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 ...
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 ...
Easier Expanding Menu Code
This article provides you with easier expanding menu code than a previous article did by losing automatic menu unexpand feature and added some easy CSS code to provide nice mouse over effects. More ...
Easy CSS Buttons
In this article, you'll learn how to avoid the need to make graphic menu buttons, yet still produce the same visual effect that graphics provides. You'll learn how to create graphical looking buttons by applying simple style rules. More ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Use @font-face Rule to Load External Fonts For Your Webpage
The CSS font-face rule allows web designers to load fonts from external sources, they no longer have to use one of the web-safe fonts. This article provides example code. More ...
How to Style a Table
The early Web was used to communicate data between Universities and one of the most common structures used for that purpose is a table. Even today, many tables use the default styles, which makes them somewhat boring. In this article, I show you how to use CSS (cascading Style Sheets) to make your tables more interesting. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
