CSS Vocabulary

A useful refrence to the terminology of CSS. Do you find yourself unsure about the terms used? When asking for help forums, do you get got stuck wondering how exactly to describe the problem? This list will help to describe all the common terms of CSS…

CSS Arrows and Shapes Without Markup

Often it’s useful to show an arrow or some sort of contextual indication of what element something is related to. We see this frequently with tooltips that use arrows to point to the item that is triggering them. Today I’m going to show you a way to add in these visual hints without having to […]

CSS3 Memory

A game of memory in which you have to find three matching cards (as a tribute to the CSS level used for the transitions)…

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…

CSS Box Shadow & Text Shadow Experiments

Using a little HTML and some CSS we take a trip to the dark side of the moon, create a periodical table and make a radioactive love concoction. We even throw some CSS animations in there to add to the party…

Understanding CSS3 Transitions

We can start to use CSS3 transitions right now as long as we carefully choose the situations in which to use them. They certainly won’t replace existing technologies like Flash, JavaScript, or SVG (especially without broader browser support)—but they can be used to push the experience layer a notch higher. And most importantly, they’re relatively […]

Getting Clever with CSS3 Shadows – Screencast

As soon as we detach a shadow from the element, itself, we can then transform the shadow in interesting and creative ways. This quick video tutorial will show you how…

CSS3 Button Generator

A handy online tool that allows you to easily create the code for CSS3 buttons complete with gradients, borders, box shadows and text shadows…

Formalize CSS

I want some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as to appear foreign in a user’s operating system. Thus, my quest to find a happy medium, where browsers would generally agree and let me keep my sanity. The result is what I’m simply referring to as Formalize CSS…

Diagonal CSS Sprites

With the sprite built on a diagonal there are no components below or to the right of the component you are showing. This allows for the element using the sprite to be as wide or as tall as it needs to be with no worry of exposing the next component…

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