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Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning

A page element with relative positioning gives you the control to absolutely position children elements inside of it. To some, this is obvious. To others, this may be one of those CSS “Ah-ha!” moments…
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HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using

In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to […]
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All About: CSS Positioning

At some point or another, if you want to lay out a complex CSS design, you’re probably going to have to turn to the veritable Swiss Army knife of advanced CSS layout: the position property. There are four possible values for this property: static, relative, absolute, and fixed. Let’s briefly go through each…
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3 Ways to Add Depth to Any Website with CSS

In design, the small and subtle details can have the biggest impact. Smoother lines, refined textures, and the right shape and size bring a lot to the design. Finer details can take your designs from good to great. One technique we use regularly is adding depth to a design to give it that extra flair. […]
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An In Depth Coverage Of CSS Layers, Z-Index, Relative And Absolute Positioning

CSS can be difficult to learn. When we’re talking about CSS Layers, Z-Index, Absolute and Relative Positioning, CSS beginners often struggle to grasp the concepts. This article attempts to explain these concepts in an easy to understand way…
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CSS Positioning Properties Quick Reference Guide

This article is aimed at experienced CSS developers who need a reference for the properties related to positioning in CSS 2. Each section of this article includes a link to the relevant section of the SitePoint CSS Reference and the W3C CSS 2 Specification…
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Stopping the CSS positioning panic Part 1

CSS positioning is quite easy. I guess no-one explained it plain and simple before. The first part this post will focus on the four types of CSS positioning: static, relative, absolute and fixed. The second part will focus on the float property that is obviously related to an element’s position in our site…
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CSS Fundamentals: Containing Children

An article for CSS beginners that explains the mysteries of forcing parent divs to contain their children. Two methods are described – overflow: hidden, and clearfix…
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Easy Tab Tutorial with CSS and jQuery – Tabbed Navigation

There are quite a few tutorials out there that demonstrate how to create tabs with CSS and jQuery. Here’s one that’s easy to understand even for a beginner…
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CSS3 – a big storm is coming

A big storm is coming, and it hopefully will blow away a lot of things that are wrong with web design. While the current CSS standard offered tremendous steps away from traditional print design, with CSS3 media queries and multi-column layouts it will be a whole new ballgame. The possibilies we have now hopefully change […]
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