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Checkerboard, striped & other background patterns with CSS3 gradients

You’re probably familiar with CSS3 gradients by now, including the closer to the standard Mozilla syntax and the ugly verbose Webkit one. I assume you know how to add multiple color stops, make your gradients angled or create radial gradients. What you might not be aware of, is that CSS3 gradients can be used to […]
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How to Control Your CSS3 Animations

Here’s a CSS3 animation property that you might not know about. The -webkit-animation-fill-mode property. It provides fine-tuned control over your CSS3 keyframe animations…
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Gradients And a Few Things You Didn’t

An in depth article covering CSS3 gradients. The smartly applied gradient can be a valuable contributor to a designer’s vocabulary. Let’s take a quick look at how to create CSS gradients—hopefully we can make them seem a bit more accessible, and bring a bit more art into the browser…
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A Comprehensive Guide to CSS Resets

This guide examines the infinite-like variety of CSS resets created by web developers and designers across the world.While almost all of these CSS resets are generally provided free for public use many through Creative Commons licensing, it is incumbent upon you to check the terms of use before putting them to use in your projects…
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An Introduction to CSS 3D Transforms

3D transforms change the way we think about the blank canvas of web design. Better yet, they change the canvas itself, trading in the flat surface for voluminous depth. We web designers, who have rejoiced for border-radius, box-shadow and background gradients, now have an incredible tool at our disposal in 3D transforms. They deserve just […]
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CSS Box Shadow & Text Shadow Experiments

Using a little HTML and some CSS we take a trip to the dark side of the moon, create a periodical table and make a radioactive love concoction. We even throw some CSS animations in there to add to the party…
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CSS Positioning 101

If you’re a front end developer or a designer who likes to code, CSS-based layouts are at the very core of your work. In what might be a refresher for some, or even an “a-ha!” for others, let’s look at the CSS position property to see how we can use it to create standards-compliant, table-free […]
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Understanding CSS3 Transitions

We can start to use CSS3 transitions right now as long as we carefully choose the situations in which to use them. They certainly won’t replace existing technologies like Flash, JavaScript, or SVG (especially without broader browser support)—but they can be used to push the experience layer a notch higher. And most importantly, they’re relatively […]
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Formalize CSS

I want some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as to appear foreign in a user’s operating system. Thus, my quest to find a happy medium, where browsers would generally agree and let me keep my sanity. The result is what I’m simply referring to as Formalize CSS…
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Diagonal CSS Sprites

With the sprite built on a diagonal there are no components below or to the right of the component you are showing. This allows for the element using the sprite to be as wide or as tall as it needs to be with no worry of exposing the next component…
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