CSS3 has introduced many really neat features to the playing field, many of which were once (and still are) handled by image editors or JavaScript. And after toying with much of what CSS is now capable of, I have to say, the lines are getting fairly blurred. It’s almost like “coding” an image editor, if […]
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CSS Coding Tips, Tutorials & Techniques
The CSS section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of coding websites with cascading style sheets. Discussion relates to the effects CSS has on HTML documents as well as how it can integrate with JavaScript. Additional topics include syntax, selectors, values and units, the box model, layout and features.
Layout Methods Using CSS
If something is all the rage these days, it’s got to be website layout. I suppose layout has always been popular, but with Google’s recent “Mobile Friendly Update,” the topic of layout has increased in importance exponentially. I wish I had ridden that wave, because there was, and still is, tons of work to be […]
Understanding the CSS Box Model
In CSS, the box model is where we start to have fun. It’s the basis of page layout, so it sort of constitutes the building blocks of what our pages will look like. The box model isn’t difficult to understand either, once we grasp a few key concepts. In the most basic sense, the box […]
CSS Values & Units
If there’s one area of CSS that confuses me, it’s got to do with values and units. Especially since the onset of responsive web design (mobile), varying screen resolution, the plethora of screen sizes, etc… What once was a pixel displaying on a desktop has taken on new life. There are considerations today that we […]
Learning CSS Selector Basics
In order to get into CSS a bit more deeply, I think we need to define what it is that we see behind the scenes. What those chunks of code are that we peek at when spying on someone else’s stylesheet. In order to do that, we need to get into what’s called, “CSS syntax.” […]
Adding CSS and JavaScript to Your WordPress Theme
One of the very first areas that needs attention when creating a theme inside WordPress is to add, or include, your style sheets and JavaScript files inside of your template files. Without those, your theme development is going to be quite difficult. In this post, I’ll cover exactly how to go about attaching those types […]
Getting a Handle on CSS
In this post, I’m going to be taking notes on Guil Hernandez’s “Basic CSS” course over at Treehouse. I already took the course a few months ago, but that was before I started this blog. I’d like to take it again for a few reasons. First, without writing about the course, I have nothing the […]
Starting With CSS Basics
What is CSS? CSS is an acronym. It stands for Cascading Style Sheets. I know that doesn’t do that much for you so I figure I’ll give you a more useful definition. Very simply speaking, CSS can be thought of as the style side of a web page. It’s the language designers and developers use […]