Everything you Know about Clearfix is Wrong

Too often, authors trigger hasLayout without thinking of adding the necessary styling to create the same rendering across all browsers. Because of this, they end up adding IE specific declarations to “patch” their styling. This does not mean we should avoid clearfix at all costs though. It is a great tool which is safe to […]
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inline-block vs float

With display:inline-block finally ready for everyday use across the most popular browsers (in all honesty, it has been for a while now), I quickly hit a pretty big dilemma. When comparing inline-block to floats, it wasn’t immediately clear what the exact differences were and what method to prefer. I looked online but couldn’t find a […]
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CSS3 support in Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8

IE-CSS3 is a script to provide Internet Explorer support for several of the popular new styles available in the upcoming CSS3 standard. How it works, if you view the page in Internet Explorer, some of the elements will be rebuilt by the script in Vector Markup Language VML, an IE-specific vector drawing language. VML supports […]
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cssSandpaper – a CSS3 JavaScript Library

The cssSandpaper JavaScript library looks at the stylesheets in an HTML document and, where possible, smooths out the browser differences between CSS3 properties like transform, opacity, box-shadow and others. This script is not only useful for developers who want to support CSS3 in IE which doesn’t support it in IE natively but in other browsers […]
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CSS Specificity And Inheritance

Understanding a few often overlooked CSS concepts is important. The concepts may be hard to grasp and look boring at first, but understanding them and knowing how to take advantage of them is important. Two of these concepts are specificity and inheritance. Not very common words among Web designers, are they? Talking about border-radius and […]
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Creating a Realistic Looking Button with CSS3

I had previously created the Cadmus “post” button in Photoshop and it was essentially three images for the different states. I wanted to use this style for all our buttons, but doing it with single images is not a good idea. So I set about creating the same style of the buttons with CSS3. And […]
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Create Windows 7 start menu using CSS3 only

I am fascinated with how much you can do with so little using CSS3. Many user interface elements that require images in order to have appropriate visual appearance now can be styled only with CSS3. In order to prove that I assigned myself a task to create Windows 7 start menu only with CSS3 (and […]
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Detecting device size & orientation in CSS

Gone are the days when we could safely assume that most our site visitors would have at least a 1024px-wide screen resolution. With smartphones and tablet computers on the rise, you visitors could also be browsing the web with screen widths ranging from 320px upwards. Does your site look good on a 768px-wide canvas? That’s […]
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CSS3 Background-Clip & @Font-Face

With no clear purpose or plan, I’ve resolved to experiment with CSS3 on a regular basis. Some of these note-posts may be more useful and practical than others, but the only way to know for sure is to learn by doing. That being said, here is another experiment with background-clip: text and @font-face via Typekit…
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How to Dynamically Highlight Content Like Wikipedia Using CSS3

If you’ve ever clicked on a footnote link in a Wikipedia article, you’ve probably noticed that two things happen: 1 the link brings you to the footnote section at the bottom of the page; and 2 the selected footnote is highlighted with a different color. In a list of footnotes, this feature makes it easy […]
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