ne of the areas that web design is lacking in, is a way to reliably provide beautiful fonts for our designs. Thankfully, we are close to being able to make use of a CSS rule that makes diverse font use so much simpler.
Starting with CSS3, we can control an elements' opacity with CSS. The opacity property is in fact one of the earliest and most widely implemented CSS3 properties. CSS3 also defines a more powerful way to control an element's transparency: RGBA value
At the heart of CSS are its selectors. They are after all what allow us to apply styles to a given element in our (X)HTML. Sometimes though, there is a desire to apply a style based on an elements state. That is where pseudo-classes come into play.
Being wrong is a good thing. I know...we've been told our entire lives that it's better to be right than wrong. I think, though, that in the design/development industry, it's good to be wrong sometimes.
Respecting what we don't understand is if not impossible then extremely hard to do. Without some sort of knowledge of the process and steps involved in arriving at the solution, how can we really respect the work required to make the solution? I thi
With WebKit and IE8 both implementing support for the W3C Selectors API, it's time we familiarize ourselves with how we can harness the power of CSS in Javascript.
Originally, it was never going to get this complex. The internet was never meant to be this popular. However, as time has gone by and the internet has evolved, it is becoming important to be able to provide our content to a wide variety of devices.
Using the z-index to affect stacking order in CSS is a much deeper topic than it may appear at first. The idea seems quite simple, but if we take a look we can see that there is actually quite a bit going on here that warrants a closer examination.
There has been an awful lot of talk around the web community about Microsoft's new feature in IE8 - version targeting. Initially, I hated the idea. However, instead of jumping in blindly, I thought it deserved a more detailed look on my part.
Adding a link's href to a print-out adds more value to the printed version of a site. CSS is enough to take care of it in most browsers, but for IE we have to utilize a lesser known Javascript event.
Understanding specificity in CSS is not a new concept, nor is it overly complex. Learning it, however, can help to make your troubleshooting and development go much more smoothly.