The Demise of CSS: Why Sass and Languages Like it Will Triumph

Sass is essentially a programming language for designers. It is extremely limited when compared with other languages, but it does a magnificent job of translating the core concepts of a programming language in a way that makes sense for styling a document…

IE CSS3 pseudo selectors

e-css3.js allows Internet Explorer to identify CSS3 pseudo selectors and render any style rules defined with them. Simply include the script in your pages and start using these selectors in your style sheets and they’ll work in IE…

CSS charts – Bar Charts Created with Pure CSS

For ultimate performance try these really fast bar charts that don’t need any plugins or rely heavily on JavaScript. Just pure and wholesome bar charts in CSS…

CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design

Progressive enhancement is a good thing, and CSS3 is even better. Combined, they enable designers to create lighter, cleaner websites faster and easier than ever before. CSS3 can do some pretty amazing stuff: text shadows, rgba transparency, multiple background images, embedded fonts, and tons more. It’s awesome, but not all browsers are up to snuff. […]

How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3

Yes, it’s possible to create a simple and nice 3D layout playing with some CSS3 stuff, only using code and without the help of Photoshop. We want to make 3D elements without images. There are some properties of the CSS3 languages that can help us to accomplish this mission. We will use box-shadow to create […]

CSS Selectors and Pseudo Selectors and Browser Support

The following is a range of CSS tests of the most common browser support for selectors and pseudo selectors. The tests includes basic stuff from the good old days of CSS1 and funky stuff from the future CSS3…

The importance of the !important CSS declaration

The !important declaration has been valid since CSS1 but it seems to have acquired a bad reputation over the years. Even if the !important declaration should be used with caution, it’s a very useful and powerful expression that much deserves its place in our CSS world. This article offers a guide to what the declaration […]

Clean CSS – Optimize and Format your CSS

A useful online tool to format and optimize your CSS files. Lots of options that enable full control of the process…

Better Image Preloading with CSS3

I recently added to my growing library of image-preloading methods with a few new & improved techniques. After posting that recent preloading article, an even better way of preloading images using pure CSS3 hit me. Using CSS3’s new support for multiple background images, we can use a single, existing element to preload all of the […]

How to Create a Cool Anaglyphic Text Effect with CSS

Anaglyphs are those amazing 3D images that are created by offsetting two of the red, green and blue channels, and are viewed with those nerdy looking 3D glasses with different coloured lenses. I don’t know if this effect works for real, as I’ve unfortunately misplaced my 3D specs, but it’s a pretty cool text effect […]

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