When we combine movements (transforms) of inanimate objects over different timeframes (transitions) we get animation. CSS3 expands on what’s possible with transforms and transitions with the aptly named animations module and I’d like to spend some time today looking through that module.
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Transitions are a way to smooth css changes to an element so they’re more natural. However, they don’t define the changes themselves. Today I want to look at a set of more dynamic changes, namely transforms.
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We all want our designs to be functional and usable. We want visitors to easily complete tasks and find what they want. We’d also like to delight them and make their experience enjoyable and memorable.
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The last few posts I’ve been working through the background and borders module for css3. So far we’ve looked at css backgrounds, simple borders, and rounded corners.
Today I want to walk through the border-image property and close with a couple of miscellaneous properties around the boxes we’ve been talking about.
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Last week I walked through the css background property. The other half of the same W3C spec covers borders and so today I want to begin a walk though of css borders.
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You likely use css backgrounds in every site you build. You give an element a background color and tell another element to let a background image repeat. How much do you know about all the other background properties?
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Mention css and tables in the same sentence and controversy is sure to follow. Web designers like myself have been telling you not to use html tables for layouts and now here we have a way to create tables with css alone.
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A few weeks ago I received an email from Pedro Reis asking if I would write a post about the css display property. I thought it would make for an interesting topic as the display property sits at the heart of a lot of what we do in css layouts.
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For the last few weeks I’ve been looking at different css selector patterns. One thing I haven’t mention is the efficiency of the selectors, something Chad commented about on the very first post in the series.
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The last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at different types of css selectors. First we looked at the simple and attribute selectors and then we looked at combinators and some pseudo class selectors.
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