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Every single element on a page is a rectangular box. The sizing, positioning, and behavior of these boxes can all be controlled via CSS. By behavior, I mean how the box handles it when the content inside and around it changes. For example, if you don’t set the height of a box, the height of […]

One of the most effective ways of speeding up a website’s render time is to reduce the number of HTTP requests required to fetch content. An effective method to achieve this is via CSS sprites, which is combining multiple images into one large image and using CSS to only display parts of it…

When display: inline-block became available it allowed an efficient and (mostly) cross-browser way to center elements, without resolving to floats…

Other liquid based websites, commonly use 2 techniques for displaying columns – fixed columns and liquid columns. There are drawbacks to both and here’s a suggested solution…

When we think about CSS-Styled lists, different ideas come to mind but that rusty old image of bulleted items is not one of them anymore. There are lots of different methods to format nice HTML lists that is used in most web designs not only for navigation menu (vertical or horizontal) but for formatting many […]