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08:16 pm GMT - Thu, December 29, 2011
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Public Service Announcement: Watch Your @font-face font-weight
Many (especially decorative) web fonts come only in a few selected weights and styles. It's smart to load as few as possible since they can be quite heavy, but also make sure you only use them in the ...
09:42 pm GMT - Wed, December 28, 2011
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Get Value of CSS Rotation through JavaScript
In which we get the rotate value in degrees from a CSS rotation transform.Get Value of CSS Rotation through JavaScript is a post from CSS-Tricks...
08:20 pm GMT - Mon, December 26, 2011
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Thank You (2011 Edition)
Hey folks! It's that time of year again where I write a post to say thanks to every person visiting this site. CSS-Tricks is part of my career, so just by virtue of you visiting this site directly hel...
06:46 am GMT - Fri, December 23, 2011
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Custom Events are Pretty Cool
Callbacks are one way to keep JavaScript functionalities cleanly separated, but they aren't always enough. Using custom events are easier, more flexible, cleaner, and can make more obvious readable co...
12:36 am GMT - Thu, December 22, 2011
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Stuff you can do with the Checkbox Hack
Using a hidden checkbox, you can re-create a lot of functionality on website that rely on clicks and toggled states. Fair warning, it's not always super semantic or a good idea, but it's awful fun to ...
09:33 pm GMT - Tue, December 20, 2011
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Adobe-like Arrow Headers
There are some pretty cool module headers on Adobe's site. In this tutorial we'll recreate them in a more efficient way.Adobe-like Arrow Headers is a post from CSS-Tricks...
06:40 am GMT - Mon, December 19, 2011
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Multiple Attribute Values
By space separating the value of the class attribute we get "multiple classes" we can select by. But what if we want to be able to do that with other attributes?Multiple Attribute Values is a post fro...
08:18 am GMT - Fri, December 16, 2011
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Dabblet
The best part about Lea Verou's new in-browser HTML/CSS demo tool? It saves your demos to your GitHub account as gists.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Dabblet is a post from CSS-Tricks...
09:51 pm GMT - Thu, December 15, 2011
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Auto Updating IE
Big news from Microsoft:With automatic updates enabled through Windows Update, customers can receive IE9 and future versions of Internet Explorer seamlesslyWindows XP gets IE 8 Windows Vista and 7 get...
10:46 am GMT - Thu, December 15, 2011
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Open a Window with Full Size Unscaled Image
For the gallery section of this site, I wanted people to have the ability to see the screenshot at it's original size. Due to the fluid nature of this site, it's fairly common for the screenshot to be...
04:54 am GMT - Wed, December 14, 2011
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New Poll: Your Internet Connection Speed
I think it would be interesting to get an idea of what the internet connection speeds are like for CSS-Tricks readers. Connection speed makes such a huge difference in the web browsing experience I ho...
09:46 pm GMT - Tue, December 13, 2011
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TextMate 2
The long awaited has arrived (in alpha).Direct Link to Article — Permalink…TextMate 2 is a post from CSS-Tricks...
01:14 pm GMT - Fri, December 9, 2011
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This Sites Domain is Now Safe
css-tricks.com is now back under my ownership. Yay! Quick review of what happenedA criminal stole the ownership of css-tricks.com. They transferred it from GoDaddy to PlanetDomain. I got it back. You ...
09:28 pm GMT - Thu, December 8, 2011
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Poll Results: Ideal Page Size
Over 14,000 people responded to this poll in which I asked "What do you think is reasonable page size to try and stay under for a modern web design?"Here's my simple attempt to make the results visua...
09:10 pm GMT - Wed, December 7, 2011
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HTML Forms in HTML Emails
You know how you can send HTML email?You know how things like text areas and radio buttons are HTML elements?Yep.I got thinking about this after getting this email from Google:HTML form right in an HT...
09:19 pm GMT - Tue, December 6, 2011
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Public Service Announcement: Careful With Your Nested Border-Radii
When you have and element within another padded element, both with different backgrounds and both with border-radius, make sure the inside element's border-radius is a bit less than the outer element....
06:22 am GMT - Tue, December 6, 2011
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Knyle Style Sheets
Project from Kyle Neath that builds a very human-readable "living styleguide" automatically from your CSS comments.Direct Link to Article — PermalinkKnyle Style Sheets is a post from CSS-Tricks...
11:22 pm GMT - Mon, December 5, 2011
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Numbering In Style
Chances are if you want to number things in order on a website, the ordered list (<ol>) is your guy. It also is pretty reasonable that you want to style those numbers. Strangely enough, stylin...
09:07 pm GMT - Fri, December 2, 2011
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This Sites Domain is Stolen
Hey ya'll. This is (really) Chris Coyier. I had css-tricks.com registered on GoDaddy. It recently came to my attention that the ownership of this domain has been transferred away from my ownership to ...
02:10 am GMT - Fri, December 2, 2011
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Native Developer Tools for Firefox
They are now in Firefox Aurora (pre-Beta). Also see video.The official statement is to "Provide an alternative for most developers but leave Firebug power-users on Firebug."Reading between the lines a...
10:47 pm GMT - Thu, December 1, 2011
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Relevant Dropdowns: Polyfill for Datalist
The list attribute / datalist element of HTML5 forms is pretty cool. As you type in a text input, it shows you a dropdown menu of choices you can pick from. Or you can type in whatever you want. The l...
07:23 am GMT - Thu, December 1, 2011
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24 Ways: Unicode Range
24 ways, the annual all-thing-front-end-web advent calendar, kicks off this year with some very clever CSS trickery by the publications founder Drew McLellan.Direct Link to Article — Permalink24...
01:06 am GMT - Thu, December 1, 2011
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Move the Web Forward
Wear a beanie today, build the web tomorrow.Direct Link to Article — PermalinkMove the Web Forward is a post from CSS-Tricks...
11:27 pm GMT - Wed, November 30, 2011
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The Script Tag
I got a great question from reader Josh Kreis:I've noticed that on a <script> tag, there are all kinds of variations that all seem to work cross-browser. What is necessary and what isn't? ...