Cascading style sheets (CSS), when linked to an HTML document, define the properties of
tag elements in that document. With CSS, Web designers can control the display characteristics
of a site from one central document. (Partial) CSS support was introduced with Internet Explorer
3.01 and Netscape 4.0 and has been steadily improved with successive browsers since then.
See also our layout section.
Using external CSS files to determine the design attributes creates clean HTML code and will create better search engine rankings. With some knowledge of CSS you can change the code without destroying the visual layout. By Mikhail Tuknov. 0102
HTML emails have great appeal and are widely used for all kinds of professional correspondence, but ensuring that your message displays correctly can be a daunting task. Fortunately, we have options. By Christian MacAuley. 1206
CSS rules are always interpreted by Web browsers. These standards give specifics on how browsers should display those rules — but they're not always followed. To design pages with CSS, you need to know the standards, and to understand how browsers' quirks and flaws will affect your Web design results. By Kynn Bartlett. 0912
So far (in the previous article), all the examples have used widths defined in pixels.
This type of layout is known as fixed-width layout, or sometimes "ice layout" due to its rigid nature. This week we look at fixed-width, liquid and elastic layouts. By Andy Budd, Cameron Moll and Simon Collison. 0904
One of the major benefits of CSS is the ability to control page layout without needing to use presentational markup. This week you'll learn how to horizontally center a design on a page, create two and three column float based layouts and more. By Andy Budd, Cameron Moll and Simon Collison. 0828
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used for Web page layouts and aid in separating the document's style from its structure. Used correctly, CSS can be a powerful Web design tool. This extensive reference covers all the properties of the current version. By Lee Underwood. 0616
One of the biggest problems many people have with setting up a Web site is creating the cascading style sheets (CSS). If you don't know how to create a style sheet, or don't do it that often, here's an alternative. By Lee Underwood. 0526
If you're comfortable with HTML and CSS and don't want or need a WYSIWYG program, then NoteTab Pro may be the editor for you. Its many features and clip libraries make it an excellent choice for getting down and dirty in the midst of your code. By Lee Underwood.
Written by the creators of CSS (Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos), this book covers all aspects of CSS, beginning with the basics, such as the anatomy of a rule, linking styles sheets to documents and progressing to more advanced topics. By Lee Underwood. 0127
In the wake of his success with 'How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS,' author Stu Nicholls has created a new method which doesn't require thumbnail images and has a unique two step method of display. The 'mouse hover' stage creates a half size image and the 'mouse click' creates a full size image. 0912
Do you need to quickly get up to speed when building Web sites? Were you recently elected to create a small Web site for your company? Perhaps you work in a small office and just want a presence on the World Wide Web. Whatever your reasons this book offers a simple solution. By Lee Underwood. 0805
The lack of support for minimum width in Internet Explorer has caused many problems for web designers. Until now, the only way to emulate min-width is to use either JavaScript or Internet Explorer expressions (indirect JavaScript), but now there's another solution. By Stu Nicholls. 0725
In this article you will learn how to style an unordered navigation list using CSS, then take it a step further and add a pop-up information box for each link item so that your visitors will get an indication of the content for the page link. By Stu Nicholls. 0708
In the last tutorial you learned how to style a definition list. This week, you'll delve deeper into this process and learn how to add different fluid borders to your boxes using just CSS. By Stu Nicholls. 0523
Color options in CSS include hexadecimal color, hexadecimal shorthand color, RGB color, etc. Using images, you can create beautiful layouts without the constraints of tables. This week, you'll learn how to apply images to backgrounds and elements, and how to use images for a range of visual techniques. By Addison-Wesley Professional. 0516
Many tutorials on the styling of CSS lists for menus use unordered lists, but these can be difficult to understand since extra styling is needed to remove the bullets. This week, you'll learn how to style a Definition List, which is equally suitable for menus, but is a little easier to understand. By Stu Nicholls. 0509
By far the most sought after use of CSS is to emulate the dated html 'frame' layout, whereby the header, navigation and footer stay on screen at all times and the content area will scroll. This week, you'll learn how to all these things with CSS. By Stu Nicholls. 0426
Fed up with Flash and GIF animations? Try out the new alternative - CSS Flick Animation. These animations normally appear as static images on the page but they spring into life when you move your mouse across them. By Stu Nicholls. 0422
Web sites (both personal and professional) often make use of galleries to show off photographs, artwork, etc. This week you'll learn how to create a professional gallery using an unordered list of photographs and a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). By Stu Nicholls. 0412
This week, you will learn how to turn an ordinary definition list into an image map using nothing more than CSS, and what's more, it should work in all modern browsers, including IE 5.5. Each styling step is fully explained so you can see how to implement it for yourself. By Stu Nicholls. 0329
One major use of CSS is the styling of unordered lists used to hold menu links. This week, you'll learn how to remove the unordered list items, replace them with images and using two images per link, have a hover state that is flicker free in Internet Explorer. By Stu Nicholls. 0314
Traditionally, when learning to code web pages, HTML is taught first, followed by CSS, but since both are related, it would make more sense to teach both at the same time. In this book, HTML and CSS are combined, making them faster to learn. Designed with the beginner in mind, this book assumes no prior knowledge of HTML or CSS. By Lee Underwood. 0309
HTML was originally intended to be used to define the content of a document
using tags such as <h1>, <p>, <table>,etc. As browsers evolved,
it became difficult to create web sites where the content was separated from
the presentation layout. To solve the problem, styles were created. This article
is a brief introduction to CSS and how it works. By Taylor Anderson. 0207
Of the many ways to create and edit web pages, TopStyle Pro is a (X)HTML/CSS
editor; a combination which helps to save time in the editing process. If
you like HomeSite, you'll love TopStyle Pro. By Lee Underwood. 0120
Learn how to create complex table-like layouts with CSS. We replicate WebReference.com's front page using only CSS and lots of iterations. By Rogelio Vizcaino Lizaola and Andy King.
Our archived HTML/CSS tutorials will make sure you're up to code. Whether you're a
beginning Web coder, or an advanced developer, Stephanos will give you the foundation you
need to look and perform your best. By Stephanos Piperoglou.
It only takes a dash of CSS to spice up otherwise bland content and
grab your reader's attention. In this tutorial, guest author Christopher
Schmitt provides specific examples for dressing up your page and section
headers.
Making use of the latest coding standards not only makes a Web
developer's job easier, but can also result in smaller pages.
Applying multiple CSS classes to individual elements allows you
to style your HTML with less overall bytes. By Eddie Traversa.
This page introduces the basic concepts of cascading style sheets, and links to examples and resources. In addition there is also a tutorial which shows you the basic mechanisms of style sheets.
Cascading Style Sheets are a clean way to make sure the text on all your pages looks exactly the way you want...almost like XML for designers. Read all about CSS in this lucid explanation full of live examples.
application for Windows 95 / NT 4 and compatible, which allows you to directly create and maintain CSS files, apply those styles, and also to edit style definitions wherever they are.
This authoring tool allows construction of full featured Cascading Style Sheets, with full control of Text Placement, Font Styles, Backgrounds, and more.
Information about which CSS aspects are standard to which browers and which standards aren't standard at all. Also lists other CSS resources. From WebReview.
