Posts Tagged ‘CSS’
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The Bright (Near) Future of CSS
- February 11th, 2011
- 82 Comments
This article is an excerpt from Eric Meyer’s recent book Smashing CSS, published by Wiley in cooperation with Smashing Magazine. In this article, the focus is on what’s coming: styling techniques you’ll use in the immediate and near-term future. From styling HTML 5 elements to rearranging layout based on display parameters ...
Read more...Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It
- January 12th, 2011
- 139 Comments
Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design ...
Read more...Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today
- December 10th, 2010
- 292 Comments
For a while now, here on Smashing Magazine, we have taken notice of how many designers are reluctant to embrace the new technologies such as CSS3 or HTML5 because of the lack of full cross-browser support for these technologies. Many designers are complaining about the numerous ways how the lack ...
Read more...Photoshop-Inspired Techniques with 100% CSS
- November 23rd, 2010
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Since the beginning of CSS3, Web designers have begun experimenting with different code-based solutions to add to design, and even to make up a design entirely. Even with older versions of CSS there are many design solutions that can be done with 100% code, no images necessary. In this article, we’re ...
Read more...Equal Height Column Layouts with Borders and Negative Margins in CSS
- November 8th, 2010
- 117 Comments
“What? Another “Equal Height Columns” article? Enough already!” If this is what you think, then think again because this solution is different. It does not rely on any of the usual tricks. It does not use images, nor extra markup, nor CSS3, nor pseudo-classes, nor Javascript, nor absolute positioning. ...
Read more...!important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them
- November 2nd, 2010
- 104 Comments
When the CSS1 specification was drafted in the mid to late 90s, it introduced !important declarations that would help developers and users easily override normal specificity when making changes to their stylesheets. For the most part, !important declarations have remained the same, with only one change in CSS2.1 and nothing ...
Read more...Transparent CSS Sprites
- October 31st, 2010
- 65 Comments
One of the most useful front-end development techniques of recent years is the humble “CSS Sprites”. The technique was popularised by Dave Shea on A List Apart in 2004 with his article CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death. CSS Sprites are a relatively simple technique once you understand the ...
Read more...50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools
- October 12th, 2010
- 87 Comments
These are great times for front-end developers. After months of exaggerated excitement about HTML5 and CSS3, the web design community now starts coming up with CSS techniques that actually put newly available technologies to practical use instead of abusing them for pure aesthetic purposes. We see fewer “pure CSS images” ...
Read more...Five Useful CSS/jQuery Coding Techniques For More Dynamic Websites
- September 21st, 2010
- 94 Comments
Interactivity can transform a dull static website into a dynamic tool that not only delights users but conveys information more effectively. In this post, we’ll walk through five different coding techniques that can be easily implemented on any website to provide a richer user experience. These techniques will allow you ...
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