CSS-Tricks

Marc Grabanski brought up and interesting idea on Twitter yesterday.

Commas before or after the line on json objects and multi var definitions?

Originally published on July 21, 2008 as only a jQuery technique. Now updated to include CSS3 and a combo technique which is mo’ betta.

A garage door style menu is where an image (the “door”) slides up to reveal something behind it. We’ll do this in two ways, with CSS3, and with jQuery. Then we’ll combine them into a progressive enhancement way to handle it.

Let’s be clear here, just in case someone is finding this from a search engine: there are no parent selectors in CSS, not even in CSS3. It is an interesting topic to talk about though, and some fresh talk has surfaced.

Back in 2008, Shaun Inman suggested the syntax:

a < img { border: none; }

[Corrected the following sentence]: In this example, it would select a tags but only if they contained an img tag. (Aside: this…

Equal height columns have been a need of web designers forever. If all the columns share the same background, equal height is irrelevant because you can set that background on a parent element. But if one or more columns need to have their own background, it becomes very important to the visual integrity of the design.

If a design is NON-fluid width, this task becomes considerably easier. The best technique to use is Dan Cederholm’s Faux Columns where…

Remy Sharp’s cool site for HTML5 demos has a “View Source” button on each of the individual demo pages. Click it, and you see the entire source code for the page you are looking at. It’s not a popup or a new tab, it just shows the source right there on the page. I thought that was cool so I set out to recreate it my own way.