Posts Tagged ‘Essentials’
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Backgrounds In CSS: Everything You Need To Know
- September 2nd, 2009
- 71 Comments
Backgrounds are a core part of CSS. They are one of the fundamentals that you simply need to know. In this article, we will cover the basics of using CSS backgrounds, including properties such as background-attachment. We’ll show some common tricks that can be done with the background as well ...
Read more...Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools
- August 10th, 2009
- 43 Comments
CSS is one of the most basic building blocks of modern web design. It creates the structure and style that surrounds your content and is capable of making your site a joy to use or a pain in the neck. Mastering CSS is one of the most important things a ...
Read more...Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements
- August 3rd, 2009
- 71 Comments
CSS is one of the most important building blocks of modern web design. Standards demand the use of CSS for formatting and styling pages, and with good reason. It’s lighter-weight and capable of much more than older methods like tables. And CSS isn’t nearly as tricky as some people tend to ...
Read more...The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins
- July 27th, 2009
- 121 Comments
Since the recommendation of CSS2 back in 1998, the use of tables has slowly faded into the background and into the history books. Because of this, CSS layouts have since then been synonymous with coding elegance. Out of all the CSS concepts designers have ever used, an award probably needs to ...
Read more...The Mystery Of CSS Sprites: Techniques, Tools And Tutorials
- April 27th, 2009
- 148 Comments
CSS Sprites are not new. In fact, they are a rather well-established technique and have managed to become common practice in Web development. Of course, CSS sprites are not always necessary, but in some situation they can bring significant advantages and improvements – particularly if you want to reduce your ...
Read more...Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
- May 2nd, 2008
- 80 Comments
Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the project’s layout, with all its numerous classes, color schemes and type setting. To understand your code years after you’ve written it you need to make use of sensible code structuring. The latter can dramatically ...
Read more...CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know
- July 27th, 2007
- 63 Comments
Apart from Floats, the CSS Specificity is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in Cascading Stylesheets. The different weight of selectors is usually the reason why your CSS-rules don’t apply to some elements, although you think they should have. In order to minimize the time for bug hunting ...
Read more...CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know
- May 1st, 2007
- 80 Comments
The concept of floats is probably one of the most unintuitive concepts in CSS. Floats are often misunderstood and blamed for floating all the context around it, causing readability and usability problems. However, the reason for these problems isn’t the theory itself, but the way the theory is interpreted – ...
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