Category: Tutorials

Rounded corners on images, CSS-only

Admit it, even though rounded corners are widely seen as overused, you love playing with border-radius. A common complaint is that you can’t use that CSS3 property on images. Define any value, and the images will still display as nature intended: straight corners. For a project I’m working on, it would’ve been really nice having […]
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Whenever you use :hover, also use :focus

Probably one of the most common accessibility oversights is neglecting to apply CSS to the :focus state of links whenever you style the :hover state. How much of a problem this oversight leads to for non-mouse users depends on what CSS is applied to the :hover state…
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CSS Word-Wrap: Force Text to Wrap

A rarely used but extremely useful CSS property, the word-wrap. You can force long unbroken text to wrap in a new line by specifying break-word with the word-wrap property. For example, you can use it to prevent text extending out the box and breaking the layout. This commonly happens when you have a long URL […]
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The Little Known font-size-adjust CSS3 Property

Ever wanted to use fallback fonts on your CSS with different aspect ratios without them looking huge or tiny? The sparkling new CSS3 font-size-adjust property could do just that, maybe…
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Purely CSS – Faking Different Color Columns

We want to create a layout with two columns, each a different color, yet have both colors extend the the edge of the browser. This is a technique intended for people that want a multi-colored column fixed width eg. 960px layout. The secret behind this technique is an 3000 pixel width background image don’t worry […]
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CSS Opacity: A Comprehensive Reference

CSS opacity has been a bit of a trendy technique for a few years now, and it’s been especially frustrating for developers trying to implement opacity (also referred to as CSS transparency) in a cross-browser fashion, because it’s taken a while for the different browsers to finally agree on settings. There is still not a […]
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Screencast: Understanding CSS3 Gradients

Creating an image only for the purpose of displaying a gradient is inflexible, and is quickly becoming a bad practice. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, they very well might still be required, but hopefully not for much longer. Thanks to Firefox and Safari/Chrome, we can now create powerful gradients with minimal effort. In […]
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How to Create Inset Typography with CSS3

In this tutorial, we’ll create inset type, a popular text treatment, using CSS. If you follow Six Revisions closely, you’re probably thinking: "Jacob already wrote a Photoshop tutorial on how to do that." That is correct, but this time we are going to do it using only CSS…
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CSS in Depth: Floats and Positions

We’ll be discussing CSS positions and floats as well as what the differences are and when it’s best to use them. Both floats and positions deal with the relationship of elements between each other. Without these, padding and margins would be ineffectual…
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Meet the Pseudo Class Selectors

Pseudo class selectors CSS selectors with a colon preceding them. You are probably very familiar with a few of them. Like hover. They are immensely useful in a variety of situations. Some of them are CSS3, some CSS2, it depends on each particular one. Outside of IE, they have great browser support. In IE land, […]
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