Nicolas lists up his principles of writing CSS-code. A very good summery of what should be everybody’s guidelines. This goes deeper then what I wrote about my HTML and CSS Coding Guidelines and it tries to help people collaborating on styles. You should read this awesome piece of work!</p
Please read about the updated syntax of CSS variables in the first and second update of this post. Since a little bit more than a month (as of the time of writing) there is a Editor’s Draft for a CSS Variables Module by Google (Tab Atkins and Luke Macpherson) and Daniel Glazman. Just a few days ago the Working Draft was updated. The first draft was written in 2008 by Daniel Glazman but was not added to the official specification. The new WD extends this proposal by Glazman. Disclaimer: This article is part of a small series about the latest
Since the beginning of February there were some proposals for the CSS3 specification. These proposals are not yet part of the specification and will likely be changed until they get adopted by the CSSWG. One of these drafts is the CSS Hierarchies Module Level 3. So what’s the Hierarchies Module? And why “Level 3″? The Hierarchies Module is not exactly new. It exists since the very first steps of CSS and was first released in Dezember 1996 with CSS1. The CSS1 specification is still up, so check it out if you want to. When you write CSS you always use selectors to target
We're doing a project these days where we use an accordion-menu to show some content. I want to share with you how I did this using jQuery and CSS. This is pretty easy and I want to encourage you not to use any plugin or so but to write the code yourself and learn a bit more about how to use CSS and jQuery and save some microseconds on your loading type. The HTML This is kinda straightforward I think. We don't need a wrapper for the accordion-menu. Check it: <section id="experts" class="accordion-item"> <h1><a href="#experts">Experts</a></h1> <div class="content"></div> </section> This is
The CSS3-spec is full of wonderful things. Sometimes things that are not so desperately needed as others but anyway… good to have them. One of these more or less needed properties might be resize. It is part of the CSS3 Basic User Interface Module. What is really useful with resize is the ability to restrict the resizing of textarea for example. But it is possible to resize every element you’d like to as this demo by Simurai shows. There are four values for resize that are kinda logical: none: no resizing at all horizontal: resizing only horizontal vertical: resizing only…