CSS to Use an Image as a Mask
Here is an easy way to create nice image text effects. A mask is an image with one color that is transparent, allowing an image behind it to show through, while a different color is used to block the parts of the image behind it. More ...
Make a Fixed-width Variable-height Round Cornered Box
You have undoubtedly seen websites that display text within round cornered boxes, and, since there is no round cornered html element, you wondered how that was done. In this article, you'll learn precisely how to create such a round cornered box. More ...
Flat Design and Ghost Buttons
One of the latest web design trends is flat design, and one of the expressions of this trend is the ghost button. This article provides easy code to create ghost buttons. More ...
How to Use a Starburst on Your Web Page
A starburst is a useful advertising graphic that draws the viewers attention to exclamatory advertising message. It can be entirely graphic, that is, the starbust and the text are all in one graphic image. In this article, I show you how to use a starburst graphic with text that you type in. This has the advantage that you can change the text without editing the graphic. More ...
How to Color Alternating Rows or Columns in a Table
It can be difficult for your eyes to follow a row or column across a large table. In this article, I show you some easy CSS techniques to to add a background color to alternating rows or columns of a table to make it easier to read. More ...
Create a Cool Picture Frame Effect with CSS
By setting the CSS border-color property to a transparent color, and setting the background-origin property to border-box you can create a cool picture frame effect. More ...
Using the HSL Color Specification
The CSS hsla method gives artists familiar with the HSL (hue, saturation, lightness, alpha) color specification a way to design color with CSS. More ...
Display Overlapping Images on Your Webpage
In this article I show you how easy it is to use script to display overlapping images on your webpage where you can just change numbers to play around and arrange the images and overlapping to get it just the way you like it without having to repeatedly use a graphics application. More ...
Create Custom Horizontal Rules
Horizontal rules can increase webpage readability by providing a separation between different topics on a page. Horizontal rules are often used to separate a footer or resource box at the bottom of a webpage from the main webpage content. HTML by itself creates some pretty bland horizontal rules. But with CSS designers have the means to create interesting horizontal rules. More ...
Easy Text Drop Shadows
A text drop shadow is a nice effect, but it used to require you to use a graphics editor to create a image text. CSS3 introduces the text-shadow property which makes it easy to create text drop shadows without using graphics. More ...
Add Style to Your Blockquotes
A basic blockquote is a bit boring, but there are a few style tricks that you can use to spice them up. In this article you learn how to set a border, how to use graphic quote images and a few other style tricks. More ...
Style Your Imagemap Tooltips
Creating popup tooltips is extremely easy if you're satisfied with the style defined by the client operating system. With a bit of style code and a bit of Java Script code you can control the appearance of your tooltips. More ...
