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Compares the speed of the same design coded twice: once with CSS3, and a second time using CSS background images sliced directly from the PSD…

An impressive gallery of CSS3 patterns that are created without using any images. You’ll need a modern browser to see them…

The clearfix hack is a popular way to clear floats without resorting to using presentational markup. This article presents an update to the clearfix method that further reduces the amount of CSS required…

An incredibly useful CSS3 feature when you’re creating columns with floats is box-sizing. It lets you choose which box sizing model to use – whether or not an element’s width and height include padding and border or not.This is useful since it makes it much easier to define flexible widths where you also need padding and/or borders. A typical example is laying out forms, which can be a real pain when you want flexible widths…

A handy technique for absolutely positioning textareas using left, right, top and bottom values to lock inner elements relative to an outer container. This avoids any issues with padding in various browsers…

We can use pseudo-classes to style content dynamically. CSS pseudo-classes come in four groups: structural pseudo-classes, pseudo-classes for the states of UI elements, a target pseudo-class and a negation pseudo-class. This in-depth article explains how and where to use them effectively…

Alternative to Cloud Four’s demonstration on how to serve up iPad stylesheets based on device orientation…

If you get tired of adding all those vendor prefixes for CSS3 you might find this online tool handy. Just write normal CSS without the prefix then paste that code into the tool and get vendor specific CSS3 prefixes added…

Add CSS styles to any website, and share the result with a short link…

Help on avoiding common mistakes when using shiny new CSS3 features in your day to day front end coding. Learn to write better CSS3 that works in as many browsers as possible…