Reading Time: 4 minutesAuthoring HTML and CSS will never be as complex as programming. HTML is, after all, a markup language, and CSS is merely a stylesheet language. CSS is simple enough that the first two or three hours of writing it won’t … Continue reading
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Clever CSS Tricks: using :target to create accordions
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an interview with Jacob Gube from Six Revisions on the subject of exciting developments in CSS3, Eric Meyer said …the power to describe Web 2.0 designs in CSS is insignificant compared with the power to select every third table … Continue reading
Snippets: Class Friendly CSS Triangles
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUntil I get my snippet library up and running in WordPress, I’m storing a lot of my snippets over at GitHub. One of the first things I put up there is a super handy snippet for easy-bake CSS triangles
Stupid CSS3 Tricks: Keeping time without JavaScript
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnother stupid CSS3 trick: Take a bucket-full of CSS3 -webkit animations, add in a table or two that you’ve marked up somewhat semantically, hit refresh and voilá, you have a way to keep track of how much time has passed … Continue reading
Stupid CSS3 tricks: An animated pendulum complete with realistic shadow
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis goes into my category of stupid CSS3 tricks. I think at some point I was playing with animations and timing, and I thought that the coolest and most useless CSS3 thing I could come up with is a pendulum. … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s Day with a CSS3 heart
Reading Time: 2 minutesShow a geek you love her with a heart made lovingly with CSS
CSS Tip: An em isn’t an “m”, but an ex is an “x”
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m in a CSS mailing list and this morning, Vince over at Ghodmode Development shared a fun little experiment showing that an em isn’t an “m” in CSS. I, along with others, more or less responded with “d’uh”. We’ve seen … Continue reading
HTML5 contenteditable and CSS
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy absolute favorite HTML5 attribute is “contenteditable”. It makes the contents of the element editable. It’s an incredibly simple feature that has tons of potential for your website.In fact, I’ve already seen it paired with localStorage or Web SQL APIs … Continue reading
A CSS Form Feedback Boilerplate
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo in a follow-up to my post on layering the feedback with CSS, I’ve created a simple starting point with styling our forms: a form feedback boiler plate.
Layering the feedback with CSS
Reading Time: 4 minutesFeedback Matters Long gone are the days where all we did was stare at a website and absorb content. We fill out contact forms, buy stuff, hold chat sessions, Tweet this and unlike that. These website interactions become more complex … Continue reading