CSS

Introduction

The following is useful information related to Cascade Style Sheet (CSS) programming.

Tips and Tricks

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• CSS3 - Using Visual Effects
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• CSS3 - Pushing Your Buttons
• CSS3 - Fun with Video and 3D
• CSS3 - 3D Cube using new CSS transformations
• CSS3 - What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS
• CSS3 - Multiple Backgrounds and CSS Gradients
• CSS3 - Dropdown Menu
• CSS3 - OS X Leopard-style Stacks in CSS3 only
• CSS3 - The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model
• CSS3 - Solutions for Internet Explorer
• 10 Principles of the CSS Masters
• CSS Jumpstart
• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design
• 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding
• Tops CSS Tips
• CSS Tips and Tricks
• 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
• Code for wrapping long lines.
• CSS Generated Content: Part 1.
• Top Ten Web Typography Sins.
• HTML and CSS List Based Menus
• CSS And HTML Two Level Menus Take One
• Optimizing CSS Controls with PNG Masks
• All about floats
• How I learned to stop floating and love the inline-block
• The Future Of Inline-Block
• Label Placement on Forms
• Backgrounds In CSS: Everything You Need To Know
• Blurry Background Effect
• Perfect Full Page Background Image
• RGBa Browser Support
• Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices
• Transparent Background, Positioning Problem
• What is Vertical Align?
• The Mystery Of CSS Sprites: Techniques, Tools And Tutorials
• CSS Sprites with Inline Images
• Browser-specific CSS hacks
• CSS Gradients in Action
• The CSS Overflow Property
• Fixed vs. Fluid vs. Elastic Layout: What’s The Right One For You?
• WebKit - 3D Transforms
• The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins
• 10 Useful CSS/JS-Coding Solutions For Web-Developers
• Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters
• Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
• Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements
• Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools
• Text Rotation
• Taming Advanced CSS Selectors
• Style a List with One Pixel
• The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look
• Why Stylesheet Abstraction Matters
• An in-depth look at @font-face
• Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics
• Rolling a coke can around with pure CSS
• Link Underlines Grow to Backgrounds on Hover
• How nth-child Works
• Multiple Class / ID and Class Selectors
• CSS3-Only Tabbed Area
• 50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms)
• The Principles Of Cross-Browser CSS Coding
• Efficiently Rendering CSS
• Child and Sibling Selectors
• CSS Specificity And Inheritance
• Middle Box Links

Best Practices

• CSS3 - Examples and Best Practices

News

• CSS 3
• Smashing Magazine
• CSS Tricks

Tutorials

• Specifics on CSS Specificity - A good article on understanding how styles are loaded based on definition within your style cheet, by ID, by class, etc.
• The CSS Box Model Hierarchy - A very nice 3D diagram to understanding boxes.
• CSS Positioning - Explains how positioning works in laying out text, images, etc.
• Floatitis Part 1 : An Introduction - Learn how to use and not use floated elements.
• List Menu With Feed Reader Icons - Walks you throw now to build a nice menu of syndicated feeds complete with icons.
• Multi-product Quantity-based Order Form - Design order form that is also interactive.

Tools

• CSS3 Generator - A handy CSS3 generator that produces examples for all browsers.
• Layouts - A collection of CSS stylesheet layouts for quickly bootstrapping a new project based.
• Blueprint CSS - An excellent grid based CSS framework that will provide more structure to your designs. Download and install Boks if you need a rich GUI editor for customization purposes. Here are some additional resources to check out.
• 52 Framework - One of the first CSS frameworks to support HTML5 and CSS3.
• SlickMap - A site map stylesheet.
• Linear Gradients - A tool that aids in designing gradients, shadows, and text strokes. Support is mostly for Safari 4 but a list at the bottom of the page shows when it works for other browsers too.

Dealing with Internet Explorer (IE)

The bane of web browsers but, if you must support it, here are some tips:

• How To Support Internet Explorer and Still Be Cutting Edge
• IE6 CSS Fixer - A tool that gives you a jump start on fixing common IE6 CSS issues.
• Fix It Fast: Rapid IE6 CSS Debugging
• 10 Cool Things We’ll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead; And A Few We Can’t
• Dealing with Internet Explorer
• Explorer Exposed
• WebCredible’s IE CSS Issues
• IE CSS Bug Fixes
• Debugging CSS in Internet Explorer
• IE CSS Bugs That’ll Get You Every Time
• How To Create an IE Only Stylesheet
• Bicubic Scaling for Images IE Fix
• IE, hiding Option Elements with CSS, and Dealing with innerHTML.
• Fixed Position and Opacity Filter Bug in Internet Explorer
• Render alternate layouts in IE6 with only CSS
• Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs
• 10 Awful IE Bugs and Fixes
• IE Background RGB Bug

Resources

• CSS Cheat Sheet.
• Layout Packs - Download and study some layouts that work in multiple browsers.
• Divine CSS - A place for checking out or getting inspiration from various CSS layouts.
• CSS Galleries.
• CSS Vault.
• Zen Garden.
• Layout Gala.