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CSS3 properties exposed

A comprehensive central reference site for CSS3. For each CSS3 property you’ll find an easy to understand explanation and browser support info…
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My New Best Friend: CSS Generated Content

I’ve become obsessed with generated content lately. In an effort to use fewer and fewer images, I’ve started to use generated content more since more browsers support it IE8+, FF3+, Safari 4+, Chrome 4+. The following are a couple of examples I have built for a project to streamline my pages…
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An all CSS button

A few years ago I gave a talk about why a button made a great place to bring in type from a branding element such as a logo. My point was that if the type in your logo was an image, and stylish buttons were also often images, then why not align the fonts in […]
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CSS properties that affect type rendering

When it comes to type rendering on the web, there’s not much web designers can do. The way fonts appear on screen is mostly due to operating systems, browsers, typeface designs, font files, and how those font files are (or are not) augmented with instructions for the most unforgiving rendering scenarios. But in some cases, […]
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Make CSS3 buttons like a boss

High-quality interface elements are a great way to add that extra bit of refinement to a website. I’ve been maintaining a repo of CSS3 buttons for the past few months and I’m starting to see them slowly make their way out into the real world. This tutorial is going to give you a deeper understanding […]
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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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Controlling text size in Safari for iOS without disabling user zoom

The default viewport settings – the size and scale of the viewport – in Mobile Safari/Safari for iOS are optimised for websites with a width of 980 pixels. This means that if you use a fluid/elastic layout or media queries to make your layout adaptable, Safari on iOS doesn’t take advantage of the flexibility that […]
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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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Pure CSS GUI Icons Experimental

An experiment that uses pseudo-elements to create 84 simple GUI icons using CSS and semantic HTML. Shared as an exercise in creative problem solving and working within constraints. This is not a “production ready” CSS icon set…
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