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Forgotten CSS selectors

Anyone who has been using CSS for any length of time has probably been frustrated by the lack of selector support in Internet Explorer 6. There are quite a lot of cases where a CSS 2.1 selector will let you target elements in all other relevant browsers, but where you, if you want it to […]
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The CSS3 :not() selector

There isn’t a lot of information to be found about the :not() selector. The specifications only offer 3 lines of text and a couple of examples. So lets see what it can do!
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Use CSS3 to Create a Dynamic Stack of Index Cards

Recently we hear a lot about CSS3 and its features and even though there are already some web sites out there that take advantage of some of the CSS3 features including DesignLovr we hardly ever see the full potential of what can be achieved with CSS3.Today we’re going to take a step into that direction […]
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How To Provide a Flexible Base for Text

Sizing text in pixels can cause many problems for web developers – especially in Internet Explorer. Author Dan Cederholm shows you the best practices for sizing fonts…
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How to Make a CSS Sprite Powered Menu

Today’s tutorial will bring you through the process of building a slick menu using a single CSS sprite image. It’s a simple, but elegant solution for most websites. This was one of the design strategies that first helped me to start using smarter markup. For those of you just getting introduced to this technique today, […]
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CSS Transitions 101

Despite people’s expectation of change and movement on the screen, CSS and HTML have few controls that allow you to design interactivity, and those that exist are binary. A link is either one color or another. A text field is either one size or another. A photo is either transparent or opaque. No in-betweens from […]
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The importance of the !important CSS declaration

The !important declaration has been valid since CSS1 but it seems to have acquired a bad reputation over the years. Even if the !important declaration should be used with caution, it’s a very useful and powerful expression that much deserves its place in our CSS world. This article offers a guide to what the declaration […]
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Creating a Time Saving CSS Template

If you are a freelance developer then saving time always works in your favor. One way to help you save time, especially if like me, you find yourself doing a lot of the same kind of work over and over, is setting up templates. In the case of web development, having a customized template for […]
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Practical Uses of CSS3

CSS3 is not fully supported across all browsers. If you still want everything to look exactly the same across all browsers, you should probably just close this article and not read about CSS for another 10 years. A user is not going to pull up your site in two different browsers to compare the experience, […]
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What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS

CSS 3 properties like border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow are starting to gain momentum in WebKit (Safari, Chrome, etc.) and Gecko (Firefox) browsers. They are already creating more lightweight pages and richer experiences for users, not to mention that they degrade pretty gracefully; but they are only the tip of the iceberg of what we can […]
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