, download eCSStender and include it and your extensions in your site…

CSS3 is the partially implemented sequel to the CSS2 spec we all know and love. It’s already popping up in new browsers such as Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and Chrome. In this article, the first of the articles that explore practical (and even far-fetched) implementation of CSS3, we start by applying CSS3 to something we all have to create: buttons…

Using CSS animations in Safari, we’re able to turn an otherwise ordinary button into a glowing, radioactive mess of awesome. Don’t see the radioactive buttons? Be sure you’re in Safari before getting underway…

Real type on the web. All the kids are doing it. But maybe we’re doing it wrong. After testing several CSS @font-face syntax variants, including one used on this site, Paul Irish says the following is clearly best:

A Cocoa-based app that runs inside Coda and provides a GUI for the LESS compiler, which is a command-line tool that parses LESS syntax into standard CSS. It runs the command-line tool on all .less files within your website’s local directory, either when you click a button or automatically as you save each .less file — your choice. This happens in the background, so you never have to leave Coda or stop working…

We’re all familiar with specifying colours in CSS using by defining the mix of red, green and blue light required to achieve our tone. This is fine and dandy, but whatever values we specify have one thing in common – the colours are all solid, flat, and well, a bit boring. CSS3 introduces a couple of new ways to specify colours, and one of those is RGBA. The A stands for Alpha, which refers to the level of opacity of the colour, or to put it another way, the amount of transparency. This means that we can set not only the red, green and blue values, but also control how much of what’s behind the colour shows through. Like with layers in Photoshop…