Quick Tip: CSS Box Shadows
In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we’ll learn how to add drop shadows to HTML elements with the CSS box-shadow property. This allows you to change shadow effects on an element with just a few quick CSS...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Full Page Background Images in CSS
In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we’ll learn how to create scalable full-page background images with CSS. This allows you to easily customize the background of your web page with just a single line of CSS....
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Getting Started with CSS – Part 2
In part 1 we covered basic CSS concepts like the cascade and CSS rules. In this article, we’ll take things a step further with the CSS box model and basic selector types. The CSS Box Model...
View ArticleApplying Normalize.css Reset – Quick Tip
In this Quick Tip we’ll learn about Normalize.css, a new CSS tool we can use as an alternative to traditional CSS reset methods. Normalize.css makes browsers render all elements more consistently and...
View ArticleHSLa Color Values in CSS – Quick Tip
In this CSS Quick Tip, we’ll learn how to define color values with the HSLa color model. HSLa stands for Hue, Saturation, Lightness, and alpha. This HSLa Color Values method is much more intuitive than...
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CSS Positioning: A Comprehensive Look
If you’ve come to grips with CSS-based layouts, then it’s likely that you’re using floats as the primary means to layout your pages. Maybe you’ve even started to experiment with some of CSS’s...
View ArticleHow to Choose the Right CSS Preprocessor
You’ve probably already heard of CSS preprocessors by now, but haven’t quite plucked up the courage to try one because of the learning curve, or maybe because “preprocessor” just plain sounds...
View ArticleCSS3 Substring Matching Attribute Selectors
In the CSS3 selectors module, the W3C introduced a new set of attribute selectors called substring matching attribute selectors for specifically targeting elements whose given attribute begins, ends or...
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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks
CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success. While any CSS solution for layout is preferable to nested tables,...
View ArticleIncrease Your Site’s Performance with Hardware-Accelerated CSS
Did you know that we can hardware-accelerate graphics-intensive CSS features by offloading them to the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) for better rendering performance in the browser? Most computers...
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5 Useful CSS Selectors
Besides the usual type, descendant, class and ID selectors, CSS offers several pseudo-class and pseudo-element selectors that allow us to target HTML elements based on their positions in the document...
View ArticleUsing jQuery to Detect When CSS3 Animations and Transitions End
It seems like only a couple of years ago that almost every animation on a web page was done either by means of Flash or a JavaScript library like jQuery. CSS3 has put that to rest. Simple, elegant...
View ArticleThe Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Sass
What is Sass? Sass stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets Sass, and was created by Hampton Catlin. It’s a way to simplify your CSS workflow, making development and maintenance tasks easier. For...
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Create a Themable Button Set with Sass
If you have yet to give Sass a try, don’t worry, this is a good place to start. And if you haven’t already read Andrew’s primer on Sass, give it a read for a better understanding of what we’ll be...
View Article3 Quick Steps to Get Your Site Retina Ready
Not too long ago, as I was browsing the web on my MacBook Pro with Retina display, I came across a typical form on a typical website. The buttons were fairly standard faire — gradients, rounded...
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SVG Path Animation with jQuery and Illustrator
As technology in the web moves forward we are offered new tools to build amazing web applications. Scalable Vector Graphics or SVG’s have been gaining traction in the past year or so as most browsers...
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Take Control of the Box Model with box-sizing
I get asked a lot about the CSS box-sizing property, especially from beginning designers and developers who’ve dealt with broken layouts and misaligned grids. The CSS box model can be a little...
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Create an Absolute Basic Mobile CSS Responsive Navigation Menu
In this tutorial we will go over the process in coding a very basic CSS responsive navigation menu. We will transform a basic non-list style navigation to a drop down menu using media queries in our...
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Adding Motion into Web Design with Animate.css
Lots of frontend web developers have been getting interested in dynamic interfaces using motion effects. This is all too common with many advancements within popular JavaScript libraries. But there has...
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The CSS3 Placeholder Pseudo-element
An HTML5 feature that had the web community abuzz with excitement a couple of years ago was the placeholder attribute for displaying placeholder text in input fields. Now that it’s widely supported by...
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