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 ...
Easy Three-level Expanding Menu Code
In a previous article, I described an easy method to create an expanding menu similar to Windows Explorer, but with only one level of sub-menus. This article provides code for a similar expanding menu, except with two levels of sub-menus. More ...
Add Background Color to a Heading
One way to highlight your webpage heading is to add a background color. This is very simple to do using the background-color property, but since a heading element, is a block element, you need to place a span within the heading tags and apply the background-color property to the span. 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 ...
Setting a Larger First Letter
Long ago printing was much more stylish than it is today. The first letter of the first paragraph was much larger than the rest of the text. If you want to publish fictional content on the Web, you can give your story an extra touch of class. Use the information in this article to set a larger first letter for the first paragraph. More ...
Write Style Rules to Make Them Understandable
If you're going to write quite a voluminous CSS-file, you should follow some general recommendations, which can help to avoid mistakes and to make the code understandable and convenient. For example write all the rules for every selector in the same place. More ...
How to Style a List
Lists are a very common structure found on Web pages. Many lists use the default styles, which makes them somewhat boring. In this article, I show you how to get control of your lists and how to use style rules to make them more interesting. More ...
Spice Up Your Web Forms with Color and Graphics
You've used color and graphics to create a visually exciting Web site. Then you add a web form with the default font and gray and white colors. You don't have to have dull Web forms. In this article I show you a few tricks that you can use to spice up your Web forms. More ...
How to Overlay Text on an Image
At some point you might find the need to put text over an image. The easiest way is to use a graphics editor, but with a graphics editor, if you don't like the exact location where you placed the text, you have to start all over. By doing it with style code, you can move the text around just by retyping a few digits. 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 ...
How to Center a DIV
The current proper way to center a div is to use CSS to set both its margin-left and margin-right properties to auto. More ...
Code to Move the Scrollbar to the Left Side
You can easily move the scrollbar of a block-level html element to the left side by setting its direction property to rtl. However, there are a few other thing you need to do to make it work right. More ...
