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The CSS Redundancy Checker

A tool to check your CSS file for declarations that aren''t getting used anymore. Neat idea... needs Ruby, and Hpricot, in order to run it. Article an [...]

Compressing CSS

The Definitive Post on Gzipping your CSS [...]

Styling form controls

Eric Meyer poses a bunch of thought-provoking questions about styling form controls, like what shoulkd happen when you add 10px of padding to a checkb [...]

CSS3 Selectors - is your browser compatible?

Interesting idea - CSS3.info have produced a test to see how forward-thinking your browser is in terms of supporting a bunch of CSS3 selectors. [...]

Reset styles

Eric Meyer presents (with the help of Meyerweb readers) the ultimate set of styles to use as a basis for your CSS. In theory it takes all the differen [...]

Web browser CSS support

What breaks and what isn't supported when it comes to CSS today (via That Standards Guy). [...]

15 CSS Properties You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should)

Great list of CSS properties, most of which I do not use. I like the idea of the clip property. [...]

Top tips for CSS

Christian Montoya runs through the basic declarations he applies to a new style sheet... very useful and interesting. [...]

CSS magnifying glass

Using CSS and the DOM-Drag javascript library Jim has created a fancy zoom feature to pick out the details of these paintings. Includes annotations to [...]

53 CSS Techniques You Couldn't Live Without

Excellent CSS tips resource which I suspect I will dip into now and again. [...]

Styling form controls

Roger Johansson has produced some extensive research and documentation on how your styling can look on a wide range of browsers and operating systems. [...]

Easy cross-browser transparency

This tip for producing CSS-based transparent background colours from Matthew Pennell will definitely come in handy. [...]

Firefox 3 passes Acid 2 Test (eventually)

The latest nightly build of Firefox 3 passes the Acid 2 test. [...]

Readable typography

Richard Rutter shares some very good tips on how to created readable text by manipulating line-heights, font-sizes and margins. [...]

Cairo Corners in Firefox 3

Smooth anti-aliased corners with Firefox 3. [...]

CSS Zen Garden

What an amazing design for the CSS Zen Garden this is. [...]

How we'll lay out websites in 2016

Interesting example using the display-model declaration from Peter Gasston. [...]

Neat hacks for a CSS framework

Karl Dawson explains how he uses a single style sheet call and still manages to negotiate all the various styles required to fix Internet Explorer (an [...]

CSS units

I've been meaning to link to these posts about CSS Units for ages:CSS UnitsHigh DPI Web Sites [...]

Link Thumbnail

The main idea is to create a thumbnail 'tooltip' for external links; which would be very useful if it can be hacked to allow a:focus as well as a:hove [...]

Pure CSS Drop-down menu

... of the horizontal variety. [...]

CSS3.info

This looks like a promising resource for help on implementing new CSS3 stuff: CSS3.info [...]

CSS changes in IE7

A list of the CSS fixes made by the IE7 team. [...]

Content negotiation with CSS

Anne made an interesting post on something called XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0, which (in his example anyway) allows you to use a little bit of XML [...]

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