Taming Long Words with CSS word-wrap

Web browsers have a long history of sharing features between them. The word-wrap CSS property is a feature that originally came from Microsoft and is included in CSS3. Now available in Firefox 3.5, this CSS property allows the browser to arbitrarily break up long words or strings of characters to fit within a given element…

New CSS3 properties in Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 supports several new CSS3 selectors. In this post we’ll talk about four of them: :nth-child, :nth-last-child, :nth-of-type and :nth-last-of-type. Each of these is called a Pseudo-class and can be used to apply styles to existing selectors. The best way to describe how this works is with some examples…

@font-face: The Potential of Web Typography

Firefox 3.5 is out and with it comes the support for some new CSS3 selectors. The more users download it, the more designers will be able to take advantage of the @font-face CSS rule. How can @font-face be used with currently implemented CSS selectors to create engaging, nuanced and more mature typography? Here’s an article […]

How to: Opacity with CSS

Do you know that an opacity or transparency can be applied to various aspects of a website without the use of Photoshop? Well you can with the use of CSS and even though there is not yet a CSS standard, the effect does work in all modern browsers and is easily achievable. Here are the […]

Designing Accessible Navigation Menus with CSS and XHTML

Building an accessible website is a holistic endeavor. In order to provide easy access to the information on each page, myriad factors must be considered. One of the chief amongst these is the creation of accessible navigation. Whether considering business logic or a principled perspective on web design, enabling the site user to move within […]

CSS Hacks for Different Versions of Firefox

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t use CSS hacks. In the unpredictable, chaos of the real world, however, there are many situations where applying styles to particular browsers is indeed the optimal solution. Most of the time, we’d be targeting or filtering Internet Explorer because it is so incredibly awesome, but occasionally we need to […]

7 Essential CSS3 Techniques Revealed

There are several new and exciting functions and features being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image, etc. This article presents 7 New CSS3 techniques that every web designer and developer should know. CSS3 will make complex effects easier to implement. Not all current browsers support CSS3 but there are workarounds […]

10 Professional Looking Free CSS Menus

Here are 10 attractive CSS menus that are ready to be used. In most there are CSS stylesheets ready to be downloaded directly from the site but a few are in tutorial format. For those you’ll be directed to the source website for you to complete the tutorial…

Vertically aligning text without the use of JavaScript

This is one of those really annoying CSS bugs that should be so simple to do but is actually fairly problematic because of old browsers like IE6. Vertical-align should be all that’s needed but nope, certain browsers like IE6 don’t support it so we need to do some wizardry to get it to work cross […]

CSS text-shadow Fun: Realtime Lighting Demo

A post about the CSS text-shadow property. It’s been used to create some fun pseudo-realtime lighting effects. There’s an example using a PNG to create a spotlight with some JavaScript to update the text-shadow style in order to simulate realtime shadows from a single light source. Works in Firefox 3.5, Safari, Opera, and Chrome but […]

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