CSS Archive

CSS Selectors: Should You Optimize Them To Perform Better?

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

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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How To Use Structural Pseudo Classes and Pseudo Element Selectors

Monday, September 26th, 2011

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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How To Use CSS Combinators and Simple Pseudo Class Selectors

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Last week we began looking at some of the selectors we have available for hooking css styles into our html. We briefly touched on some simple selectors and mainly focused on attribute selectors.

This week I want to continue and talk specifically about combinators before starting to cover pseudo class selectors.
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Do You Use These 7 Attribute Selectors In Your CSS?

Monday, September 12th, 2011

CSS Selectors are an essential ingredient in developing websites. They’re the hooks our css has into our html. How may different css selector patterns do you regularly use?
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Create Columns Easily With The CSS3 Multi-Column Layout Module

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Last week we looked at the css flexible box module, one of the new css tools to help with site layout. The css multi-column layout module is another that also helps with site layout and has even better support than flexible boxes.
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CSS3 Flexible Box Model

Monday, August 29th, 2011

CSS offers several tools to help with site layout. Over the years we’ve worked mainly with floats, positioning, and margins, but let’s face it, most of us would like more. Fortunately css3 is giving us more tools for layouts. One of those tools is the flexible box.
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6 Methods For Vertical Centering With CSS

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Centering elements vertically with css is something that often gives designers trouble. There are however a variety of methods for vertical centering and each is fairly easy to use. Today I want to present 6 of those methods.
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How To Use Media Queries For Device Targeting

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Media queries are a way to serve different css rules to different devices and device characteristics. They’re the final piece in allowing us to create designs that are truly responsive to our audience and how our visitors choose to view our sites.
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How To Create Flexible Images And Media In CSS Layouts

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

A flexible layout isn’t all that flexible if some of the component parts are fixed. Text easily reflows as it’s container resizes, but what about images and other media? How do we make them flexible to keep our layout flexible?
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How To Develop Elastic Grid Layouts In CSS

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

Flexible layouts are created by using relative measurements as opposed to absolute measurements. The question is relative to what? With elastic layouts the measurements are set relative to something internal to the design, usually the size of the type.
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