Latest CSS Tutorials and How-To's

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Styling First-Letters with CSS ::first-letter

Styling first letter in a block of text is a good way of increasing user attention span. It can be done with the ::first-letter CSS pseudo-element.
March 2, 2019
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Creating Attractive First Lines with CSS ::first-line

When your copy content goes long, it is a good idea to make it visually attractive. The CSS pseudo-element ::first-line can be used to style the first line appearing within an element.
February 27, 2019
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Selecting Sibling Elements with CSS

CSS provides the adjacent sibling combinator (+ character) and general sibling combinator (~ character), to select siblings of an element.
February 25, 2019
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Selecting Child Elements with CSS

The child combinator represented by the greater-than character (>) select direct children of the parent element. The descendant combinator represented by a single-space character can be used to select children, grand-children, grand-grand-children also.
February 23, 2019
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CSS :focus-within

The :focus-within CSS pseudo-class is a selector for an element that contains a focused element as a child. It is the only CSS selector that reaches a parent from a child.
February 19, 2019
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Crop Images in CSS with object-fit and object-position

Images can be cropped in CSS using the object-fit and object-position properties. These properties can even preserve the aspect ratio by scaling the image either up or down.
February 5, 2019
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Using WebP Images with Fallback

If your application involves showing a lot of images then probably it makes sense to add WebP support. Using the HTML tag is the most robust solution to display WebP images with fallback.
January 13, 2019
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Detect when an Element Gets Fixed in CSS position:sticky using Intersection Observer

Creating an element which would become fixed during scrolling has become very easy with CSS position : sticky. And with the new Intersection Observer API, it can be detected when an element comes in/out of sticky position.
January 1, 2019
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How to Create an On Scroll Fixed Navigation Bar with CSS

With the introduction of sticky positioned elements, creating a navigation bar which becomes fixed on scrolling has become very easy. There is no Javascript required.
December 30, 2018
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How to Create a Parallax Scrolling Effect with CSS

Parallax effect is one of the simplest ways to give an elegant look to your webpage. This effect can be achieved with the background-attachment CSS property.
December 10, 2018
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How to Create Typewriter Animation with CSS

This tutorial discusses the concepts behind achieving typewriter effect with CSS, with no Javascript involved.
July 2, 2018
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Some Less Known CSS Properties for Form Input Fields

This post briefly discusses some less popular CSS properties for form inputs, for example tab-index, caret-color etc. You can use them to make your form even more effective.
June 15, 2018
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Typing and Deleting Effect with Javascript

Typing effect is a good way to grab user attention. To implement typing effect, you can start by showing the first character initially; after a few milliseconds you can show the first 2 characters; and so on till the whole sentence has been shown.
June 5, 2018
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Creating a Full Height Page with Fixed Sidebar and Scrollable Content Area

Webpages with a fixed sidebar and a scrollable content area are quite popular. The page expands to 100% height of the screen. Depending upon the height, both the sidebar and content may have scrollbars.
February 11, 2018
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Creating a Page with Sidebar and Main Content Area using HTML & CSS

Popularly used in admin pages, a page with a left sidebar to hold menu options, and a section to hold the main content is one simple design that looks good.
November 1, 2017
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How to Handle CSS in Browser Full-Screen Mode

When an element goes to full-screen , you can change the user interface by changing CSS properties. Tutorial handles all the cases that can possibly come.
October 10, 2017
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Auto Grow a Textarea with Javascript

Using the scrollHeight property you can make your textarea auto grow vertically based on its content.
April 9, 2017
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Understanding clientHeight, offsetHeight & scrollHeight

offsetHeight = VISIBLE content & padding + border + scrollbar ● clientHeight = VISIBLE content & padding ● scrollHeight = ENTIRE content & padding (visible or hidden)
April 9, 2017
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How to Add CSS Rules to a Stylesheet with Javascript

You can use insertRule to add new CSS rules to a stylesheet using Javascript.
February 19, 2017
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Animating a Lightbox with CSS & Javascript

Lightboxes are one of the common things implemented in websites, so animating them is a good idea to impress your visitors.
February 13, 2017