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HTML Playground, html, css reference by example
A sandbox for building and styling HTML. Good for prototyping or playing with a technique.
Conditional-CSS
A tool that will generate browser specific CSS for you and package it all up in a C# HttpHandler (ASHX) so that it will deliver only the CSS for the browser that makes the request. Interesting idea to get around having to use browser hacks and still have all your code in one file for easy maintenance.
50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools | CSS | Smashing Magazine
Great list of CSS tools, tutorials and generators. Good resources for web design.
Information on Border Slants
Tutorial demo on how to make containers on web pages that are shaped like triangles and other polygons with regular and irregular straight edges using no graphics. This is an exploit of how browsers render borders to produce straight angles. Cool technique.
Slantastic
Tutorial demo on how to make containers with irregular straight edges (angles) using only CSS/HTML (no graphics).
Tripoli - a CSS standard for HTML rendering | DevKick Lab
A set of CSS standards for a generic cross-browser rendering of HTML 4 tags. It resets all elements and browser defaults so you can start with a standard base. Separates content from typographical layout and supports W3C standards. Also includes a demo generator with different 3 column/header/footer layouts.
CSS Sprites2 Refactored: Building an Unobtrusive jQuery Plugin | Raleigh Web Design & Development | New Media Campaigns
An implementation of the CSS Sprites approach to elements with changing image states that is wrapped in a jQuery plugin. Allows you to choose the transition animation between the states which is a nice enhancement from the standard CSS only version.
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS
Handy tool by the YUI guys that will generate the HTML/CSS for you for page layouts with parts you specify (columns, text wrapping, headers, footers, etc.). Also optimizes for SEO by letting you put the most important containers first in document order even if they're not arranged that way on the displayed page. Nice tool.
7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code | CSS | Smashing Magazine
Well done list of CSS best practices with links to other resources that take them further. Great link to hand over to friends who are getting started with CSS or need some refreshers.
Using CSS to Do Anything: 50+ Creative Examples and Tutorials
Nice list of extreme CSS tutorials and examples.
Nihilogic : Javascript Image Effects
A javascript library that encapsulates the image manipulation features of the popular browsers. Features only work in browsers that support them, of course, but the library standardizes the access to them so that you don't have to worry about making those checks yourself. Uses some of the features of HTML 5.0's canvas for browsers that can use that.
Sanscons | SOME RANDOM DUDE
A set of free small icons with transparent backgrounds so the color of the icons can be designated by CSS. They also come with 3 border styles, block, rounded courners and nearly circular. I think they could be used as sprites as well.
Perfect multi-column CSS liquid layouts - iPhone compatible
A set of hack-less CSS examples of various liquid layout configurations. A nice starting point when designing a site. Some of the layouts are relatively complex. This will save a lot of time on the next project.
SonSpring | Removing Dotted Links
How to get rid of those annoying dots around active links in FF and IE (for use with the text-indent method of image replacement).
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a:active
{
outline: none;
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:focus
{
-moz-outline-style: none;
}
» 10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it… - Web Design Marketing Podcast & Blog
Examples of CSS tweaks for use with the few standard fonts that are available on everyone's computers to create elegant typography for websites. Interesting uses of letter-spacing and line-height to dress up your limited font choices.
The Sea of Ideas » Blog Archive » Coverflow, anyone?
Using WebKit's latest implementation (Safari 3.1) to exhibit CSS transforms. It's really cool! Still works but not as "slick" in other browsers because of the jQuery slider, and the author is going to port it to work with the new canvas element supported in FireFox 3.0.
Typogridphy — A Typographical and Grid Layout CSS Framework From Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry
A CSS framework that promotes standard print typographical rules. Base on the 960 Grid System. It allows easy user resizing of text because it's standardized on EMs. It also supports "vertical rhythm" ensuring that all lines of text line up horizontally.
Web Development Bookmarklets
Some tools to help with debugging and troubleshooting web development contained as bookmarklets. Some of these do what FireBug or some of the standard sidebar tools in FireFox do, but could be useful in other browsers.
24 ways: Diagnostic Styling
How to use CSS to find things in legacy HTML that should be cleaned up to make the site more accessible, such as font and center tags, and leaving alt text off of images.
Maximum and Minimum Height and Width in Internet Explorer • Perishable Press
How to use the IE proprietary expression attribute to fix the IE specific problem of not rendering min and max-heights in a compliant way. The downfall is that it will fail if the user has disabled javascript.
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