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For those of you who like to leave comments here on CSS-Tricks (Thanks, by the way!), I wanted to make it easier for you. You can now register for an account. Then when you are logged in, you don’t have to fill out that Name / Email / Website thing every single time [...]

New Screencast: Starry Night

I’ve been kind of infatuated with this parallax background thing lately, so I thought I’d try and get it out of my system by doing this weeks screencast about it.
Using three layers of alpha transparent PNG files, we can can create a pseudo 3-dimensional looking background for a web page. This screencast covers how to [...]

New Screencast: CSS Formatting

Just posted a new screencast on CSS Formatting. I don’t go into any techniques at all here, I just talk about the different ways you can organize and format your CSS.
Being organized and using good formatting in your CSS files can save you lots of time and frustration during your development process and especially during [...]

Poll Results: What CSS Reset Do You Use?

As of late yesterday here are the results:

I wasn’t surprised to see the Meyer’s reset in the lead. It is very popular, thoughtful, and effective. I was surprised to “What’s a CSS Reset?” at a narrow second place. In a nutshell, a CSS reset removes default styling from page elements so that you are “starting [...]

CSS-Tricks Finally Gets A Print Stylesheet

This is way past due…but it’s finally here: a print stylesheet!

I’ll start by showing you the entire stylesheet, then I’ll explain a little bit about what I was thinking.
body {
font-family: Georgia, serif;
background: none;
color: black;
}
#page {
width: 100%;
margin: 0; padding: 0;
background: none;
}
#header, #menu-bar, #sidebar, h2#postcomment, form#commentform, #footer {
display: none;
}
.entry a:after {
content: ” [" attr(href) "] “;
}
#printed-article {
border: [...]