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This article will attempt to provide an exhaustive, easy-to-use reference for developers desiring to know the differences in CSS support for IE6, IE7 and IE8. This reference contains brief descriptions and compatibility for:

• Any item that is supported by one of the three browser versions, but not the other two
• Any item that is supported by two of the three browser versions, but not the other one

Since I posted the huge collection of Large Background Websites, I received several email requests on how to make a large background site with CSS. So, I thought it would be a good idea to share my techniques on designing large background websites. In this tutorial, I will provide various CSS examples on how you can create a large background site using either a single or double images…

Yesterday, Jon and I were going back and forth about what to blog about next. Love of CSS and doing something cool with it is kind of our thing and we quickly jumped on a brand new idea: polaroid style images with just CSS. Holy super awesome, Batman!

When we need simple and effective on-page navigation, to either jump to content on the page or flip to another view, we use the dl element. Its sub elements, the dt and dd, make it very easy for us to create inline links with a clear label. Here we’re going to share with you a fast, lightweight method for how we’ll use CSS to do it…

This tutorial describes a really simple CSS trick to implement a fake equal height columns effect using the CSS properties position:absolute and border. Before to proceed I suggest you to download my CSS 2 Visual Cheat Sheet for a practical reference guide to CSS 2 properties that can help you understand concepts illustrated in this post…

xCSS bases on CSS and empowers a straightforward and object-oriented workflow when developing complex style cascades. Using xCSS means a dramatic cut down to your development time by: having a intuitive overview of the overall CSS structure, using variables, re-using existing style cascades and many other handy features. But, most frameworks are bulky and inflexible, aren’t they? Not xCSS! It’s lightweight and seamlessly integrates into any existing workflow. Aside from that the CSS overhead is getting reduced while your XHTML attributes remain semantic…

In this post I want to reply to a frequently asked question that I receive from my readers about how to distribute horizontally a certain number of elements within a main container using CSS. This problem is not particularly complex and can be solved simply using the CSS selector :first-child…

I’ve spent a couple days worth now trying to figure out the best and most complete approach to font embedding using @font-face. It really is a dark art that must be mastered. It is by no means a straightforward process. Here’s the findings…

Which approach is better to write CSS code? In general I always prefer to use a methodic top-down approach I want to present you in this post. I called this process Four Bubbles Model.The model is based on four progressive phases that helps you quickly develop CSS files and maintain a better control of code you’re writing. The following picture illustrates the four main phases that compose the model…

Many browsers have been experimenting with new custom CSS properties lately. Keeping track (and learning how to use them) can be a bit of a challenge.

Via WidgetPad comes a nifty CSS 3 Generator that helps you understand the new CSS 3 features in Webkit with an interactive tool that will build up and show how each new property affects an element. Here, for example, we see the results of applying rounded corners, box shadows, reflections, and a transform to an element…