Where Content Management Systems Fit Into the Process
Chris published a post a little while back on where style guides fit into a team’s process. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to offer my take on where content management systems fit in.…
Getting Acquainted with Initial
If someone walked up to me the other day and asked me what the difference between inherit and initial is, I may have replied:
“What, there’s a difference?”…
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What You Should Know About Collapsing Margins
OK, so some spacing walks into a bar, trips and falls on the floor. The bartender asks if he should be cut off and the spacing replies, “No, I’m just a collapsed margin.”
Sorry, dumb joke.…
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Functional CSS Tabs Re-Revisited
Update: We’re redacting this article. Much of it was work originally done by Art Lawry and published on A List Apart in the article Radio-Controlled Web Design. We didn’t appropriately credit that work. Apologies to Art and A List…
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The At-Rules of CSS
The at-rule is a statement that provides CSS with instructions to perform or how to behave. Each statement begins with an @ followed directly by one of several available keywords that acts as the identifier for what CSS should do. …
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HTML vs Body in CSS
The difference between <html></html> and <body></body> is easy to overlook. It seems to be one of those things that falls into the category of trivial. Admittedly, I have a bad habit of applying all global styles to <body></body> and, when …
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Override Gmail’s Mobile Optimized Emails
Many emails are designed with a large screen in mind. Text that looks great on a large screen can be difficult to read on a mobile device, though. If Gmail deems that the font-size of any text in an email is too small to be legible, it will increase the size and flag the message. That’s pretty nice. What could have been illegible is made legible, eliminating the need to pinch and zoom our screens.
It can also be a little frustrating.
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About
Sorry about the cheesy name.
CSS-Tricks launched July 4th, 2007. It used to be, believe it or not, primarily about CSS! Over the years, CSS-Tricks has come to become a site about all things web design and development.…
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Numeric Inputs – A Comparison of Browser Defaults
The spec, purposefully, stops short of telling implementations (browsers) how to handle UI. In this article we’re looking specifically at <input type="number"/>, and you might be surprised to learn that the spec specifically says:
…This specification does not
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Left Half and Right Half Layout – Many Different Ways
A whole bunch of years ago, we posted on this idea here on CSS-Tricks. We figured it was about time to update that and do the subject justice.
Imagine a scenario where you need to split a layout in half. …
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How to Roll Your Own Simple WordPress Podcast Plugin
Let’s say you plan to get into podcasting. You have the recording equipment, an interesting topic, and a good voice that other people want to hear. You seem well on your way to filling earbuds everywhere.
Then there’s the issue …
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