Articles by CSS Tricks from February 2012

Help yourself be better at accessibility by using better hiding techniques that don't use display: none;. This involves some tricks like using more clever class names, being fancier with how you deal ...

Brad Frost shows examples and covers the various techniques/pros/cons for handling navigation on small screens.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Responsive Navigation Patterns is a post f...

The main site sponsor around here, Treehouse, is hiring new teachers for creating new learning videos. It's not a job for just anybody. You need to know your stuff (PHP & WordPress, Front-End Des...

This tutorial, a guest post by young developer Allen Lawson, will show you how to create a notebook themed website using only CSS. How To Create a Notebook Design with CSS is a post from CSS-Tricks...

I know it's weird to go through slides of a presentation outside of the context of a real talk (and pales in comparison to the experience of being there) but nonetheless, there may be bits of goodness...

Sarah Parmenter with some good honest thoughts about the popular idea of designing in the browser. Ive tried, goodness knows Ive tried, but my designs end up suffering, looking boxy, bland and uninspi...

This week Dave and I were joined by Zoey Gillenwater and we chat about print stylesheets, CSS formatting, icon fonts, spec mysteries, and much more.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…ShopT...

I'll be representin' Wufoo at a bunch of BarCamps again this year. Super fun. We need to figure out exactly what (U.S.) cities we are going to go to this year, so if you are organizing one, hit us up ...

What CSS properties might it make sense to apply to every single element on the page? We'll take a look at some that may (or may not) be a good idea.Things It Might Be Fun/Useful to Try the Universal ...

Jeffrey Way, Dave and I talk shop about some newly released projects, -webkit-gate, and our weekly staple of Q&A.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…ShopTalk Episode 5 is a post from C...

Quick overview of the hot drama regarding vendor prefixes.TL;DR on Vendor Prefix Drama is a post from CSS-Tricks...

I've been using SASS for pretty much everything I do recently. Here's some musings on the journey. From hold-ups, to trip-ups, to turn-offs. From apps and teams to workflows and syntax.You Gotta Work ...

Interesting question:css3 speech bubble question: for the "triangle"'s border color, how can I set it to whatever its parent div's bgcolor is automagically?— Jin Yang (@jzy) February 1, 2012By "...

Interesting idea by Felipe G on using a new at-rule, @-vendor-unlock, to tell the browser to use it's experimental implementation of any particular property, rather than using a vendor prefix on that ...

Digging Into WordPress (the book) is now updated to v3.3. Includes new chapters specially on what's new in 3.2 and 3.3, all the rest of the chapters tightened up and refreshed, better internal hyperli...

Dave, Jonathan Longnecker, Nate Croft and I talk shop. Topics include website building apps, where to start designing, when not to design for modern browsers, and more. Sponsored by LessAccounting. Di...

What do you think folks? Is a new language going to come along in the next ten years that deals with layout / style / design and unseat CSS? Or at least give it a run for its money?You should vote not...

Star ratings are one of those classic UX patterns that everyone has tinkered with at one time or another. I had an idea get the UX part of it done with very little code and no JavaScript.The markup us...

A very serious not at all tongue-in-cheek gallery of CSS3 techniques that poo-poos the fancy in favor of the practical.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Real-World CSS is a post from CSS-...

Paul Irish suggests universal selector to apply border-box box-sizing to every element. I've been wanting to try this forever as this box model is, in my opinion, just better. Imagine elements with pe...

...is now a stable release. It's notable because it's the first release with it's own built in developer tools (video overview). It's all HTML/CSS for now (not a Firebug replacement) but they are nice...

In this latest poll, I asked people to test their own internet connection speed then vote in the poll based on their result. The speed choices ranged from (what I would consider) blazingly fast, to me...

If your web app doesn't look or work as well as Bootstrap does out of the box, it's time to have a pretty serious discussion with your team about why.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Twi...

To figure out your grid width percentages for a fluid design, you start with a fixed design and divide the column widths by the container width. Elliot Jay Stocks calls for us to stop the self-torture...