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Really Useful CSS Tips and Tricks for Web Designers and Developers

Wed, Jan 20, 2010

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CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is most important language technique for web designing and development, we mostly prefer in our modern designs where some new techniques also introduce like CSS3 and some third party scripts as well which can help in latest website designs.

Now CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) offering many advanced advantages which helping in table-less and web 2.0 designs, as you know number of websites offering tips and tricks about CSS, but we choose some very useful techniques which you cannot ignore as designer or developer.

How To Create an IE-Only Stylesheet

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Figures & captions

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Create a Beautiful Looking Custom Dialog Box With jQuery and CSS3

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Get a Consistent Base Font Size

Until IE finally supports the resizing of text in pixels, this is the best technique to gain full control over your font sizes. By setting the body font-size to 62.5%, that will set your font size to 10 pixels. That way, 1em is equal to 10 pixels.

Although I typically then set my container font-size to 1.2em, which in turn sets the font-size to 12 pixels. But still, then you know that 1em is equal to 12 pixels.

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Avoid CSS hacks, use future proof method

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Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images

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CSS Sprites

CSS sprites is the technique of combing images to lessen the number of calls that need to be made to the server. Then you just shift the position of the background image to view the correct part of the image. May sound complicated, but it just takes a little math. Note: In both of these examples, I am using the Image Replacement technique discussed above.

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The CSS Overflow Property

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Poll Results: Hyphens, Underscores, or camelCase?

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A pinned-down menu

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The CSS Box Model

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Alternative style sheets

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CSS Ratings Selector

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A confetti menu

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Rational Z-Index Values

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CSS Tabs

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CSS For Bar Graphs

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Even/odd: coloring every other row

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Adam’s Radio & Checkbox Customisation Method

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The ‘:target’ pseudo-class

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5 Techniques to Style Buttons using Images and CSS

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CSS Image Replacement for Buttons

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CSS Unordered List Calender

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Drop shadows (using css)

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CSS-Based Forms: Techniques

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Rounded corners and shadowed boxes

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CSS-Based Tables: Techniques

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Using CSS to Style Radiobuttons and Checkboxes in Safari and Chrome

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Image Floats without the Text Wrap

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Dynamic Piechart with CSS

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Creating rounded corners (the “Deviant art’s” way)

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5 Comments For This Post

  1. Hermitbiker Says:

    …. certainly most useful CSS Tips…. thanks TL !!

  2. Paola Says:

    really helping and informative CSS techniques which will help for make latest trend website designs.

  3. wparena Says:

    awesome collection

  4. aj Says:

    Nice collection and resources.

    Thanks

    enjoy :)

  5. Jason Bourne Says:

    Nice article..I tell my friend to read this and bookmark..

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