CSS: Cascading Style Sheets

July 28th, 2010

The most common applications that style most web pages written in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and XHTML (Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language) is labeled as CSS – Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is a style sheet language used to describe the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language Read More...

How To Style Your Text With CSS

July 17th, 2010

Styling text with CSS is really simple. We can define colors, underline it, make it bold, define the font etc etc. We will start with some basics. First we define the html where we will be working with. This is the text Colorize your text We can select the P tag and add some styles to it Read More...

What are Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

July 12th, 2010

Cascading Style Sheets, also known as CSS, are the most popular and neat way of formatting an html page. There are two versions of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS Level 1 was launched in 1996 and is supported by all browsers. This version is the older of the two and is used mostly for font formatting, text alignment and line spacing Read More...

Designing Using Css, Cascading Style Sheet Website Designs

July 3rd, 2010

Many website development companies, in earlier times used simple HTML to design websites. However, when certain design needed to be changed, it became very tedious to carry out those changes across all the pages of the website. Cascading Style Sheets, also popularly known as CSS, solved this tiresome task of making changes to every web page or the HTML documentWebsite development companies started using CSS to make their work easy of formatting the HTML document Read More...

CSS, How to Style with Margins

December 16th, 2009

When designing a CSS based website it is very useful to understand Margins. I have found that it is much easier to deal with browser compatibility when  one uses proper margin styles. Trying to set a top: -10px seems to cause browser issues that can be easily avoided by using margin-top:-10px. Margins can be applied to the outside of any block level or inline element Read More...

CSS, How to deal with margins?

August 19th, 2009

Margins can be applied to the outside of any block level or inline element. They create space between the edge of an element and the edge of any adjacent elements. Margins  can be applied to individual sides of a box: p { margin-top: 0;} p { margin-right: -5px;} p { margin-bottom: 10px;} p { margin-left: 5px;} Margins can also be applied using a single shorthand property Read More...

CSS, How to Hide Styles from Older Browsers?

August 12th, 2009

Some older browsers, such as Netscape Navigator 4 and IE 4, have poor support for CSS. It is possible to hide styles from these browsers using specific media types and @import rules. All styles will be hidden from Netscape Navigator 4 by changing the link element's media type from screen to screen, projection Read More...

CSS, How to Apply Inline Styles.

August 10th, 2009

CSS, Inline styles can be applied directly to elements in the HTML code using the style attribute. However, inline styles should be avoided wherever possible because the styles are added to the HTML markup. This defeats the main purpose of CSS, which is to apply the same styles to as many pages as possible across your website using external style sheets Read More...