50+ Awesome CSS3 Techniques for Better Designs. CSS3 is gaining momentum, despite the fact that the standard hasn’t even been finalized.
There are hundreds of tutorials out there to teach designers how to use it, but unfortunately a lot of them cover the same ground. And some of the tutorials teach designers to do things that they might not think of as useful, though the techniques can usually be adapted to fit a project perfectly. Below are more than fifty awesome CSS3 tutorials. Many are strictly CSS and HTML based, while others also incorporate JavaScript. If you have a favorite technique or tutorial that’s not included below, please share it in the comments! Layers, absolute and relative positioning and floating elements. Path // → → CSS LAYOUT One of the major benefits of using CSS is that you’re no longer forced to lay your sites out in tables.
The layout possibilities of CSS give you complete control over the positions and dimensions of all page elements. If you’ve tried laying out a page with tables, you have probably been irritated in the past by the inability of your browser to render your page exactly as you had wanted. Table structures aren’t the most flexible of page layout devices, as they weren’t really designed for this purpose. Now however, with some reliable browser support in the current generation of browsers, you have a new and much improved option. CSS Layers - CSS tutorial. With CSS, it is possible to work with layers: pieces of HTML that are placed on top of the regular page with pixel precision.
The advantages of this are obvious - but once again Netscape has very limited support of CSS layers - and to top it off: the limited support it offers is quite often executed with failures. So the real challenge when working with layers is to make them work on Netscape browsers as well. A CSS styled table. A css only dropdown menu further examples. 24th May 2006 Menu #1 - 24th May 2006 This first example is a flexible width top level list that expands to fit the text.It has a fixed height and uses a background image that stretches the full width of the outer div, in this case 750px, and a background div in each top level link to mark the right hand edge of the link.
The top level hover varies the text color and the bottom border color.The sub level hover varies the background color and adds a background square bullet against the top line of each list item. Sub level drop down lists can be positioned anywhere (left/right) beneath the top level list. The sub levels are a fixed size, but can easily be changed to suit your requirements, and have a single pixel border. Menu #2 - 30th May 2006. Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS With Mozilla's "School of Webcraft. Mozilla is getting ready for the January semester of School of Webcraft, a 100% free developer training resource run in partnership with Peer 2 Peer University.
Last semester, the School of Webcraft offered 15 classes; now, Mozilla is trying to get around 30 classes going for the January semester. Classes will be between six and 10 weeks long; they'll revolve around topics relevant to web designers and developers, including HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Previous classes have also included non-developer topics such as organic SEO.
Requisite skill levels will run the gamut from novice to expert. Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks, & Techniques. The Web Standards Project’s (WaSP) Browser Upgrade Initiative (BUI), has spurred many a designer to move towards more standards compliant web design, using CSS rather than tables for layout to save user bandwidth while enhancing underlying semantics, accessibility, and reach.
“Tables are dead…”#section1 Several designers have taken Jeffrey Zeldman’s lead in posting tutorials that have helped us get over the initial hump of table-less design. The first efforts have focused on creating two or more columns using CSS positioning instead of tables, thus allowing for a (complete) separation of structure from presentation. These broader techniques have been documented and archived at Eric Costello’s glish and Rob Chandanais’ Blue Robot. CSS Positioning. Review the W3C CSS standard recommendation.
To use CSS for layout effectively, it helps to know how it's used to position page content. This article gives an overview of the methods and rules that govern visual rendering in the CSS2 specification. It also points out some things to watch out for. Although the specification applies to any device for displaying web pages, this article focuses on how it works in browsers. CSS from the Ground Up. Introduction. Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step. Abstract The Challenge: Replicate WebRef's front page using CSS.
The Solution: CSS and lots of iterations. Rogelio Lizaolo improves on Kwon Ekstrom's CSS version of WebRef's tabled home page. Months in the making, the final design successfully duplicates WebRef's layout without the use of tables. Tableless layout HOWTO. Abstract and status It has been advocated many times that tables shouldn't be use in HTML for layout purposes.
This page shows one way to create a 3 columns layout using CSS only. Please send comments and suggestions to Dominique Hazaël-Massieux. Top 50 Best CSS Articles and Resources. Top 50 Best CSS Articles and Resources January 11th, 2009 | Design | Modern web design is not possible without Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
The flexibility of CSS allows web developers to create websites that load faster and are easier to update. This post features a collection of the best articles and resources dedicated to CSS techniques, tips, hacks, tools, and tutorials. A circular menu with circular sub menus. Date : 10th November 2008 For all modern browsers Information A follow on from the simple single level circular menu, this one adds a sub menu level of smaller icons in a circular pattern within the top level circle. There is also the facility to add a simple description of each icon. Tested in IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari (PC) and Google Chrome. The icons are taken from the Milky set. If you want a zip file of this menu then please email me, but check the requirements in the copyright information below. Copyright. Frames without frames - Introduction.
A word of caution This method no longer works in IE6 under specific circumstances - please see the compatibility section for more information. Overview. SkillShare Forum - CSS Beauty - Scaling image in div to fit full screen but maintain aspect ratio. Toggle. This is a test! Can you see me? Pros: It does not need JavaScript (e.g. for NoScript users)Status is remembered across reloads with no need for cookie tricks Cons: It works in Gecko based browsers (Firefox, SeaMonkey, Flock, Netscape...) and in Opera, but it does not work in Safari and IE :(