One the techniques I have advocated using for a long time is this:
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}This is part of the “CSS Reset” theory which helps keep your designs consistent across browsers, a very good thing. …
Sometimes the best way to get inspired to design is to look at other great designs. These designs showcase beauty and function over flashiness. There are some amazing and flashy designs out there where I love the design but …
A “deprecated” element is an element the W3C has designated as outdated. These elements should not be used and are generally considered to be “bad code”. If you use a STRICT DOCTYPE, deprecated elements will not pass validation.
The thing …
Check out the statistics for the screen resolutions of all you hip kids who read CSS-Tricks:
On this site, 800×600 doesn’t even make the top ten. Knowing that, I designed this site to make use of that extra pixel …
I read a comment the other day over on CSS Drive from someone named Slackerbabe that I thought was worth repeating.
…Heres a cool way to remember the order of the four selectors, “LVHA (link visited hover active)”,….
Just think
A textarea is an element on a webpage that you can type into. These are commonly used as commenting areas, contact forms or address entry areas. All browsers have defaults styles for textareas which vary. You can take control of …
Reader Delang was having trouble with the CSS Page Loader concept I posted a while ago. So I went and made up an example page. It’s very simple, and it just “fakes” actually loading something. As in, it’s not …
Someone over at Digital Inspiration asked the question:
“How can I send a YouTube Video so that when the person receives it there will not be any other videos in the sidebars that can be opened.”
There is an awesome …
New minimalism in web interface design
You.. and me… and CSS simultaneous
Edit CSS code in Firefox and IE at the same time. Windows only.
Quick web typography tip: Give your <p> elements bottom margin.
ModalBox: easily the nicest download-modify-use …
Grunge is a popular style these days. I thought I’d throw out there a fairly simple “grungy” menu for free download. Feel free to download, alter, and use however you want.
Welcome to the new look for CSS-Tricks. I decided it was time to get down to it and give CSS-Tricks a brand new look. I hope you like it. I think it’s far nicer in both form and function than …