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 ...
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 ...
The CSS Box Model
One of the most important CSS webpage layout concepts to understand is the box model. Every element on a webpage is actually a rectangular box. Exactly how a box will display depends upon the positioning method used, which other CSS properties you set for the box and how you select the box. 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 ...
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 ...
Create Animated Glowing Text
CSS3 added many new features, one of them was the ability to create animations entirely in CSS, without JavaScript. CSS3 animations are fun and easy to create. More ...
Create a No Image Rollover Button or Badge
In this article, I show you how to create a nice looking button or badge with a rollover effect that requires no image because it uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). I think you'll find that this is amazingly simple to do. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Easy CSS Tabbed Navigation
Tabbed navigation depicts file folder tabs as a metaphor to navigate a website. In this article I'll provide the code for tabbed navigation based on a list that uses only CSS, and one that uses CSS combined with graphic images. More ...
Using Google Fonts
In the past web designers were restricted to a small group of fonts referred to as web-safe fonts. But now, you can easily link to hundreds, if not a thousand beautiful fonts hosted by Google Fonts. More ...
