Kick-Start Your Project: A Collection of Handy CSS Snippets Don't start your project with an empty style sheet: there are many great snippets that can make your life easier and speed up web development. We are going to show you some handy snippets that you might find useful for kick-starting your next project. In one of the previous articles “Basic Ready-to-Use CSS Styles”, we saw how we could create a suite of classes to help the design process while making a website. I hope you made your own set of patterns! Today we are going to see how we can continue this exercise with some things a little bit more technical. Indeed, isn’t there some properties or CSS tricks you always have to check the syntax for, every single time you want to use them? Of course you do my friends! Before we go, let me tell you how I divided this article: Shorthand classes Let’s begin with shorthand classes, which are a very common things. The best example is probably the one where you have some text and an image you want to include on the left side of the text. Miscellaneous
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CSS Animations Friend: You should learn how to write CSS!Me: …Friend: CSS; Cascading Style Sheets. If you’re serious about web design, that’s the next thing you should learn.Me: What’s wrong with <font> tags? That was 8 years ago. Thanks to the hard work of Jeffrey, Andy, Andy, Cameron, Colly, Dan and many others, learning how to decently markup a website and write lightweight stylesheets was surprisingly easy. They made it so easy even a complete idiot (OH HAI) was able to quickly master it. And then… nothing. Fast forward a couple of years to late 2006. Back in the time machine. Epic win? Howto: A basic spinner No matter how fast internet tubes or servers are, we’ll always need spinners to indicate something’s happening behind the scenes. There are some downsides to this though: It’s only _semi_-transparent: If you change your mind and pick a slightly different background color, you need to go back to the site, set all the parameters again, and replace your current image. Looks semantic enough to me!