CSS3, (W3C), This document lists all the modules to be contained in the future CSS3 specification. The members of the CSS&FP Working Group have decided to modularize the CSS specification. This modularization will help to clarify the relationships between the different parts of the specification, and reduce the size of the complete document. It will also allow us to build specific tests on a per module basis and will help implementors in deciding which portions of CSS to support. Furthermore, the modular nature of the specification will make it possible for individual modules to be updated as needed, thus allowing for a more flexible and timely evolution of the specification as a whole.
W3C CSS Validation Service; a free service that checks Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in (X)HTML documents or standalone for conformance to W3C recommendations. Note: If you want to validate your CSS style sheet embedded in an (X)HTML document, you should first check that the (X)HTML you use is valid.
47 jaw-dropping CSS3 animation demos. They demonstrate the possibilities of the CSS3 transform and transition property. Some are very useful and can be used as Javascript alternatives. Most of them are simply to look cool. In order to view these effects, you need a webkit browser such as Safari and Chrome. WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60's S60 WebKit development. More Browser Links
W3C Cascading Style Sheets. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. Tutorials, books, mailing lists for users, etc. can be found on the learning CSS page. For background information on style sheets, see the Web style sheets page. Discussions about CSS are carried out on the (archived)
www-style@w3.org mailing list and on news.comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets.
W3C CSS Advanced Layout Module This specification is part of level 3 of CSS ( CSS3 ) and contains features to describe layouts at
a high level, meant for tasks such as the positioning and alignment of widgets
in a graphical user interface or the layout grid for a page or a window, in particular when the desired visual order is different from the order of the
elements in the source document. Other CSS3 modules contain properties to specify fonts, colors, text alignment, list numbering, tables, etc.
(Note: This may not available on all Browsers
at this time)
The CSS Text Wrapper, This
look like an easy and great way to make your site look good.
The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. All you have to do is draw the left and right edges below and then copy the generated code to your website. Get to it!
Not Just Rectangles Anymore.
Some Examples
CSS Grid Positioning Module This module describes integration of grid-based
layout (similar to the grids traditionally used in books and newspapers) with CSS sizing and positioning. (Note: This may not available on all Browsers
at this time)
Yahoo's Grids CSS® YUI Grids CSS. The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths,
six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns. The YUI Grids Builder® a simple interface for Grids customization .
Video: The YUI CSS Foundation
CSS3 A comprehensive CSS 3 reference guide, tutorial, and blog
CSS3.info CSS3 is the new kid in the stylesheet family. It offers exciting new possibilities to create an impact with
your designs, allows you to use more diverse style sheets for a variety of occasions and lots more. Share your experiences of CSS3
CSS3 Gradient Generator. Please be aware that in order to make the most use of this utility you will need either a webkit browser such as Safari or Google Chrome, or the Firefox 3.6 beta. Currently Internet Explorer does not support CSS based gradients. This tool is updated whenever implementation methods are changed. This generator uses the latest implementation of Mozilla gradients
found here. The CSS3 Gradient Generator was created as showcase of the power of CSS based gradients as well as a tool for developers and designers to generate a gradient in CSS. CSS gradients generate an image result, meaning the result of a CSS gradient can be used anywhere an image can be used, be it a background-image, mask, border, or list item bullet.
CSS3Menu Create CSS menu absolutely FREE! Creating a nice looking menu no longer needs all the code and time it use to, thanks to CSS3. Using this FREE CSS3 Menu you can create great looking buttons using just CSS3 in a few clicks. CSS3 is changing how we build websites. Even though many of us are still reluctant to start using CSS3 due to the lack of support in some browsers, there are those out there that are moving forward and doing some amazing stuff with its cool new features. No longer will we have to rely on so much JavaScript and images to create nice looking website elements such as buttons and menu navigations. You can build a cool rounded navigation menu, with no images and no Javascript, and effectively make use of the new CSS3 properties border-radius and animation. This menu works perfectly well with Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. The dropdown also works on non-CSS3 compitable browsers such as IE7+, but the rounded corners and shadow will not be rendered.
50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools and Tutorials
Includes: Useful CSS Techniques and Advice,
HTML5 Readiness An interactive table featuring the support of HTML5 and CSS3
in browsers.
CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 Help Cheat Sheets (PDF) Smashing Magazinea's cheat sheets
that will help you quickly look up the right CSS 2.1-property or an obscure CSS
3 property. The style sheets contain most important properties, explanations and
keywords for each property. The help sheets were created by GoSquared and
released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Which email clients support CSS3? "In this update to our existing
guide to CSS support, we tested both widely implemented and experimental CSS3
properties across 24 popular desktop, web and mobile email clients. The results
were mixed, but certainly surprising! If you're planning to introduce CSS3 to
email campaigns, read on: we've not only got a summary of which email clients
display what properties, but observations and hand-picked recommendations for
the style-savvy email designer. " Also check Guide to CSS support in email
clients. and many more...
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CSS3Warp is a proof of concept: create Illustrator like "warped" text (text following an irregular path) with pure CSS and HTML5, CSS Warp is broght to you by Eleqtriq for more great CSS :-
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Eleqtriq for more great CSS and HTML5, (Example of CSS3Warp above). Tweaking Bytes at 72 dots an inch:-
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:00:47 +0000 - SVG CSS sprites offer some possibilities for webdevelopers that are superior to the "classical" CSS sprites. With SVG it is possible to get access to much needed properties like "background-rotation" or "background-opacity" that currently are missing from the CSS spec. This article shows how SVG can give us additional useful CSS tools for our frontend coding tasks.
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:16:05 +0000 - Finally updated traqball.js, my little js lib for gimbal lock free 3d rotation to version 2.0. Impress friends and family with deceleration, easier configuration and multiple trackballs on a webpage.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:47:49 +0000 - My latest experiment: this little web application will make it easy for you to "warp" HTML-text. Create native text that follows the flow of an arbitrary bezier path or wrap it around a circle like you do in Illustrator.
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:44:50 +0000 - A little showcase, using all the latest CSS-stuff that makes CSS so much fun to work with these days: animations, transitions, transformations, 3D....
I finally found some time to finish the last part in my series on CSS3 3D tutorials. We will learn how to build and style a 3-dimensional packshot with noting more than a few lines of HTML/CSS and then add some Javascript-magic to make it a freely rotatable object. Works even on iPad and iPhone.
Sqetch is a little "sketchy", looking collection of Illustrator-wireframing-templates I created over the last several months. It consists of several templates for browser, iPad, smartphone and a collection of UI-elements.
It brings back some "artistry" to the wireframing-process which makes it ideal for early-stage wireframes.
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:27:57 +0000 - For some time now I had planned to build an online app that makes creating data URI-sprites in CSS less painful. As a special feature I wanted it to be pure HTML/Javascript...
Tue, 18 May 2010 17:06:32 +0000 - The second part in this mini-series on css 3d covers matrix-transformations. What is this mysterious thing and how can we use it?
Tue, 04 May 2010 13:42:03 +0000 - I had a lot of fun last week playing with the new CSS 3D Transforms. This short mini-series is intended to help developers get ready for the next generation of Webkit-browsers.
One drawback of flash is its inability to display cubic bezier curves. This is my technique for drawing highly precise cubic bezieres. It makes use of the fl.motion package and is an alternative to the widely used generic-midpoint-approximation.
Click here to open the Snow Stack live demo. Arrow keys to move,
"Space " to toggle magnify mode. Mouse click on an image to view on Flickr. You need to "right arrow " on the right wall to get more photos
loaded in.
Many thanks to Simon Fraser for his help with performance profiling Snow Stack.
And yes, OS X Leopard with WebKit nightly will also do accelerated 3D transforms now, just like iPhone Safari.
How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages?
Nicole first presented Object Oriented CSS at Web Directions North in
Denver. Since then, the response has been overwhelming. OOCSS allows you
to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds
much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate
in writing beautiful websites.
Two main principles
1.Separate structure and skin
2.Separate container and content
osCSS web
standard compliant open source online shop. The design structure is based on a
template system, easily customisable and build on CSS / XHTML. Its particularity
is to bring code to be validated by the
W3C standard.
XHTML valid 1.0
and 1.1. The templates are built with
CSS, which results in switchable and easily customisable templates.
450+ CSS Layouts. A collection of layout libraries you can add to your own with multi-column static and liquid layouts. Enjoy and let us know which ones you like best!
CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser. It is available as executeable file (available for Windows, Linux and OSX) which can be controlled per command line and as PHP script (both with almost the same functionality).
In opposite to most other CSS parsers, no regular expressions are used and thus CSSTidy has full CSS2 support and a higher reliability.
2011-12-28T13:13:00-08:00 - An effect that seems to be popping up with increased frequency is the spinning image, or more precisely, icons. Move the mouse over an icon, and it spins (rotates) on its axis to draw attention to itself. This is realized using CSS3's transform: rotate(xdeg) property.
2011-12-13T14:19:00-08:00 - This is a vertical list menu that uses CSS3 animation to gradually expand the selected menu item horizontally so to highlight it. It also employs the CSS border trick to create a cross browser slanted left edge. The final result is a sleek vertical list menu that uses nothing but pure HTML markup!
2011-11-15T12:08:00-08:00 - CSS3 animation can be fine tuned and broken up into "frames", thanks to the @keyframes rule. Currently supported in FF5+, Safari, Chome, and possibly IE10, the following uses CSS3 keyframes to create a pull out image that is revealed when the mouse rolls over an image. In IE, it degrades well in both IE8 and IE9.
2011-11-07T08:57:00-08:00 - This menu takes advantage of CSS3 gradient background to produce a menu with a semi opaque rollover effect. Whatever the solid background color of the main UL behind it, the menu item's background peeks through. Peek-a-boo!
2011-10-27T01:55:00-08:00 - This rustic looking horizontal CSS menu utilizes CSS3 gradient backgrounds and box shadows to add progressive visual appeal while still maintaining its minimalist look. The menu uses no CSS floats and hence can be easily left, center, or right aligned.
2011-07-08T17:08:00-08:00 - CSS3 makes it possible to specify an image as an element's border, instead of just a solid color. It takes a single image and then slices and dices it before using the end pieces to make up the border. Very cool!
2011-04-20T17:54:00-08:00 - This menu uses the nifty "CSS Triangles technique" to create a clean horizontal UL menu with a thick arrow border applied to the currently active menu item. It uses no images nor any extranous markup to accomplish the effect,
2011-03-22T22:33:00-08:00 - A look at how to use CSS to produce triangles/ arrows without any image. Using this technique, 4 speech bubble style DIVs can be created using markup only.
2011-01-27T20:31:00-08:00 - CSS3 throws its full weight behind text shadows, which as the name suggests, lets you add shadows to regular text on the page. And with support for multiple shadows simultaneously applied to the same text, CSS text shadows can produce some stunning textual effects without images.
2011-01-09T19:25:00-08:00 - This CSS example uses CSS3's border-radius property that's set to a very large value to create circle menu links.
CSS tutorial - Introduction. .CSS is a formatting language, used to provide more customised web pages and make it easier to make multiple pages use the same style. The acronym stands for Cascading Style Sheets. All current browsers can handle CSS, and it is the best Web page formatting language produced to date. Some very popular browsers do not handle it as well as they should (see the section on browser problems) but largely support is good and developers are tending to use it much more often. From How to create
Cascading Style Sheets Manual from W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
CSS Toolbox includes a number of tools for fast-tracking and enhancing the
development of style sheet code, such as an advanced CSS
Google Font API and the Google Font Directory. The Google Font Directory
provides high-quality web fonts that you can include in your pages using the
Google Font API. The Google Font API helps you add web fonts to any web page.
Applying a font is easy: just add a special stylesheet link to your web page,
then use the font in a CSS
style. To give developers a choice of high-quality fonts when using
the Font API, we have created the
Google
Font Directory. There you can browse our catalog of available fonts, learn
about the font designers who created them, and copy the code required to use
them on your web page. The fonts in the directory are all released under open
source licenses; you can use them on any non-commercial or commercial project.
Visit the Google Font Directory nowMore Font links
Maxdesign Discusses float, lists, selectors and other CSS issues
CSS Tutorial By the end of this tutorial, you should understand the basic concepts of CSS, as well as using common CSS properties to style your HTML code. Whether you are a seasoned webmaster or a novice blogger trying to modify the layout of your blog, you'll for sure find this a useful site for you.
Interesting idea by Felipe G on using a new at-rule, @-vendor-unlock, to tell the browser to use it's experimental implementation of any particular property, rather than using a vendor prefix on that property. Unfortunately at this point, even if you could get all the browsers on board, you'd need to use this and vendor prefixes to get deep support, which makes the problem worse. What we really need is for all browsers to implement auto-updating so eventually "supporting older …
Digging Into WordPress (the book) is now updated to v3.3. Includes new chapters specially on what's new in 3.2 and 3.3, all the rest of the chapters tightened up and refreshed, better internal hyperlinking (in the PDF), and more. It's a free update (PDF) to all previous buyers. New print copies are on order and will be available soon.
Dave, Jonathan Longnecker, Nate Croft and I talk shop. Topics include website building apps, where to start designing, when not to design for modern browsers, and more.
What do you think folks? Is a new language going to come along in the next ten years that deals with layout / style / design and unseat CSS? Or at least give it a run for its money?
You should vote not based on if there will be any attempt at it, which there certainly will be and already has. But instead if you think one of those attempts will actually make it into native support by a browser …
Star ratings are one of those classic UX patterns that everyone has tinkered with at one time or another. I had an idea get the UX part of it done with very little code and no JavaScript.
The markup uses the unicode entity for a star (☆) right in it. If you have a UTF-8 charset that should be no big deal. Alternatively you could use ☆ (Calculator for that kind of thing). You could use as many stars …
Paul Irish suggests the universal selector (*) to apply border-boxbox-sizing to every element. I've been wanting to try this forever because this box model is, in my opinion, just better. Imagine: elements with percentage widths and pixel padding without worry.
...is now a stable release. It's notable because it's the first release with it's own built in developer tools (video overview). It's all HTML/CSS for now (not a Firebug replacement) but they are nicely designed and a great first step for a product that really should be in-house. Also, CSS 3D transforms! After you've upgraded, check out this demo using -moz-element and the just-now-supported 3D transforms.
In this latest poll, I asked people to test their own internet connection speed then vote in the poll based on their result. The speed choices ranged from (what I would consider) blazingly fast, to mediocre, to nearly unusably slow. I would have guessed a bell curve, with most people having mediocre speeds and just a few on the edges of extreme fast/slow. We didn't get that at all.
The results show a pretty even distribution across all the …
css-discuss is primarily intended to be a place for authors to discuss real-world uses of CSS. This doesn't preclude discussions of theory, or nifty cutting-edge tricks that show off the power of CSS, or even talking about (X)HTML, DOM, and so forth. However, it's greatly appreciated if such discussions have some practical payoff, even if it's just teaching other list members a little bit more about how CSS works. While we don't forbid discussions of the future direction of CSS, the World Wide Web Consortium runs a listserv explicitly for that purpose called www-style. It's probably a better place for those kinds of discussions.
www-style@w3.org Mail Archives This is a mailing list is for technical discussion on Web Style Sheets. This is a focused discussion area: all posts to this list must be about style sheets. The list is also the preferred place for discussing
working drafts that are published by W3C's working group on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Style Home, Style
Mail Achieve, Technical Reports, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The css-discuss Wiki is a companion to the CssDiscussList
mailing list. Among other things the wiki serves as a collective long-term memory for the list participants.
Opera Dragonfly Opera's Developer Tools. Debug JavaScript, inspect CSS and the DOM, and view any errors Opera Dragonfly makes developing using Opera easier than ever, both on your computer and mobile phone. Check out our alpha release for a taste of things to come.
Ben Galbraith provides a general introduction to HTML and CSS. Dion
Almaer then shares some examples of CSS and HTML 5 in action and goes on
to demonstrate javascript.
Palm executives including VP, Directors, and Senior Product Managers
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Students have the unique opportunity to attain the technical knowledge
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CSS Eleven is an international group of visual web designers and developers who are committed to helping the W3C's CSS Working Group to better deliver the tools that are needed to design tomorrow's web.
W3 Style Sheets Style sheets represent a major breakthrough for Web page designers, expanding their ability to improve the appearance of their pages. In the scientific environments in which the Web was conceived, people are more concerned with the content of their documents than the presentation. As people from wider walks of life discovered the Web, the limitations of HTML, HTML 5 became a source of continuing frustration and authors were forced to sidestep HTML's stylistic limitations. While the intentions have been good -- to improve the presentation of Web pages -- the techniques for doing so have had unfortunate side effects. These techniques work for some of the people, some of the time, but not for all of the people, all of the time The syntax of style data depends on the style sheet language.
Learn CSS This CSS Tutorial will get you started with CSS in
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CSS Stuff Want to be able to display your columns in any order? To have equal
height columns without having to use faux columns? To align elements vertically across columns in a CSS-based grid? To not have to clutter your source code with
presentational markup?
Position is Everything. In
search of the One True Layout. Pure CSS-based layouts have come a long way but they still have shortcomings that fail to address certain design goals without compromising the true separation of content and presentation.
Guide using CSS suppors in email clients. Designing an HTML email that renders consistently across the major email clients can be very time consuming. Support for even simple CSS varies considerably between clients, and even different versions of the same client. This guide to save you the time and frustration of figuring it out for yourself. With 23 different email clients tested, we cover all the popular applications across desktop, web and mobile email More email information
Rich in Style Useful CSS guide. CSS 1 and CSS 2. Includes an exhaustive bug pages, which detail nearly 1000 bugs, all organized into easy-to-read sections, as well as to its bug table, which provides at-a-glance access to information. Also covers HTML, HTML 5 includes HTML 4
The css-discuss Wiki is a companion to the CssDiscussList
mailing list. Among other things the wiki serves as a collective long-term memory for the list participants.
Printing Web documents and CSS Describes some of the issues concerning the use of CSS
to reformat Web documents for printing (using the media type "print"). We also discuss those aspects that CSS is not able to control or even influence. We assume a good knowledge of CSS and concentrate on practical issues, given the current deficiencies in browsers in implementing print-related CSS. For more basic tutorials and theory. From The css-discuss
The Web IDE Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features: Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, HTML 5, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions.
Easy User CSS. This Opera Extension adds CSS to any website. The name tells everything about extension’s functionality. Before this extension you had to create new file for every site where you wanted to have User CSS. Thanks to my extension you can just click on a button, write the css rules and press “save” – that’s all! You can also use “Live preview” that shows the effect of styling immediately during writing the CSS rules. More Browser links.
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a
wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can
edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, HTML 5, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Alleycode is a fast, sleek and highly productive award winning HTML editor with
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Komodo - HTML & Programmer's Editor. HTML & Programmer's Editor. You can edit your Web pages without an HTML editor. In our opinion this is the best free programmer's editor out there. Komodo is a complete programmer's editor for Perl,PHP,
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Xajax Project Introducting Xajax Ajax-enable your PHP application with a simple toolkit that gets the job done fast. Runs on any PHP 4.3.x/PHP 5.x and Apache/IIS platform. xajax is an open source PHP class library that allows you to easily create powerful, web-based, Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Applications developed with Xajax can asynchronously call server-side PHP functions and update content without reloading the page.
FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the
tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including
a debugger, error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.
XSLT, (Extensible Stylesheet
Language Transformations), which is a language
for transforming XML
documents into other XML documents. XSLT is designed for use as part of XSL, (Extensible
Stylesheet Language),
which is a stylesheet language for XML. In addition to XSLT, XSL includes an XML
vocabulary for specifying formatting. XSL specifies the styling of an XML
document by using XSLT to describe how the document is transformed into another
XML document that uses the formatting vocabulary. XSLT is also designed to be
used independently of XSL. However, XSLT is not intended as a completely
general-purpose XML transformation language. Rather it is designed primarily for
the kinds of transformations that are needed when XSLT is used as part of XSL.
Also view Extensible
Stylesheet Language and XML,
Extensible Markup Language
DOMAssistant. The idea of DOMAssistant is to provide a simpler and more consistent way to
script against the Document Object Model (DOM) in web browsers. The idea is that everything starts with the element(s) in question, selected through id
or CSS selectors, and then perform various methods on it, such as adding or removing classes, events etc.
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SVG CSS sprites offer some possibilities for webdevelopers that are superior to the "classical" CSS sprites. With SVG it is possible to get access to much needed properties like "background-rotation" or "background-opacity" that currently are missing from the CSS spec. This article shows how SVG can give us additional useful CSS tools for our frontend coding tasks.
Finally updated traqball.js, my little js lib for gimbal lock free 3d rotation to version 2.0. Impress friends and family with deceleration, easier configuration and multiple trackballs on a webpage.
My latest experiment: this little web application will make it easy for you to "warp" HTML-text. Create native text that follows the flow of an arbitrary bezier path or wrap it around a circle like you do in Illustrator.
A little showcase, using all the latest CSS-stuff that makes CSS so much fun to work with these days: animations, transitions, transformations, 3D....
For some time now I had planned to build an online app that makes creating data URI-sprites in CSS less painful. As a special feature I wanted it to be pure HTML/Javascript...
The second part in this mini-series on css 3d covers matrix-transformations. What is this mysterious thing and how can we use it?
I had a lot of fun last week playing with the new CSS 3D Transforms. This short mini-series is intended to help developers get ready for the next generation of Webkit-browsers.
