When building a menu or other list of links, it’s generally a good practice to use display: block; or display: inline-block; so that you can increase the size of the link target. The simple truth: bigger link targets are easier …
Have you ever seen an element on a page with transparent borders? I think Facebook originally popularized it giving birth to lightbox plugins like Facebox. I don’t think Facebook sports the look anymore, but it’s still rather neat.
You …
Fonts on the web are essentially vector-based graphics. That’s why you can display them at 12px or 120px and they remain crisp and relatively sharp-edged. Vector means that their shape is determined by points and mathematics to describe the shape, …
When writing CSS3 properties, the modern wisdom is to list the “real” property last and the vendor prefixes first:…
One of the new types of inputs in HTML5 is search.
<input type=search name=s/>It does absolutely nothing in most browsers. It just behaves like a text input. This isn’t a problem. The spec doesn’t require it to do …
Oh, <textarea></textarea>‘s. How many quirks you posses. Here is a collection of nine things you might want to do related to textareas. Enjoy.…
Huge sogging longbottoms? High strength low alloy steel? NOPE, we’re talking Hue, Saturation, Lightness, and alpha, and it’s a way of declaring color in CSS. It looks like this:
#some-element {
background-color: hsla(170, 50%, 45%, 1);
}It is similar …
RGBa is a way to declare a color in CSS that includes alpha transparency support. …