CSS

Cascading Style Sheets are used to define the presentation layer of websites. How CSS works is not always self-evident, so many of these articles explain various aspects of using CSS.

Style Master CSS podGuide

A CSS guide for your iPod (3rd generation or newer).

Posted on December 15, 2004

Creating Liquid Faux Columns

How to create equal height liquid columns with CSS.

Posted on December 15, 2004

The Marriage of Presentation and Structure

A presentation by Molly E. Holzschlag and Ethan Marcotte.

Posted on December 14, 2004

Clearing floated images in body text

A problem that I’ve been running into more often in these days of CSS based layouts than I did back…

Posted on December 14, 2004

Float Layouts

A guide to one of the trickier aspects of CSS: floating.

Posted on December 11, 2004

Relatively Absolute

Nice and thorough explanation of positioning with CSS.

Posted on December 7, 2004

Internet Explorer is already breaking the web

Would the web really break if Microsoft fixed IE? Molly Holzschlag made a post about Breaking the web the other…

Posted on December 2, 2004

Scalable rounded edges

Turn a definition list into a scalable box with rounded corners.

Posted on November 25, 2004

Invasion of the Body Switchers

A List Apart is back, with a new take on style sheet switching.

Posted on November 19, 2004

Stylegala v.02

Stylegala has relaunched with a new layout, a news area, and more.

Posted on November 10, 2004

:target and conditional text display

The :target psudo-class and the ^ substring matching attribute selector put to work.

Posted on November 10, 2004

Image replacement considered evil

Some interesting observations on image replacement.

Posted on November 8, 2004

The Underscore Hack

A useful looking CSS hack.

Posted on November 6, 2004

Uncollapsing Margins

Eric Meyer explains CSS margin collapsing and how to avoid it.

Posted on November 4, 2004

Mozilla, clearers, and dropped floats

I’ve come a cross a very strange bug in late Mozilla builds. It seems to have spread to the latest…

Posted on November 3, 2004

Scrollable Table

How to use CSS to allow scrolling within an HTML table.

Posted on October 28, 2004

Scrolling Drop Shadows

A neat trick to add drop shadows to the top and bottom of a document.

Posted on October 20, 2004

Global White Space Reset

A follow-up to a previous post on resetting all CSS margins and paddings.

Posted on October 19, 2004

CSS Negotiation

Basic CSS rules to start a new style sheet with.

Posted on October 16, 2004

Styling even more form controls

This is a follow-up to my previous post about Styling form controls. For some background info and comments, you may…

Posted on October 14, 2004

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