Tag: resize

Height equals width with pure CSS

A CSS only solution to maintaining aspect ratios when elements are resized…
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CSS effect: space images out to match text height

Make several fixed-width images change their spacing to stay lined up with accompanying text, no matter the window size or text size…
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Font sizing with rem

Determining a unit of measurement to size our text can be a topic of heated debate, even in this day and age. Unfortunately, there are still various pros and cons that make the various techniques less desirable. It’s just a matter of which less-desirable is most desirable. There are two main techniques that are extolled: […]
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Supersize that Background, Please!

With an advertising world keen to use every inch of a medium for brand or product experience, it is becoming increasingly popular to design websites with full-browser backgrounds. Using CSS, this can be achieved quite easily. Just drop a huge background image in a page with one line of code. But which image size will […]
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Fluid Images in CSS Fluid Layouts

One of the really solid criticisms lobbied against my Fluid Grids article for ALA was that all of my examples were pretty text-heavy. As a result, they all more or less ignored the issue I raised at the end of the essay: that working with non-fixed layouts can be more difficult once you introduce fixed-width […]
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PX to EM conversion made simple

PXtoEM.com is pixels to em conversion made simple. Choose your body font size in pixels (px) and out comes a complete pixel (px) to em conversion table, making elastic web design with CSS a snap. The once daunting challenge of converting pixels (px) to the elusive em has now been reduced to a booger eating […]
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