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How to Micro-Optimize Your CSS

In this article you’ll learn how to write leaner, cleaner CSS using 10+ micro-optimization techniques. The basic idea behind micro-optimizing your CSS involves writing clean code, eliminating extraneous characters, and reducing overall file size. And you don’t have to rely on an automated script to do everything for you. Instead of writing lazy, sloppy, bloated […]
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A Complete Guide to CSS pseudo-classes

An in-depth article covering both CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 Pseudo Classes…
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Sexy Tooltips with Just CSS

Providing supplementary information about potentially complex elements of a user interface is a central part of any website designer or developer’s workflow in creating usable and accessible websites. One of the most common mechanisms for providing extra details beyond what you can see on the page is the tooltip (a design pattern for showing tips […]
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Creating Fancy Checkmark Icons with Pure CSS3

I was recently working on a personal project where I wanted to implement some cool “checkmark” icons like you see at left to spice up my unordered lists. I could’ve done it quite easily with the list-style-image property, but I was trying to keep my images and http requests to a minimum, so I wanted […]
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CSS Image Replacement with pseudo-elements (NIR)

An accessible image replacement method using pseudo-elements and generated-content. This method works with images and/or CSS off; works with semi-transparent images; doesn’t hide text from screen-readers or search engines; and provides fallback for IE6 and IE7…
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Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale

The Twitter “Fail Whale” fully rendered using just CSS. If you’re using a Webkit browser Safari or Chrome, you’ll also see it’s animated. If you are viewing in IE8 or below, well, this isn’t an experiment for you…
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Multiple Backgrounds and Borders with CSS 2.1

Using CSS 2.1 pseudo-elements to provide up to 3 background canvases, 2 fixed-size presentational images, and multiple complex borders for a single HTML element. This method of progressive enhancement works for all browsers that support CSS 2.1 pseudo-elements and their positioning. No CSS3 support required…
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CSS – The Space Combinator

Combinators are an overlooked part of CSS development. Most juniors don’t even know they are making use of them, others are unaware of their full potential and let’s face it, even most professionals don’t really know about the ins and outs of CSS combinators. It’s all connected to that little piece of nothingness in between […]
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Demystifying CSS At-Rules

CSS at-rules or @rules are so-named because they utilize an @ character. They aren’t used as often as other CSS elements, and for a long time I didn’t really understand them. If you’ve ever been confused about CSS at-rules, here’s a quick guide…
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The CSS white-space Property Explained

CSS has a pretty useful property called white-space that I’m guessing goes unnoticed among CSS beginners. You can probably live without this property for quite some time, but once you learn how to use it, it will come in very handy and you’ll find yourself going back to it over and over again. This article […]
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