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Improving the CSS 2.1 strict parser for IE 7

Big improvements in terms of CSS2 support afoot in the forthcoming Version Seven of Interenet Explorer. Further details on the IE Blog. [...]

css tests

a big bunch of css tests to peruse. [...]

Architecting CSS

It's not just small sites that we need to consider when composing and structuring the rules in our CSS file. There's a thorough article at Digitia [...]

CSS multiple background images

This funky feature works in Safari and Konqueror: screenshot here. The code looks a bit like this:body {background-image: url(tigerdisc.png), url(sp [...]

Are Cascading Style Sheets addictive?

asks Ingo Chao. [...]

footer at he foot

here's a demo illustrating how to have your footer sit at the bottom of your page, irrespective of the window resolution.It uses just CSS but unfor [...]

tasty css

How to style a restaurant menu with CSS. [...]

CSS image maps

Good tutorial on how to create an image map with CSS by Stu Nichols. [...]

workaround vs hacks

css styling issues rundown by Alessandro. [...]

Universal Child Replacement

Eric Meyer comes up with a solution for child replacement that can work in IE. [...]

Dr. Strangeswitcher

styleswitcher with css only. [...]

Whitespace and generated content

interesting look into the little used CSS2 whitespace [...]

another css drop-down menu

one clean, well-structured menu which would combine the dynamism and code-ease of dropdown menus and do away with their main problems. [...]

Gzipping your CSS

another handy article from fiftyfoureleven.com [...]

Discussing and Applied CSS Management and Optimization

Two useful and informative articles. [...]

css playground

fine selection of css trickery, tips and tricks for manipulating css at CSS Playground. I particularly like the image magnifier. [...]

simple clearing of floats

two r ecent examples showing how to clear floats without using extra structural markup. [...]

andy clarke

discusses attribute selectors. [...]

well-designed css sites

long list by Andy Budd. [...]

font-sizing fixed again

last time it was Raymond Briggs... this time its Richard Rutter. Both idea's are essentially the same with a font-size being declared in the body [...]

Spacing of characters using CSS

Jukka Korpela has produced a document on the implementation of letter spacing using CSS. His conclusion: use margin instead of letter-spacing (for s [...]

css image rollover

preload images for css rollover as described at Nok rev. [...]

molly explains

about three untold CSS mysteries you might not know about: the universal selector, !important keywords and multi-classes. [...]

lists

how to display UL elements as a flat comma-separated list, by Anne van Kesteren. [...]

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