CSS examples Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding | CSS Advertisement Sometimes being a web-developer is just damn hard. Particularly coding is often responsible for slowing down our workflow, reducing the quality of our work and sleepless nights with pizza and coffee laying around the laptop. One year ago we’ve published the post with 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without where we provided references to the most useful CSS-techniques which are often used in almost every project. In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. Thanks to all developers who contributed to the CSS-based design over the last year. CSS-Techniques 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 13 Awesome Javascript CSS Menus 13 “fresh” JavaScript+CSS-based navigation menus in a brief overview. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Further Techniques 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. It's done.
CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists One of the minor holy grails of XHTML and CSS is to produce a single, semantically logical ordered list that wraps into vertical columns. The ideal situation, in my view, would be a single XHTML list whose wrapping is controlled entirely by CSS. Further, the wrapped list should tolerate text resizing (easily accomplished by styling everything in ems). CSS and the browsers that support it don’t yet provide us with “vertical wrap,” so we have to augment basic list markup with additional attributes and styling rules to achieve the effect. We’ll be shooting for something that looks a bit like this: (Why, you’ve doubtless been pondering, is this article entitled “CSS Swag”? Watch your step#section1 I’ll warn you up front. While each of these methods is simple enough to set up, the acid test comes when you add or remove list items in the course of website maintenance. The reality is not so ideal. So why do we bother? To work, then. First, expunge all white space#section2 See Example 1. Easy, now.
CSS Layout - 100% height Min-height The #container element of this page has a min-height of 100%. That way, if the content requires more height than the viewport provides, the height of #content forces #container to become longer as well. Relative positioning Because #container has a relative position, #footer will always remain at its bottom; since the min-height mentioned above does not prevent #container from scaling, this will work even if (or rather especially when) #content forces #container to become longer. Padding-bottom Since it is no longer in the normal flow, padding-bottom of #content now provides the space for the absolute #footer. Scale the text size a bit or resize your browser window to test this layout. Back to CSS Examples
Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative absolute float 1. position:static The default positioning for all elements is position:static, which means the element is not positioned and occurs where it normally would in the document. Normally you wouldn't specify this unless you needed to override a positioning that had been previously set. 2. position:relative If you specify position:relative, then you can use top or bottom, and left or right to move the element relative to where it would normally occur in the document. Let's move div-1 down 20 pixels, and to the left 40 pixels: Notice the space where div-1 normally would have been if we had not moved it: now it is an empty space. It appears that position:relative is not very useful, but it will perform an important task later in this tutorial. 3. position:absolute When you specify position:absolute, the element is removed from the document and placed exactly where you tell it to go. Let's move div-1a to the top right of the page: What I really want is to position div-1a relative to div-1. Footnotes 10.
A List Apart: Articles: Sliding Doors of CSS A rarely discussed advantage of CSS is the ability to layer background images, allowing them to slide over each other to create certain effects. CSS2’s current state requires a separate HTML element for each background image. In many cases, typical markup for common interface components has already provided several elements for our use. Article Continues Below One of those cases is tabbed navigation. What if we could take the exact same markup from the tabs above, and turn them into something like this: With simple styling, we can. Where’s the Innovation? Many of the CSS-based tabs I’ve seen suffer from the same generic features: blocky rectangles of color, maybe an outline, a border disappears for the current tab, a color changes for the hover state. Prior to a more widespread adoption of CSS, we started seeing a lot of innovation in navigation design. Pure text navigation is much easier to maintain and loads more quickly than text-as-image navigation. Tab Creation#creation
Formalize CSS - Teach your forms some manners! 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | CSS Advertisement Many companies try to create a great experience for customers. But few are willing to make the changes required to deliver on that promise. CSS is important. Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time – of course, if you are able to find them in time. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques here at Smashing Mag you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 Powerful Tips And Tricks For Print Style Sheets7 5. Generated content was first introduced in the CSS2 specification. 7. 8. 9. 10. Stephen Shaw introduces a technique for perfect horizontal and vertical centering in CSS, at any width or height. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. The web is growing up. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52.
HOW TO: Get Started with Less Framework The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. For the past few years, CSS grid systems have become increasingly popular with web designers. Thanks to efforts like Nathan Smith's 960.gs, designing with a grid is less complicated, and better looking sites can be crafted with ease. One of my favorite CSS grid systems of late is Less Framework. In May 2010, Ethan Marcotte's "Responsive Web Design" helped spur a movement of building websites designed to fluidly adapt to various platforms and device sizes — think mobile optimized sites and tablet-specific layouts — without the need for an entirely different design or special URL. Less Framework is, in my opinion, one of the best ways for web developers without lots of experience in designing responsive websites (or media queries in general) to take advantage of this new trend. Knowing the Basics Guides and Templates Less-Ready Themes
CSS Layout Generator About the CSS Layout Generator The CSS Layout Generator was first released by Tony Aslett in October 2003, since then over 871,000 layouts have been generated. Updated in November 2010, HTML5 doctype can now be selected and a simple HTML5 template with appropriate tags will be created. Other HTML and XHTML doctypes are still available. The generator helps you create the structure of your website template using valid HTML and CSS. You can create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. The generator requires a modern DOM capable browser with JavaScript enabled. Instructions To create your layout select the structural elements your site requires (header, footer, columns). Info popups are available where you see InfoMore info example :) icon, just hover over it for more information. Join the CSS Forum to suggest changes or ask for help where needed. Author: Tony Aslett
HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard Compatibility Notes If you are using Internet Explorer 6, you should be able to use this wizard with only minor limitations. This page does not work with Opera 8 or IE 5 on Mac. Internet Explorer 6 does not support the border-spacing CSS2 table property. It also does not support any Netscape-specific CSS properties that are prefixed with -moz, and has limited support for the cursor property. Table Border Style Wizard Welcome to the totally revamped HTML and CSS border style wizard! The style sheet code generated by this wizard shows the easy way to apply a style to a table. The above example doesn't show it, but you can also efficiently alternate the row colors in an HTML table by using inheritance. The -moz-border-radius style tag will be rendered in browsers based on the Gecko Runtime Engine. HTML Toggle Buttons You might also have noticed the interesting toggle buttons that control the table style. This is a lot of work to do something fairly simple. Get Firefox Now! Links
15 Best Bootstrap Design Tools Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster. In this post, we have gathered 10 best bootstrap design tools for the coming year. Bootstrap is the most commonly used front end framework in 2013 and many of you must have played with it. Therefore, we thought to compile a list of some useful bootstrap design tools for you. As a designer, it is always useful to look for some more design tools and options to make designing and developing tasks easier. Here, we are presenting 10 best bootstrap tools for 2014. Bootstrap Designer Bootstrap Designer is an online design tool, producing awesome HTML5 templates based on Bootstrap framework. Get Kickstrap Kickstrap seamlessly combines Bootstrap with top-tier web technologies. Bootply Bootply is integrated with other popular Bootstrap plugins, micro-libraries and frameworks. Bootstrap Button Generator It’s easy. Easel Layoutit Bootswatch Boottheme Custome Font Tool WordPress Twitter Bootstrap CSS