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.

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

CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1

Part 1 of 3 in a series of articles explaining the selectors available in CSS 2.1.

Posted on September 26, 2005

CSS hacking for WYSIWYG CMSs

Many WYSIWYG CMSs that use in-page editing have problems with CSS based layouts.

Posted on September 26, 2005

Accessible “read more” links

Use CSS to make “read more” links more accessible to screen reader users.

Posted on September 24, 2005

Check marking visited links

How to use generated content in CSS to insert a check mark symbol after visited links.

Posted on September 19, 2005

Custom borders with advanced CSS

Using advanced CSS to create custom corners and borders with multiple background images and generated content.

Posted on September 12, 2005

Screen Readers and CSS Layout

Screen readers speak content in the order it is in the markup, not in the order it is displayed on-screen.

Posted on September 12, 2005

CSS Table Gallery

Data tables styled with CSS.

Posted on September 10, 2005

CSS Syntax Checker for BBEdit and TextWrangler

Helps keep your CSS as valid as your markup.

Posted on September 9, 2005

Starting with CSS

A set of CSS rules to use as a starting point.

Posted on September 6, 2005

Print-friendly CSS and usability

A discussion on whether using CSS media types to automatically load a print stylesheet may break user expectations when printing web pages.

Posted on September 6, 2005

Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails

Use CSS to improve the markup of HTML emails.

Posted on September 5, 2005

footerStickAlt - positioning a footer with CSS

A slight modification of the footerStick method for positioning a footer with CSS.

Posted on September 3, 2005

Basic webstandards Workshop

Russ Weakley covers more than the basics in this one.

Posted on September 2, 2005

Architecting CSS

Guidelines for organising CSS.

Posted on August 23, 2005

footerStick

Make the footer stick to the bottom of the viewport. CSS only.

Posted on August 13, 2005

Zoom layout

Doug Bowman explains how to create a single-column layout.

Posted on June 25, 2005

Customising custom corners and borders

How to create your own images for my Transparent custom corners and borders technique.

Posted on June 21, 2005

Falling in love with CSS

Web developers and designers talk about their passion for CSS.

Posted on June 20, 2005

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