CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Isn’t it great? Well, actualy, it is.
Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time - of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-architects, really couldn’t live without. They are essential and they indeed make our life easier. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites.
Thanks to all developers who contributed to accessible and usable css-based design over the last few years. We really appreciate it. Thanks!
1. CSS Based Navigation
2. Navigation Matrix Reloaded
3. CSS Tabs
4. CSS Bar Graphs (CSS For Bar Graphs)
5. Collapsing Tables: An Example
6. Adam’s Radio & Checkbox Customisation Method
7. CSS Image Replacement
8. CSS Shadows (CSS Shadows Roundup)
9. CSS Rounded Corners Roundup (Nifty Corners)
10. Drop Cap - Capital Letters with CSS
11. Define Image Opacity with CSS
12. How to Create a Block Hover Effect for a List of Links
13. Pullquotes with CSS (Automatic Pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS
14. CSS Diagrams
15. CSS Curves
16. Footer Stick allows for the footer of a Web page to appear either at the bottom of the browser window or the bottom of the Web page content – whichever is visually lowest.
17. CSS Image Map
18. CSS Image Pop-Up
19. CSS Image Preloader
20. CSS Image Replacement for Buttons
21. Link Thumbnail
22. CSS Map Pop
23. PHP-based CSS Style Switcher
24. CSS Unordered List Calender (CSS Styled Calender)
25. CSS-Based Forms: Techniques
26. CSS-Based Tables: Techniques
27. Printing Web-Documents and CSS
28. Improved Links-Display for Print-Layouts with CSS
29. CSS-Submit Buttons
30. CSS Teaser Box
31. CSS Tricks for Custom Bullets
32. Ticked Off Links Reloaded
33. CSS Zooming
34. Creating a Star Rater using CSS
35. The ways to style visited Links
36. PDF, ZIP, DOC Links Labeling
37. Displaying Percentages with CSS
38. Image Floats without the Text Wrap
39. Let visitors decide, whether or not will they open link in a new window
40. Simple accessible external links
41. Zebra Table with JavaScript and CSS
42. Vertical Centering with CSS (Horizontal and Vertical Centering with CSS
43. Unobtrusive Sidenotes
44. Image Caption with CSS (Styled Images with Caption)
45. Dynamic Piechart with CSS
46. Format Footnotes with CSS
47. Hierarchical Sitemap with CSS
48. Snook’s Resizable Underlines
49. Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique
50. StyleMap: CSS+HTML Visual Sitemap
51. Custom Reading Width
52. CSS Alert Message
53. CSS Production Notes
