The following is a guest post by Parker Bennett. Parker is a bit of a regular around here, known for tackling common problems with unique solutions. This time he’s back at it creating complex shapes that have image backgrounds, …
If you’re going to learn about CSS specificity, it might as well be with The Shining, right? (Or fish, or Star Wars.)…
Reader Marcin A wrote in with this question about a simple unordered list in which they wanted the elements to be arranged in vertical order (top to bottom) instead of horizontal (left to right). …
The vast majority of websites out there use a grid. They may not explicitly have a grid system in place, but if they have a “main content area” floated to the left a “sidebar” floated to the right, it’s a …
Paul Irish suggests the universal selector (*) to apply border-box box-sizing to every element. I’ve been wanting to try this forever because this box model is, in my opinion, just better. Imagine: elements with percentage widths and pixel padding without …
The box-sizing property can make building CSS layouts easier and a lot more intuitive. It’s such a boon for developers that here at CSS-Tricks we observe International Box-Sizing Awareness Day in February.
But, how is it so helpful and beloved …
Let’s specifically cover this subject. (rimshot!)
The best way to explain it is to start with an example of where specificity gets confusing and perhaps doesn’t behave like you would expect. Then we’ll take a closer look at how to …
Do you know what the difference between these selectors are?
ul li { margin: 0 0 5px 0; }
ul li { margin: 0 0 5px 0; }I’ll admit it took me longer than it probably should have (way …
CSS has the ability to target HTML elements based on any one of their attributes. You probably already know about classes and IDs. Check out this bit of HTML:
<h2 id="title" class="magic" rel="friend"David Walsh</h2This single element has three …
