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47 CSS Tips & Tricks To Take Your Site To The Next Level

Here are 47 CSS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques to add to your CSS toolbox. Some you may be familiar with while others may be new to you. The tips below span from beginner to more advanced CSS code. Hopefully you’ll find a few techniques that will be both new and useful to you and perhaps […]
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Get to Grips with CSS Pseudo-Elements

Pseudo elements include :first-line, :first-letter, :before and :after. In the CSS specification, W3C define pseudo-elements like this: Pseudo-elements create abstractions about the document tree beyond those specified by the document language. For instance, document languages do not offer mechanisms to access the first letter or first line of an element’s content. CSS pseudo-elements allow style […]
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Understanding CSS Style Precedence

Have you ever run into the situation where you’re trying to apply a css style to an element, but it won’t take? Your page it seems to be ignoring your CSS, but you can’t figure out why. Maybe you found yourself using !important or adding an inline style as a last resort. There’s a good […]
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Online CSS3 Generator

Online CSS3 generator app. Pick an option like rounded corners, text shadow, box shadow, RGBa etc and you’ll get the rules for the CSS. Very handy…
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Understanding CSS Attribute Selectors

CSS has the ability to target HTML elements based on any one of their attributes. You probably already know about classes and IDs. But did you know you can select an element based on the rel attribute as well? That is known as an attribute selector. There is a lot more to attribute selectors so […]
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Setting Rather than Resetting Default Styling

Following the idea of “tweaking” a reset file, I came up with this “base styles sheet”. It sets default styling for many elements, follows a couple of recommendations regarding usability/accessibility, and addresses a few “common issues” as well…
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CSS3 Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator

CSS3, Please! The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator…
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CSS In Depth: Margins, Padding & The Box Model

In the first of the CSS In depth series, we’ll be talking about margins, padding and the box model. Margins and padding are some of the most widely used styles in CSS, but are often the source of frustration in cross-browser compatibility. In this post, we’ll explain the difference between padding and margins, how the […]
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CSS3-Only Tabbed Area

When you think of “tabs”, your mind might go right to JavaScript. Watch for a click on a tab, hide all the panels, show the one corresponding to tab just clicked on. All major JavaScript libraries tackle tabs in some way. But there is a way to accomplish this same idea with “pure CSS”. Just […]
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