Prefix free: Break free from CSS vendor prefix hell!
Prefix free: Break free from #CSS vendor prefix hell! via @prefixfree
John Cox
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Bear CSS - Helping you build a solid stylesheet foundation based on your markup
Bear CSS is a web design tool that automatically generates a CSS template containing styling rules for all HTML elements, classes, and IDs found in your markup, saving designers time on initial stylesheet setup. Created by two design students in Belfast, the tool combines HTML5, CSS, jQuery, and PHP to parse uploaded markup and produce a ready-to-customize stylesheet foundation.
Formalize CSS - Teach your forms some manners!
Formalize is a CSS and JavaScript framework that standardizes the appearance of HTML form elements across browsers and operating systems, eliminating the inconsistent default styling that varies by platform. The lightweight solution works with multiple JavaScript libraries (jQuery, Dojo, Prototype, etc.) and provides progressive enhancement for HTML5 support in older browsers, requiring only simple stylesheet and script includes to implement. It aims to give designers control over form styling without requiring extensive custom code or abandoning semantic HTML.
HTML5 Grayscale Image Hover | whatanicepost
#HTML5 Grayscale Image Hover via @whatanicepost
CSS3 Click Chart | CSS3 Browser Support and Information
#CSS3 Click Chart | CSS3 Browser Support and Information -
When can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
This is a homepage for a browser compatibility checking tool that lets developers test website features across thousands of real browsers and devices through a BrowserStack partnership. The site allows users to vote on missing features, import analytics data from Google to check feature support among their actual visitors, and customize which browser versions to display based on usage thresholds. It provides scores for current browser versions and includes options to visualize support data relative to usage statistics.
The CSS white-space Property Explained | Impressive Webs
The CSS white-space property controls how browsers handle multiple spaces and line breaks within an element, offering cleaner alternatives to HTML methods like the `<pre>` tag or ` `. The property has five values—normal (default), nowrap (prevents line breaks), pre (preserves all spacing like `<pre>` tags), pre-line (honors explicit line breaks only), and pre-wrap (preserves spacing while allowing natural wrapping)—with nowrap being the most practical for keeping inline content like links together without splitting across lines. A common misconception is that white-space applies to block-level elements or floated boxes themselves; it only affects inline content within the targeted element.
HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly
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CSS Stacked Bar Graphs - Wojo Design
#CSS Stacked Bar Graphs - Wojo Design
Handling CSS Transitions with prepareTransition - Snook.ca
The author presents a jQuery plugin called prepareTransition that solves the problem of transitioning elements that need to use display:none or visibility:hidden—properties that aren't animatable in CSS. The plugin applies a temporary is-transitioning class with display:block !important to keep the element visible during the opacity fade, then removes the class via the transitionEnd event, allowing display:none to take effect after the animation completes. This approach maintains backward compatibility with browsers that don't support CSS transitions while enabling smooth animations in those that do.
Perfection kills » Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes.
This article documents CSS performance profiling experiments on a feature-rich single-page application, identifying which styles and selectors most impact rendering speed. The author discovers that border-radius, transforms, and universal selectors like "button > *" are surprisingly expensive; unused CSS rules account for 200-300ms of wasted selector matching; and removing IE-targeted selectors from the main stylesheet yields significant gains. The piece includes specific measurements (e.g., adding decorative styles increased repaint time 30x on 400 buttons) and provides practical techniques like using browser profilers and parsing timeline data to identify optimization opportunities.
25 "Time-saving" Generators for Designers - HTML
This is a curated list of 25 web-based design generator tools covering loading icons, color schemes, backgrounds, buttons, CSS effects, and other UI elements. Each tool is presented with a brief description of its primary function, ranging from practical utilities like favicon and CSS button generators to creative applications like avatar customization and text-based image creation. The collection is designed to help web designers and developers quickly prototype visual elements without needing advanced software like Photoshop.
CSS3 Patterns Gallery
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Animate.css - a bunch of plug-and-play CSS animations
Animate.css is a ready-to-use CSS animation library that provides pre-built animations for web projects, installed via npm or CDN and applied by adding class names like `animate__animated` and `animate__bounce` to HTML elements. Version 4 introduced breaking changes, most notably prefixing all classes with `animate__`, though a compatibility file is available for migration from older versions. The library uses CSS custom properties for flexible customization of animation duration, delay, and iteration count, and includes utility classes for common timing adjustments and best practices guidance on using animations meaningfully without degrading user experience.
24 ways: Displaying Icons with Fonts and Data- Attributes
Icon fonts offer a scalable, resolution-independent alternative to bitmap images for web icons, with excellent browser support dating back to Internet Explorer 4 and file sizes as small as 12KB. The approach allows easy CSS customization of color and effects, and can be implemented cleanly using either CSS-generated content or HTML5 data attributes combined with pseudo-selectors to keep markup minimal and semantic. However, icon fonts are limited to monochrome or gradient fills, require accompanying text for accessibility, and demand manual font creation for best results, making them most suitable for familiar, simple icons that don't require multi-color designs.
Incredibly Useful CSS Snippets
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Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery
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CSS Text Level 3
This CSS Text specification defines properties for controlling how text is rendered and formatted in web documents, covering case transformations, white space handling, word and line breaking, text alignment and justification, spacing, and indentation across different writing systems and languages. The document emphasizes that correct language tagging enables language-specific typographic behaviors like hyphenation and justification, and provides detailed rules for handling various scripts from left-to-right Latin text to right-to-left Arabic and complex scripts like Thai that lack visible word boundaries. A key principle throughout is that text formatting properties affect only presentation—underlying document content remains unchanged even when text is transformed, wrapped, or justified for visual effect.
Use CSS transitions to link Media Queries and JavaScript – Paul Hayes
This piece proposes using CSS transitions paired with their transitionEnd events to synchronize JavaScript with media query changes, solving the problem that matchMedia listeners lack broad browser support. The author demonstrates how creating a hidden element with a transition that triggers only when a specific media query applies will fire a JavaScript event, allowing callbacks to execute whenever responsive breakpoints are crossed. The technique works in most modern browsers except IE9, and the author provides working code that wraps this approach into a simple `mql()` function mirroring the MediaQueryList API.
Responsive News - Responsive CSS that scales
The piece outlines practical strategies for implementing responsive web design across multiple languages, drawing on the BBC News team's experience building a single codebase that serves 30 languages across all devices. It covers challenges specific to multilingual responsive sites and how to adapt layouts, content, and navigation to work effectively regardless of language or screen size.