Best Css Tools And Tutorials

July 18th, 2010

For more of this visit this link LAYOUTS Layout Galaby Alessandro Fulciniti - a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download! Look Ma, No Tables.CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit ThreeColumnLayoutscss-discuss - Bob Easton Open Source Web DesignDownload and upload free web designs Open Web DesignDownload and upload free web designs Sample CSS Page LayoutsHere are a range of CSS page layouts, including 2 column and 3 column layouts - free to use and abuse as needed Yet Another Multicolumn LayoutA multi-column layout CSS LayoutsStu Nicholls - Three columns, CSS frame, “Fixed”, Cross browser… Read More...

Formatting Text with CSS

April 1st, 2010

Setting Up the HTML Code The HTML code for this css tutorial contains three paragraphs of text as shown below. The contents of these paragraphs are wrapped inside <font> elements. The first paragraph has been set to a larger font size. It has also been colored red and style bold and italic. <p align="center"> <font size="4" color="#990000" face="times, times new roman"> <b><i>Example of Text Style with CSS</i></b> </font> </p><p> <font size="2" face="arial, helvetica"> Here is another paragraph using inline css </font> </p> <p> <font size="2" face="arial, helvetica"> Here is third paragraph using inline css </font> </p> <p> <font size="2" face="arial, helvetica"> inline css can be fun Read More...

How to Css: Working with Padding

February 3rd, 2010

Padding can be applied to the outside edges of the content are of any block level or inline element. Padding creates the space between the edge of the element and its content. Like margins, padding can be applied to individual sides of a box: p {padding: 10px;} h1{padding-top: 0px;} h2{padding-right: 0px;} h3{padding-left: 0px;} h4{padding-bottom: 0px;} Padding can also be applied using a single shorthand property Read More...

How To, Get great looking Transparencies with RGBa

January 22nd, 2010

CSS 3.0 has a great new features called RGBa. You can now make a transparent background, transparent text, or just about anything else transparent with RGBa. .myClass { background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.5) } The above tag will color your area with a white background that is 50% transparent. The only issue with RGBa at this time is that IE doesn't support it 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 work with content areas.

October 3rd, 2009

The content are of a box can be given width, height, and color. Width and height can be specified in points (equal to 1/72 of an inch), picas (equal to 12 points), pixels, ems, exes, millimeters, centimeters, inches, or percents. p { width: 100pt ;} p { width: 20pc;} p { width: 300px;} p { width: 40em;} p { width: 50ex;} p { width: 600mm;} p { width: 8in;} p { width: 50%;} The color property can be used to style the text color Read More...

CSS, How to properly use Border Styles.

August 26th, 2009

The border properties specify the width, color and style of the border of an element. Shorthand border properties include border-top, border-bottom, border-right, border-left and border. p {border-top: 1px solid red} p {border-right: 2px solid blue} p {border-bottom: 1px solid red} p {border-top: 2px solid black} h1 {border: 1px solid black}

CSS, How to Padding Padding and more Padding

August 24th, 2009

Padding can be applied to the outside edges of the content area of any block level or inline element. Padding creates the space between the edge of the element and its content. Like margins, padding can be applied to individual sides of a box. p {padding: 10px} h1 {padding-top:0px} h2 {padding-right:5px} h2 {padding-bottom:7px} h3 {padding-left:10px} Padding can alse be applied using a single shorthand property Read More...

CSS, How to deal with background color and images.

August 23rd, 2009

The background-color property sets the background color of an element. The backgound-image property applies a background image to an element, which will appear on top of any background-color. body { background-color:#000 } h1 { background-image:url(header.png); }

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...