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Introduction to CSS: Selectors and Relationships Explained

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CSS Tutorials

This article will provide an introduction to CSS, which also requires an explanation of HTML (even if you know HTML you may want to read through it as it explains the relationship model). This article won’t explain every single CSS attribute, but will explain everything you need to know to fully comprehend the language.

Preloading CSS Hover Images

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Javascript Tutorials

This is a method for pre-loading your images used in CSS. Normally, when you hover over a link, the browser has to download the hover image, which will cause the background color to “flash” for a second and ruin the user experience. This article explains how to fix that problem using javascript.

Tabbed CSS Navigation

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This explains how to build a navigation which looks like “tabs” using CSS. Your tabs will use text and can be of variable lengths.

Image CSS

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CSS Tutorials

CSS Rules for IMG tags, along with information about using images as CSS background-image.

CSS Box Model differences in Firefox and Internet Explorer

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CSS Tutorials

Problem: Here is the bane of web developers existence, Internet Explorer incorrectly displaying the CSS box model. What is the box model? This describes all elements used in HTML documents. Every element is in the shape of a rectangle (and you wonder why developers cringe when circles are a part of layouts?) A box has several [...]

CSS Drop Shadows using text-shadow

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The latest version of CSS allows you to add shadows to your text using the “text-shadow” property. Here’s an example of what the output looks like in your browser: I have a drop shadow of 0px X distance, 2px Y distance, 3px blur value, and a black color. The text-shadow property takes four values, being the color code, [...]

PHP Class for creating CSS Graphs

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PHP Tutorials

We’ve developed a PHP Class for drawing a CSS graph. The CSS and XHTML code for this class was originally developed by Meyerweb, we just took it and wrapped a PHP class around it. This class is also hosted over at phpclasses.org if you prefer to get your stuff on that site, but keep in [...]