SpriteMe – Tool to Generate CSS Sprites

Background images make pages look good, but also make them slower. Each background image is an extra HTTP request. There’s a fix: combine background images into a CSS sprite. But creating sprites is hard, requiring arcane knowledge and lots of trial and error. SpriteMe removes the hassles with the click of a button…

Simple CSS Tips that Go a Long Way

Sometimes it’s the little things that can make all the difference and there are plenty of neat little CSS tips that can help with all aspects of design and development. Here are a few great tips that will help you improve your CSS work and help you get the most out of your code…

CSS3 Hover Tabs without JavaScript

With the new techniques in CSS3 and clever applications of existing CSS it is increasingly stepping on the toes of JavaScript. Which to be honest isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I thought I’d try my hand at something so here is a basic CSS tabbed content section that changes on hover…

Equal Height Columns – Companion Columns Method

The search for a technique that offers real equal height columns leads nowhere because we don’t have full vertical control in current CSS 2.1 implementations cross browser. The available techniques are simulations of columns: a repeated image displaying Faux Columns [Cederholm], columns made of borders [Livingstone], and variations. We couldn’t even fall back on a […]

On Having Layout – The Concept of hasLayout in Internet Explorer

A lot of Internet Explorer’s rendering inconsistencies can be fixed by giving an element “layout”. John Gallant and Holly Bergevin classified these inconsistencies as “dimensional bugs” meaning that they can often be solved by applying a width or height. This leads to a question of why “layout” can change the rendering of and the relationships […]

pseudo-class, pseudo-element, pseudo-CSS: IE bugs

This article is intended to summarize bugs and inconsistencies regarding pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes in IE6 and IE7…

Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques

Certain elements in HTML lend themselves to many situations when marking up a website, one of the more useful of these elements is the HTML list. Using lists, a developer can markup horizontal navigation, dropdown navigation, a list of links, and even scrolling content panels with the help of Javascript. These features can help developers […]

Fixed Positioning in Internet Explorer 6

Fixed positioning has always been a nuisance for web designers because of the lack of support for it in Internet Explorer 6, but I've come up with a solution that allows for cross-browser fixed positioning that doesn't come at the large costs that other techniques result in. If you've been on the hunt for a […]

CSS Browser Compatibility Master Table

This is a general overview table. A “yes” here does not mean a browser supports every tiny detail of the specification correctly. Instead, it means that it supports a workable subset of the specification. In IE’s case this may mean that it supports its proprietary methods and properties, and that those properties are generally equivalent […]

CSS Absolute Positioning: Create a Fancy Link Block

Absolute position is a feature of the CSS2 specification that is supported by all of web browsers. If you posit an element an image, a table, or whatever absolutely on your page, it will appear at the exact pixel you specify. In this tutorial, we will use some tricks to create a fancy link block […]

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