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.

The Art and Science of CSS (Book review)

Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith, and Jonathan Snook get together to deliver some good tips on implementing design elements with CSS.

Posted on January 29, 2008

Choose an accessible image replacement method

When you have to use image replacement for text, choose a method that causes as few problems as possible for as few people as possible.

Posted on December 3, 2007

Screen readers sometimes ignore display:none

Using display:none does not always hide content from screen readers like JAWS and Window-Eyes, but there is a workaround.

Posted on November 7, 2007

CSS diagnostics with XRAY and MRI

John Allsopp has written a couple of handy bookmarklets that help you troubleshoot CSS without having to install a browser extension.

Posted on October 30, 2007

The resurrection of downloadable Web fonts

Downloadable fonts in TrueType format are now supported by nightly builds of Apple WebKit. Will it catch on this time around?

Posted on October 9, 2007

Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS (Book review)

Virginia DeBolt teaches beginners and designers and developers who need to update their skills how to write standards-based HTML and CSS.

Posted on July 30, 2007

Westciv’s free Web standards courses restarting

The first section of Westciv’s 12 week online course on CSS was published on Monday, June 18, 2007.

Posted on June 20, 2007

Keep HTML and CSS out of my inbox. Please.

Jeffrey Zeldman thinks HTML and CSS in e-mail sucks, and I agree.

Posted on June 11, 2007

Reasons for code bloat

Chris Heilmann talks about what causes the code on Web projects to grow out of control.

Posted on June 4, 2007

Is it time for CSS 2.2?

Is it time to form a 2nd Generation CSS Samurai to create a CSS 2.2 specification?

Posted on May 25, 2007

Why styling form controls with CSS is problematic

Eric Meyer explains the technical reasons for form controls being so hard to style consistently across platforms.

Posted on May 24, 2007

Creating bulletproof graphic link buttons with CSS

How to use CSS and two images to create flexible, shrinkwrapping, image based link buttons.

Posted on May 22, 2007

How to prevent HTML tables from becoming too wide

A rarely used CSS property comes to the rescue when dealing with oversized content in tables.

Posted on April 25, 2007

Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (Book review)

Andy Clarke combines technical know-how and wicked graphic design skills to create a fantastic, forward-looking book on CSS.

Posted on April 20, 2007

Pro CSS Techniques (Book review)

Jeff Croft, Ian Lloyd, and Dan Rubin explain solid, practical CSS techniques that you can use in real, professional Web projects.

Posted on March 26, 2007

IE 7 does not resize text sized in pixels

The Page Zoom feature has led to people thinking that IE 7 lets the user resize text sized in pixels or absolute units. It does not.

Posted on March 20, 2007

Browser testing CSS and JavaScript

My preferred CSS and JavaScript browser testing order.

Posted on February 26, 2007

New CSS properties in Safari

Safari gets support for multi-column layout and the text-stroke and box-shadow CSS properties.

Posted on February 6, 2007

The W3C CSS Validator Fuji release

A new version of the W3C CSS Validator has been released. CSS 2.1 is now the default profile.

Posted on January 11, 2007

Styling form controls with CSS, revisited

Screenshots from 8 browsers on 4 operating systems showing the effects of CSS applied to form controls.

Posted on January 9, 2007

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