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Free Tools: CSS / Stylesheet Tutorials

The following sites offer additional information and inspiration on the topic of Cascading Style Sheets.

  • W3Schools CSS Tutorial — one of the most comprehensive CSS instructional sites on the Web.
  • A List Apart — A Web magazine providing regularly updated tutorials on Web development with a strong focus on Web standards, including structural markup and CSS.
  • Position Is Everything — convenient source of modern markup instructions and observations regarding browser interpretation of CSS — specifically bugs in Internet Explorer.
  • MeyerWeb — Eric Meyer's Web magazine with tutorials, experiments, observations and instructions for CSS.
  • CSS Chapters & Articles — excepted chapters from CSS books published by Peachpit Press
  • CSS Zen Garden — the inspirational demonstration of separating content from appearance. It includes a single HTML file that can be displayed with hundreds of different style sheets.
  • Mezzoblue — Markup-focused Web magazine from the creator of CSS Zen Garden.
  • CSS Filters and Hacks — A consolidated reference of various techniques used to filter rules, properties, and even entire files from particular browsers or versions.
  • The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Cascading Style Sheets Home Page — the source of Web standards, including CSS. Note: the site is not easy to use. The content is more like that of a white paper than of a tutorial. The intended audience appears to be developers of Web browsers rather than Web sites.

 

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The following CSS examples are great - you can edit the code and instantly see the effect:

 

CSS Examples

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CSS Background Examples

Set the background color
Set an image as the background
How to repeat a background image
How to repeat a background image only vertically
How to repeat a background image only horizontally
How to display a background image only one time
How to place the background image
How to position a background image using %
How to position a background image using pixels
A fixed background image (this image will not scroll with the rest of the page)
All the background properties in one declaration

Background properties explained

Text

Set the color of the text
Set the background-color of the text
Specify the space between characters
Specify the space between lines
Align the text
Decorate the text
Indent text
Control the letters in a text
Set the text direction of an element
Increase the white space between words
Disable text wrapping inside an element

Text properties explained

Font

Set the font of a text
Set a paragraph font using the "caption" value
Set the size of the font
Set the style of the font
Set the size of the font using font-size-adjust
Set the variant of the font
Set the boldness of the font
All the font properties in one declaration

Font properties explained

Border

All the border properties in one declaration
Set different borders on each side
All the top border properties in one declaration
All the bottom border properties in one declaration
All the left border properties in one declaration
All the right border properties in one declaration
Set the style of the four borders
Set the style of the top border
Set the style of the bottom border
Set the style of the left border
Set the style of the right border
All the width border properties in one declaration
Set the width of the top border
Set the width of the bottom border
Set the width of the left border
Set the width of the right border
Set the color of the four borders
Set the color of the top border
Set the color of the bottom border
Set the color of the left border
Set the color of the right border

Border properties explained

Outline

Draw a line around an element (outline) (Does not work in IE)
Set the style of an outline (Does not work in IE)
Set the color of an outline (Does not work in IE)
Set the width of an outline (Does not work in IE)

Outline properties explained

Margin

All the margin properties in one declaration
Set the top margin of a text using a cm value
Set the top margin of a text using a percent value
Set the bottom margin of a text using a cm value
Set the bottom margin of a text using a percent value
Set the left margin of a text using a cm value
Set the left margin of a text using a percent value
Set the right margin of a text using a cm value
Set the right margin of a text using a percent value

Margin properties explained

Padding

Set the left padding of a tablecell
Set the right padding of a tablecell
Set the top padding of a tablecell
Set the bottom padding of a tablecell
All the padding properties in one declaration

Padding properties explained

List

The different list-item markers in unordered lists
The different list-item markers in ordered lists
All the list style types
Set an image as the list-item marker
Place the list-item marker
All list properties in one declaration

List properties explained

Table

Set the layout of a table
Show empty cells in a table
Collapse a table border
Set the space between table borders
Set the position of the table caption

Table properties explained

Dimension

Set the height of an image using a pixel value
Set the height of an image using percent
Set the width of an element using a pixel value
Set the width of an element using percent
Set the maximum height of an element
Set the maximum width of an element using a pixel value
Set the maximum width of an element using percent
Set the minimum height of an element
Set the minimum width of an element using a pixel value
Set the minimum width of an element using percent
Specify the space between lines using a percent value
Specify the space between lines using a pixel value
Specify the space between lines using a number value

Dimension properties explained

Classification

How to display an element as an inline element
How to display an element as a block element
A simple use of the float property
An image with border and margins that floats to the right in a paragraph
An image with a caption that floats to the right
Let the first letter of a paragraph float to the left
Creating a horizontal menu
Creating a homepage without tables
Position an element relative to its normal position
Position an element with an absolute value
Position an element relative to the browser window
How to make an element invisible
How to make a table element collapse
Change the cursor
Clear the sides of an element

Classification properties explained

Positioning

Position an element relative to its normal position
Position an element with an absolute value
Set the shape of an element
How to show overflow in an element using scroll
How to hide overflow in an element
How to show set the browser to automatically handle overflow
Vertical alignment of an image
Place an element "behind" another element
Place an element "behind" another element 2
Set the top edge of an image using a pixel value
Set the top edge of an image using a percent value
Set the bottom edge of an image using a pixel value
Set the bottom edge of an image using a percent value
Set the left edge of an image using a pixel value
Set the left edge of an image using a percent value
Set the right edge of an image using a pixel value
Set the right edge of an image using a percent value

Positioning properties explained

Generated Content

Changes the quotation marks on a page

Pseudo-classes

Add different colors to a hyperlink
Add other styles to hyperlinks
Hyperlink: use of :focus (does not work in IE)
:first-child - change first child <p>
:first-child - change the first <i> in all <p> elements
:first-child - change all <i> elements in first child <p>
:lang (does not work in IE)

Pseudo-classes explained

Pseudo-elements

Make the first letter special in a text
Make the first line special in a text
Make the first letter and first line special
Use :before to insert some content before an element (Does not work in IE)
Use :after to insert some content after an element (Does not work in IE)

Pseudo-elements explained

 

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