A List Apart writes about the current solutions for controlling type in CSS:
“In this article, we will reconcile the designer’s requirement for accuracy with the user’s need to resize text on demand, arriving at a best practice that satisfies designers and users and works across browsers and platforms.”
Veerle updates her styling tables tutorial:
“In 2005 I wrote an article about styling a table with CSS. After receiving so many requests I finally decided to give in and write another tutorial. Seems like a popular topic and an interesting one to share some tricks on how you can nicely style them. This article is [...]
Tripoli is the result of years of coding real-world CSS projects. When dealing with multiple projects, you find yourself repeating CSS rules again and again. Tripoli adds the CSS base you need to skip the typographic basics and get on with design customization while relying on a solid, cross-browser backend.
Dealing with CSS layouts can be [...]
XRAY is a free cross browser tool that lets you see the box model in action for any element, letting you see beneath the skin of any web page.
Just click the XRAY button to instantly answer those vital questions: where is the top and left of this element? how big is each margin? how big [...]
I’m sure just about every web developer is familiar with client-side stylesheet caching. You know how it goes, you’re making changes to a stylesheet and checking them in your browser and then, all of a sudden, the updates you made don’t show up. When this happens, you either click refresh like a spastic monkey or [...]
New version of the Blueprint CSS Framework has been released.
Changelog so for this release:
Added stylesheet for IE. Applies all IE-specific fixes through conditional comments.
All font sizes and line-heights are now elastic, through em units.
Incremental leading for paragraphs (4:5 line height between main/sub column), by Mark Boulton.
.amp is now .alt, since it works great on other [...]
Syncotype is a simple tool to help align your text to a baseline grid. Enter your line height and offset in pixels in the Syncotype control box and click “Syncotype it” to overlay a baseline grid in red. You can also install Syncotype as a bookmarklet and summon it on any page [...]
Another good guide on mastering the tricky tabbed navigation with CSS.
Note: This tutorial has been revisioned. The tabs will now grow vertically as well as horizontally, and the tutorial now also tells you how to get a hover effect.
Steffen Rusitschka writes:
If you ever wanted to display a list of items horizontally with a wrap around once the right margin of your page has been reached, you came across a float:left solution. And if you ever tried to line up items with different heights this way, you know how messy things can get.”
This tutorial will teach you how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS. Dynamic buttons save you heaps of time otherwise spent creating graphics and will basically make you a happier person at the end of the day.
