Articles by CSS Tricks from July 2011

Has anyone every ask you for help troubleshooting some combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and they copy and paste the entirety of all the files into an email or forum post? It's super commo...

Super hot jQuery and Prototype plugin by the Harvest team that seriously improves the UI of <select> elements. Direct Link to Article — PermalinkAdvertise here with BSAChosen is a post f...

localStorage is a new JavaScript API in HTML5 that allows us to save data in key/value pairs in a user's browser. It's a little bit like cookies except:Cookies expire and get cleared a lot, localStora...

Shaun Inman with a Safari extension (and Firefox port) that impliments the (not real) fragment identifiers proposal. Essentially: same-page document links that don't need the ID/hash-tag thing. Altern...

Pseudo elements make the two other sides needed (you can only see three sides of a cube at once). I Love the idea of making shapes without loads of extra divs (obviously) and extra love the idea of ex...

Let's say you have a bunch of images you want to display, and the goal is to get them edge-to-edge on the browser window with no gaps. Just because you think that would be cool. They are of all differ...

Pretty fun, well designed, interesting quiz. You gotta cough up and email and stuff to play any of the quizzes beyond the first one so you might get some random Windows Phone emails or something, but ...

Tim Brown from Typekit shares some pretty classy CSS text shadows and drops some painter's terminology.The Typekit blog exemplifies an idea I've been telling any company I've been involved with for ye...

John Allsopp with a comprehensive article and updated tool for creating them. Funny how the vast majority of radial gradient examples are super in-your-face eye-seizure colors. I think it's because th...

Nobody was born understanding CSS. We all struggled our way through the confusion. Good times, good times. Let's think back on those confusing moments, that are probably confusing people as we speak. ...

Create a menu that, on smaller screens, changes into a dropdown menu. A dropdown takes up much less screen real estate and can be easier to use. This tutorial shows you how and discusses the ups and d...

New project from Mozilla team to tackle the long-standing issue of single-signon (not needing a unique login/pass for every single app in the world). I love it when apps have "Sign in with Twitter", b...

There are rules when it comes to leaving your attribute values unquoted in HTML. Then there are the actual problems that are caused by breaking them. Then there are problems that can happen outside of...

IE 8 (only) thinks that all table cells have a colspan attribute, whether they do or not. So if you are looking to style table cells uniquely that have that attribute, it's a bit tough. Advertise here...

The new poll is up (in the sidebar on the actual site, RSS folks) and it reads:Would you rather host a 200k file on a major CDN or a 20k file self-hosted?This requires a little explanation. Let's...

The <progress> element has landed in the Firefox nighties, one of the new HTML5 forms related elements. Of particular note is that they exposed the ability to style it via pseudo elements righ...

Nearly a third of CSS-Tricks readers work from home! Isn't that crazy? Well I was surprised, anyway. I know working from home is becoming more and more prevalent at companies. I bet a bunch of you...

Two of the CSS properties most lamented by mobile website developers is fixed positioning and scrolling overflow. These are absent for a reason. Poorly implemented, they might single-handedly render a...

I've recently been trying RSS advertising here on CSS-Tricks through BuySellAds. Three or four advertisers have tried it and none have stuck around. Not a total loss from my perspective, but certainly...

CSS sprites are almost always the way to go when it comes to applying background images with CSS efficiently. One hurdle you may come across is when you want to apply an image that's a part of a sprit...

It's CSS-Tricks fourth birthday. Yay! Time for the traditional mid-year mini state of the site.Advertise here with BSAThe Fourth Fourth is a post from CSS-Tricks...