Posted on 01 February 2012. Tags: fonts, lorem, text
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated. Continue Reading
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Posted on 31 January 2012. Tags: background, CSS, multiple
Is it possible to have two background images? For instance, I’d like to have one image repeat across the top (repeat-x), and another repeat across the entire page (repeat), where the one across the entire page is behind the one which repeats across the top.
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Posted on 29 January 2012. Tags: list, lists
Definition and Usage
The list-style-type specifies the type of list-item marker in a list. Continue Reading
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Posted on 26 December 2011. Tags: facebook
Introduction
So you have a great idea for an application, and you’ve developed your idea into a somewhat functional Facebook app. The only problem is, it looks completely out of place in the space Facebook has designated for your layout. Let’s look at how we can change that.
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Posted on 29 November 2011. Tags: CSS, round corner, rounded corners
In the past two years, increased browser support has transformed CSS3 from a fringe activity for Safari geeks to a viable option for enterprise level websites.

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Posted on 28 November 2011. Tags: CSS, Disable, selection, webkit
No one here and posted an answer with all of the correct css variations, so here it is:
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Posted on 17 November 2011. Tags: CSS, print
HTML and CSS, two of our favorite acronyms, are normally associated with web pages. And deservedly so: HTML is the dominant document format on the web andCSS is used to style most HTML pages. But, are they suitable for off-screen use? CanCSS be used for serious print jobs? To find out, we decided to take the ultimate challenge: to produce the next edition of our book directly from HTML and CSS files. In this article we sketch our solution and quote from the style sheet used. Towards the end we describe the book microformat (boom!) we developed in the process.
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Posted on 17 November 2011.
Oh, <textarea>’s. How many quirks you posses. Here is a collection of nine things you might want to do related to textareas. Enjoy.
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Posted on 17 November 2011.
I was recently scoping out the horrid source code of the Google homepage when I noticed the "Google Search" and "I’m Feeling Lucky" buttons had a style definition I hadn’t seen before: -webkit-appearance. The value assigned to the style was "push-button." They are buttons so that makes sense but I was curious as to the possible values available for that style. What I found was that there are a *ton* and that you can set any HTML element to look like a completely different element.
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Posted on 17 November 2011.
Webkit-based web browsers like Safari and Chrome have led web innovation the past few years. Whether its implementing new JavaScript APIs, providing more CSS capabilities than other browsers, or simply providing blazing-fast page rendering, WebKit has been head and shoulders above other browsers in page control and CSS features. One of those subtle features is the ability to control textarea resizing. FireFox will provide this same capability in Firefox 4. Let me show how to control textarea resizing with CSS.
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