Articles by CSS Tricks from July 2012

A reader wrote in with a really interesting and important question. The answer might save people from harm or literally save lives. I am redesigning a website for domestic abuse victims. The director ...

I used to do an entire talk on pseudo elements. One of the things I mentioned was that there used to be a CSS3 spec that included "multiple" pseudo elements, but it was removed. That was kind of a bum...

How reusable is CSS, really? Should we be doing a better job of that? Or doesn't it matter?A Discussion About CSS Reusability is a post from CSS-Tricks...

Dave and I do a RAPIDFIRE show this week where we try and get through as many listener questions as we can in one show. Thanks very much to Crafting Type (a 5 day workshop on building your own typefac...

I'm speaking at a number of events through the end of the year. Come one, come all!July 19-21, 2012 UXMad, Madison, Wisconsin (Speaking on Friday)August 1, 2012, CSS Summit (online)August 4, 2012, Wor...

I didn't even know there was such a thing as "seamless" iframes. But there is and they are coming (literally an attribute on the iframe element). Essentially they inherit some styles from outside of t...

I recently used this selector as an example in a blog post:.article #comments ul > li > a.button { /* Crazy town */}There was a few comments to the effect that this seemed perfectly reasonabl...

CSS sprites are often used for small icons. That is exactly what looks bad on retina displays. Maykel Loomans has a way to deal with that that doesn't make our CSS twice as complicated: 1) Make sprite...

Dave and I were joined by Dan Cederholm and we talk about retrofitting existing sites responsively, getting back into the game, charging for fonts and lots about Dribbble. Thanks to Harvest and Enviro...

In a recent Q&A article on Smashing Magazine, a question was asked about how to tell if a developer has written bad CSS. Specifically:What are the signs that the CSS is sub-optional, or that the ...

Some quick hits from Alain Meier on some of the cool stuff Sublime Text 2 can do. I've been using and loving Sublime as my primary code editor for a while now. His list of A. through G. are my favorit...

I was interviewed for a brand new Mac-focused Envato blog about my 18 years as a Mac user. If you just can't get enough I was also recently interviewed on 1stwebdesigner.Direct Link to Article —...

In this one I answer questions about HTML email, baseline grids, resets, opacity issues, and more.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Smashing Mag CSS Q&A #2 is a post from CSS-Tricks...

Last week I asked people to participate in some group design thinking around a specific design pattern: email settings. This was the premise:Imagine there are three events that can happen in a web app...

While doing a bit of cross-browser poking around on CodePen, I noticed that the font for the code editors was notably duller and weaker in WebKit browsers (Safari and Chrome) than it was in Firefox or...

There isn't any super simple standardized way to set web type on a circle (or any kind of curve). But it can be done! We'll explore one way to do it here. But be forewarned, we're going to use some CS...

Dave and I were joined by David DeSandro where we talk about working in this industry, JavaScript versus CSS3, accessibility, David's various projects, and more. Thanks to Harvest (use code SHOPTALK f...

Media queries are already awesome. Media queries in Sass are already awesome. Media queries in Sass 3.2 are going to be really awesome. This is how you can get CodeKit to start using it.This isn't a b...

Half a decade. That's how old CSS-Tricks turns today. That means it's time for the annual state of the union as we've done on it's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th birthdays. That reminds me. Obligatory stock a...

As I type, 36 hours left on the Kickstarter project for redesigning this website. Backing the project will get you the least expensive access ever offered to the video library of it all.Direct Link to...

Let's have a little fun tackling a design problem! We've done this once before when tackled solutions for a List with Functions. Let's do it again and tackle an Email Settings area. Imagine there are ...

I'd love to gather some statistical data from ya'll if you have a few seconds. It will help with the big redesign.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Reader Survey is a post from CSS-Tricks...

Dave and I are joined by Rogie King where we talk about illustration software, Dribbble, gettin' good and more. This weeks show was sponsored by the Incontrol Conference coming up in Hawaii. (…S...

My talk of that name being presented at Minnebar in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mmmmm.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Video of “What We Don’t Know” is a post from CSS-Tric...

I do this podcast called ShopTalk Show with Dave Rupert. If you like this blog you'll probably like that show. We bring on guests but it's mostly a listener Q&A show. I've had a few folks ask me ...