In a perfect world, every browser would have the same inherent styling and would render all HTML elements in exactly the same way. Unfortunately, any developer could tell you that this isn’t the case. There are so many issues with […]
CSS3’s line-height property is one that is often underrated and misunderstood. The property can be very helpful in styling certain elements, and it can take many different types of values, including number values, pixel values, and percentages. Let’s apply it […]
CSS3’s text-shadow property is extremely useful in creating many different text effects, the coolest of which is probably an effect that makes the text look like it’s glowing. When combined with some bright colors applied to the text shadow, the […]
With CSS, any HTML element can become (slightly or completely) transparent. The opacity property controls how opaque an element is, and it takes values between 0 and 1. So if you have an image that you want to be slightly […]
Before you master CSS, you need to understand the different ways in which you can apply the CSS to your HTML. There are three basic ways to include style in your code: inline styling, internal stylesheets, and external stylesheets.
Inline styling […]
There are many fun, unique ways to customize your sites using CSS. One of our favorites is changing the default text-selection color to match the theme of your site — it’s a subtle change that adds a nice touch of […]
Font Awesome is a, well, awesome tool that gives developers free access to hundreds of different useful icons to add to their sites and web apps. It’s becoming a really nice alternative to downloading PSD icon sets, largely because since […]
Most people probably use the shorthand when defining CSS’s border property, which is written as follows:
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div{
border: [border-width] [border-style] [border-color];
}
But what some developers may not know is that the border-width property, the first property defined […]
There are a lot of different variations for CSS3’s background property that are used very often — especially when we’re working with a background that’s an image. Styling a background can result in the accumulation of several different lines of […]
With CSS, it’s easy to turn any a tag into a stylish button. In less than 10 lines of CSS, you can go from this:
to this:
All you need to do is get rid of the default text-decoration (underline), add some […]
