Cascading Style Sheets Reference Links

Oct 102011
 
Cascading Style Sheets Reference Links

University of Minnesota Duluth :: CSS Tutorials: General A CSS Walkthrough – Christian Montoya An Introduction To CSS – Adrian Senior Beginners Guide to CSS and Standards – Emil Stenstrom Cascading Style Sheets Made Easy – Taylor Anderson Cascading Style Sheets: Using Element Display For Layouts, Links and Lists – Miraz Jordan Complete Guide to all of CSS – John Allsopp Converting a Page to CSS – J. David Eisenberg CSS 1 Hands on Tutorial – John Allsopp CSS Accessibility CSS Advanced Guide – Patrick [read more]

CSS Spec Terms, for Future Reference

Oct 072011
 

Sept 28, 2011 Tab Atkins Jr :: I accidentally use some CSS terms interchangeably sometimes. I try to maintain discipline here, but not everyone even knows what the correct terms are, so they can’t make themselves do it right. I’ll add to this list in the future as I come up with more stuff that occasionally confuses me. rule or ruleset: A selector + braces combo, or an at-rule. declaration block: A sequence of declarations. declaration: A property + colon + value combo. property value: [read more]

Position Text Labels on Forms Using CSS

Oct 072011
 
Position Text Labels on Forms Using CSS

By Cameron Adams on 5th Oct 2011 :: In this post, I’ll explain three common approaches to positioning text labels on web forms using CSS: top-​​positioned text labels left-​​aligned text labels right-​​aligned text labels Using Top-​​positioned Text Labels Positioning labels at the top of their form elements is probably the easiest layout to achieve, as we only need to tell the label to take up the entire width of its parent element. As our form elements/​labels are inside ordered list items (which are block elements), each [read more]

CSS Selectors: Should You Optimize Them To Perform Better?

Oct 072011
 
CSS Selectors: Should You Optimize Them To Perform Better?

by Steven Bradley on Monday, October 3rd, 2011 in CSS :: For the last few weeks I’ve been looking at different css selector patterns. One thing I haven’t mention is the efficiency of the selectors, something Chad commented about on the very first post in the series. I had originally intended on adding a link or two about selector efficiency in one of the posts, but completely forgot. Instead I’ll offer this post, along with those links I had originally intended on including. Here are [read more]