Links tagged with “css”
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Styling buttons to look like links | Natalie Downe
For the very few occasions when you want to make a submit button look like a standard link. Not that you should. (via Simon Willison)
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Minify - Google Code
“Minify is a PHP5 app that can combine multiple CSS or Javascript files, compress their contents, and serve the results with HTTP encoding and headers that allow optimal client-side caching.” (via Dotcode)
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Bits & Pixels – Blog Archive – Cross-browser transparent columns
How to make the background of a block semi-transparent but have the content opaque. Bit of a palaver, but it works.
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Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | A css only dropdown menu
Sounds good but haven’t explored it thoroughly.
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When can I use…
“Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies.” A lot of waiting involved. (via Dotcode)
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Font Matrix
Nice grid of what fonts are available in different OSes with different installs of software.
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Unit Interactive :: Blog :: Better CSS Font Stacks
Sensible examples of lists of fonts to use in CSS.
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Facing up to Fonts | Slides and notes
Interesting presentation on which fonts are available to use on the web, and how best to specify combinations of them. (via Blech)
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Recreating the button | stopdesign
Doug Bowman on how buttons were developed on Google apps. Good HTML/CSS cleverness. (via Simon Willison)
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The Grid System
Nice resource on designing web sites using a grid. All we need now is a resource on designing web sites with DECENT LINK STYLES.
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Battle of the CSS Frameworks | Capsize Designs
Handy summary of several CSS frameworks, pros and cons. (via Infovore)
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Paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames
An easy way to apply Internet Explorer CSS hacks. So simple that, in retrospect, it’s hard to believe no one’s thought of it before. Smashing.
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New clearing method needed for IE7? | 456 Berea Street
So I don’t need to Google the clearfix fix again.
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A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards
Lovely CSS bar charts and sparklines created in HTML and CSS.
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Equidistant Objects with CSS - CSS-Tricks
Spacing things out horizontally with CSS. (via Simon Willison)
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Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Reset Reloaded
I keep Googling this, so bookmarking it might be easier.
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Dompdf - The PHP 5 HTML to PDF Converter
Uses CSS rules to style the PDF output I think (can’t get the demo to work…).
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Styling File Inputs with CSS and the DOM // ShaunInman.com
File input fields are stubbornly resistant to beautifying. A new way to make them pretty. (via Daring Fireball)
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Blueprintcss - Google Code
In-progress CSS framework for constructing grid-based web page layouts. (via Daring Fireball)
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Infovore » The CSS Redundancy Checker
Checks your CSS file for all the selectors that aren’t used in the list of HTML files or URLs you feed it. Clever Tom.
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Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing » Middleware Infrastructure
Magic percentages for getting the same font size on different platforms.
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53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | Smashing Magazine
Handy to have so many in one place. (via Daring Fireball)
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Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
What the title says. Very handy. (via Rodcorp)
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Web Development with… Safari : journal : hicksdesign Ο°
If you download a WebKit nightly build there’s a handy inspector for debugging CSS problems in Safari.
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Aplus :: z-pos
Detailed exploration of an Internet Explorer CSS z-index bug. It saved my sanity last week.
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ColorMatch 5K :: the original
complicated colour scheme generator (crashed my browser once though)
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Color Blender
Eric Meyer’s nifty colour blender
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Overview : Xyle scope : Cultured Code
Rather smart HTML- and CSS-examining application for the Mac. Looks complicated, but I imagine it could be invaluable over time.
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The Man in Blue > footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer
An even newer way of getting a footer to stick to the bottom of the viewport or the content.
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Super simple clearing floats - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style
A remarkably non-hacky way to get containing divs to expand to the full depth of their floated descendants (ie, goodbye “clear:both” elements?). (via Tim)
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FooterStick › css › Learn › solarDreamStudios
Make a footer stick to bottom of the viewport where appropriate. (via blech)
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Six Apart ProNet Articles - yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows
May give it a whirl sometime. (via Yoz again)
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Maratz.com » archive » Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer
Summary of IE CSS hacks. Nice to see them covered clearly in once place.
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Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours
More Ajaxy stuff to investigate when time allows.
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[css-d] Font size inheritance
So that when, yet again, I forget how to fix IE5’s inability to inherit font sizes into table cells, I can find the answer.
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List-based CSS / JavaScript menus
What it says. Seems to work in most browsers you’d care about, and degrades nicely in others.
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Using CSS to highlight a page’s current
(Posted ages ago but the date got mangled while importing to del.icio.us)
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Piefecta - A superb 3-col tableless layout
For future reference.
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Front Page - css-discuss
The wiki for the css-discuss email list, chock full of answers to common questions. Handy.
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IE Doubled Float-Margin Bug - CSS fixes and workarounds
Because I keep hitting this bug and keep forgetting how to work around it.
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Mike Davidson: Introducing sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text
Replacing HTML text with Flash-rendered text just to make it look prettier seems like precious designer overkill to me. But it’s very clever and it does work.
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Centricle : css filters (css hacks)
A big colourful pit of nasty CSS hacks.
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Johannes Koch’s How to hide CSS from buggy browsers page
The URL that almost every website points to is now broken and this is the new home, which is a bugger to find.
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CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death: A List Apart
Although this method of CSS rollovers works better on Mac IE.
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Fast Rollovers Without Preload (CSS)
So I don’t lose the link again.
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Dracos - IE CSS bugs when using floats and background-color
Another nasty Internet Explorer problem I was having the other day.
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Stopdesign | The IE Factor
I wonder how much time has been globally wasted thanks to Internet Explorer’s awful handling of CSS.
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Topographic page layout
A bookmarklet that uses background colours rather than borders to make a page’s HTML structure clear.