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.

Create a design for the CSS Toolshed

An updated templates pack and step-by-step instructions on creating a CSS Toolshed entry are now available.

Posted on December 5, 2005

Modern web browsers have CSS bugs too

Internet Explorer has a lot of frustrating bugs in its CSS implementation. But it’s not the only web browser to have CSS bugs.

Posted on November 30, 2005

Resolution dependent style switching

If liquid or elastic layouts are not your thing, take a look at this for a more flexible way of keeping your fixed width layout.

Posted on November 16, 2005

CSS Toolshed: A CMS Zen Garden

A CSS Zen Garden-like site that simulates a CMS-based site instead of just a single, static page.

Posted on November 13, 2005

Flexibility makes working with CSS easier

Let your design be flexible instead of rigid and you will avoid lots of frustration when creating CSS-based layouts.

Posted on November 12, 2005

Developing maintainable CSS in a team environment

Some guidelines to make developing and maintaining large CSS files in a team environment easier.

Posted on October 31, 2005

Minimum and maximum padding and margin wanted

Being able to set the minimum and maximum values for margin and padding would be very handy for liquid layouts.

Posted on October 27, 2005

Tips and techniques for mobile web design

Covering two approaches to designing for mobile devices: handheld stylesheets and mobile-specific sites.

Posted on October 27, 2005

The ultimate multi-column CSS layout

Fully flexible source order of columns, equal height columns, and vertical grids - all in the same layout.

Posted on October 26, 2005

CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 3

Part 3 of 3 in a series of articles explaining the selectors available in CSS 2.1.

Posted on October 24, 2005

Google, SEO and using CSS to hide text

If you use CSS to hide text for legitimate reasons like increasing accessibility or usability, make sure that it cannot be mistaken for spam.

Posted on October 21, 2005

About using CSS hacks

Whether you are using CSS hacks or conditional comments, keep an eye on what happens when IE7 is released.

Posted on October 20, 2005

Are HTML and CSS easy?

HTML and CSS are not as easy as some people like to think. They are easy to get started with, but very difficult to master.

Posted on October 18, 2005

Overflow problems in Internet Explorer

Dissection of bugs that can occur with oversized content in Internet Explorer for Windows.

Posted on October 16, 2005

Stop using CSS hacks now

Still using CSS hacks for Internet Explorer? Kick the habit now or you’ll be sorry.

Posted on October 13, 2005

Form accessibility and usability

Examples of techniques that improve usability and accessibility of web forms.

Posted on October 10, 2005

CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 2

Part 2 of 3 in a series of articles explaining the selectors available in CSS 2.1.

Posted on October 10, 2005

Maintaining CSS files

How can we prevent stylesheet files from becoming too difficult and time-consuming to maintain?

Posted on October 9, 2005

Collecting links for printing

Collect all URIs in a document and display them in a tidy list for printing.

Posted on September 29, 2005

CSS3 Multi-column layout considered harmful

Please think twice before using multiple columns to display longer articles on-screen.

Posted on September 28, 2005

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