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CSS Rehab – 3 Step Program To Getting Clean

A useful article that explains how to get away from using tables for layout. A simple 3 step plan to help cure your bad HTML and CSS habits…
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Degradable PNG Transparency for IE6

All (sane) web developers are eagerly awaiting the day Internet Explorer 6 dies. While there are a number of opinions in the community on when we should drop support and how we should encourage users to upgrade, the (sad) fact is that (as of this writing) roughly 25% of the world is still using it. […]
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Pure CSS Timeline

I wanted to build a CSS timeline for the “About” section of my site while using some clean and simple markup. I wanted to avoid using images as much as possible, so I spent a few minutes prototyping some options and came up with a solution using unordered lists. The result is a simple and […]
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A Tutorial All About CSS Floats

In web design, page elements with the CSS float property applied to them are just like the images in the print layout where the text flows around them. Floated elements remain a part of the flow of the web page. This is distinctly different than page elements that use absolute positioning. Absolutely positioned page elements […]
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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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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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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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