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Understanding CSS3 border-image

The new CSS3 property border-image is a little tricky, but it can allow you to create flexible boxes with custom borders (or drop shadows, if that’s your thing) with a single div and a single image. In this article I explain how the border-image shorthand property works in today’s browsers…
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Pure CSS collapsible tree menu

The classic tree view, we all know it, it’s used everywhere and it definitely can be useful in the right context. I’ve seen various examples about doing it with CSS and they’ve all required JavaScript. Not content with any of those solutions I investigated doing it with pure CSS, I got a good head start […]
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Font metrics and vertical space in CSS

We put a lot of effort into the quality of the fonts in the Typekit library. As part of that work, we’ve been researching the relationship between font math and CSS, and would like to share what we’ve found. If you’ve ever wondered why some fonts look smaller than others at the same typeset size, […]
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Supersize that Background, Please!

With an advertising world keen to use every inch of a medium for brand or product experience, it is becoming increasingly popular to design websites with full-browser backgrounds. Using CSS, this can be achieved quite easily. Just drop a huge background image in a page with one line of code. But which image size will […]
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CSS Content Property

CSS has a property called content. It can only be used with the pseudo elements :after and :before. It is written like a pseudo selector with the colon, but it’s called a pseudo element because it’s not actually selecting anything that exists on the page but adding something new to the page…
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CSS3 Chess Board

I was browsing the web today and found something exciting. I noticed that there are unicode characters for chess pieces. Always looking for ways to play with CSS3 I decided to try and build a chess board using my new best friend :nth-child and some unicode characters…
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Create A Clean and Stylish CSS3 Contact Form

Building stylish contact forms typically requires the use of images and maybe some JavaScript to create something that looks professional. However, with CSS3 it’s now much easier to create some nice effects that don’t require the use of any images, yet can still look clean and stylish.In this tutorial we’re going to look at a […]
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Understanding the CSS Display Property

One of the most powerful and useful properties in all CSS is, without a doubt, the display property. And yet, it is also one of the least well understood, especially by those just starting out with CSS. So, in this post I’ll try to shed some light on this little CSS gem…
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Flexible, Mobile-First Layouts with CSS3

Some experts are projecting mobile devices to become the dominant medium for web browsing within five years, overtaking browsing on desktop computers. Regardless of how accurate this projection turns out to be, it is clear that formatting websites for mobile-friendly viewing needs to become a staple of web design and development. There are many ways […]
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