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 ...
How to Use a Pull Quote
A pull quote is a sentence or two extracted from an article and placed in quotes. The extracted text is used as a "teaser" to entice the reader to continue reading. By using quotation mark and background images along with choice of fonts, font size and color, you have infinite opportunities for creativity in the design of pull quotes. 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 ...
Code for Horizontal Drop-down Menu Bar
One of the most popular website navigation elements used today is the horizontal drop-down menu bar. Using the code provided in this article, you'll be able to create a menu bar that meets your requirements. You'll be able to easily change the number of main menu and sub-menu items, and to style the menu as you desire. 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 ...
Create CSS Button Rollovers
In this article, you'll learn how to create the rollover effect without using Java Script and without preloading images. You'll learn how to combine the up, over, and down images into a composite image, and how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)to specify a position offset into the image in order to display the proper section for each button state. 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 ...
Pro CSS Techniques
One thing this book focuses on that is different than the majority of other CSS book is that is stresses creating semantic markup throughout the design and development process. What this means is that the code is free of presentational information using div and span only when absolutely necessary. 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 ...
Easy CSS Popup Windows
Popups are usually created by using JavaScript to open a new browser window. But with today's Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) capable browsers you don't need to open a new browser window. Instead, you can create popups by applying styles to html span or div elements. 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 ...
