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Understanding CSS Positioning Part 2

This is the second part in the Understanding CSS positioning series, which will focus on float and more advanced display properties. Float is one of the most often used CSS property in current day stylesheets, and this article will show that there are quite some more display properties than just block and inline.

CSS Qualified Selectors

Shaun Inman is considering writing a proposal for CSS Qualified Selectors to be submitted to the CSS Working Group, but wanted to open the idea up for discussion before he did.

Understanding CSS Positioning Part 1

Without a doubt, positioning, or the layout, is the hardest part of CSS. Not only because it ever so often varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position an element, all with various (dis) advantages. This series of articles will thrive to explain the possibilities you have in positioning. It doesn’t only cover positioning, but also properties that define layout such as display and float, and a preview of the new CSS3 layout modules.

Introducing CSS Gradients

WebKit now supports gradients specified in CSS. There are two types of gradients: linear gradients and radial gradients. So what exactly is a gradient in CSS? It is an image, usable anywhere that image URLs were used before. Including in background-image, border-image, list-style-image and content property.

Extensible CSS Interface IV: Testing for Extensibility

This is the fourth and final article in the four-part series, The Highly Extensible CSS Interface by Cameron Moll.

Harnessing CSS Positioning: Part 1

This article walks through a couple of useful ways to really harness the power of CSS’s “position” property in real-world scenarios. This is part one of a two-part series.

Maximum number of supported classes per element?

I recently worked on a website where I used 4 classes on each of a number of elements. Interested to know what the maximum was, I consulted the specifications. They didn’t name a specific maximum, and just left it at “multiple”. A google search on browser-specific maximums gave no results either. So I decided to go test it myself.

Extensible CSS Interface III: Adding Ajax Interactivity

The third part of Cameron Moll’s four-part series titled “The Highly Extensible CSS Interface”.

This third article documents the underlying components of Ajax, examines a few examples of Ajax in the demo, and wraps up with a shout-out to resolution dependence.