CSS from the Ground Up

Introduction If you are frightened by the prospects of using Cascading Style Sheets, there's no need to be. Using a computer can be daunting for someone coming to it afresh but after a while, you think nothing of it. It all comes down to taking small steps to begin with and that's what I'm going to do in this series of tutorials. Whether you normally use a WYSIWYG editor and stay clear of that source stuff in the background or even if you have never created a Web page at all, this tutorial will set you off in the right direction. It assumes little or no knowledge of putting a Web page together. What will you need? Nothing special. Don't panic! A graphics editor is not essential because I won't be worrying too much about graphics to begin with. Oh, you will also need a browser, but that goes without saying. If you want to upload your pages to a Web server, you will need some kind of FTP program but don't worry about that for the minute, you will doing everything here on your own computer.

960 Grid System 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. Although the specification applies to any device for displaying web pages, this article focuses on how it works in browsers. It's important to remember that a given browser may not support a given feature or may even implement it incorrectly. The Box Model To understand positioning in CSS you must first understand the box model. content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content margin border padding content Margins are always transparent. Box Types There are two basic types of boxes, block and inline. Normal Flow

shiftzoom.js (zoom and pan functionality) <form name="lst" id="lst" method="post" action=".. shiftzoom.js 3.9 allows you to add zoom and pan functionality to oversized images on your webpages. It also allows you to build interactive applications through the various user commands. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Chrome, Safari and IE 6+. Download shiftzoom.js and include it into your webpages HEAD section. // only if the cursor images for IE are not in the current path <scriptscript type="text/javascript"> shiftzoom.defaultCurpath='images/cursors/'; </script> To add shiftzoom just set the event onload="shiftzoom.add(this);" to a div surrounded image. Mouse- and Keyboard-driven handling: * must be set through preferences by Firefox and Opera (gecko/presto) Keyboard-driven handling: (if focused through mouse over image) * not supported by Firefox and Opera (gecko/presto) Stick/Finger-driven handling: (touch events) Operas cursor handling sucks.

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. Others have chimed in, including Owen Briggs’ Box lesson and Tantek Çelik’s box model hack/workaround, detailed by Eric Costello, and explained by Tantek. “...Long live tables”#section2 The question#section3 One Step at a Time#section4 And the HTML: caption 1 caption 2

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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. Numerous bugs were discovered in Netscape and Internet Explorer in how they handle CSS, and we found some elegant workarounds to these and other problems. Introduction In "Evolution of a Home Page" Andy King threw down the gauntlet, challenging readers to duplicate WebRef's tabled (and fabled) home page in CSS. The ultimate goal is to create a CSS layout that exactly resembles the WebReference.com layout made with tables and also behaves well with small window sizes and large fonts. The target browsers are all the generation five and greater browsers, for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. The Layout Challenge Can this complex layout be replicated using only CSS? 3 Column Layout: Step by Step

Vitamin - A resource for web developers, designers and entrepreneurs 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. Translations of this article are available. Introduction HTML is a structural language, which means it is - or should be - used to add structure into a text through tags. But since the apparition of tables in HTML, it has been very often used for layout purpose, usually split a web page into columns. This document describes one way to create a 3 columns layout and links to other layout techniques. Layout description The technique described below is the one used in the page for new W3C users and allows to build a 3 columns layout, with the following features: It's ideal for homepages since it allows to have a complete text in the center and nice lists of links on the side. Implementation This layout uses CSS absolute positionning.

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). This post features a collection of the best articles and resources dedicated to CSS techniques, tips, hacks, tools, and tutorials. CSS Tips and Techniques - Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3 [Smashing Magazine] - CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques and Best Practices [Noupe] - Powerful CSS Techniques for Effective Coding [Smashing Magazine] - 4 Uber Cool CSS Techniques for Links [Css Globe] - 10 Principles of the CSS Masters [NETTUTS] - 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean [Smashing Magazine] - 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time - Part 1 [Noupe] - Resetting Your Styles with CSS Reset [Six Revisions] - 53 CSS Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without [Smashing Magazine] - 101 CSS Techniques Of All Time - Part 2 [Noupe] - Structural Naming Convention in CSS [Six Revisions] - 10 Challenging but Awesome CSS Techniques [NETTUTS] CSS Templates and Layouts

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