Introduction To CSS Basics
A collection of 21 FAQs/tutorials tips on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) basic. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on CSS syntax basics, contextual, class, and id selectors, CSS cascading order rules, grouping CSS definitions, browswer default CSS definitions.

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CSS Intro
Have you heard about the CSS technology which is revolutionizing web design? Learn the basic CSS concepts to explore a fast and easy way to make your site attractive to customers. CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheet. A style sheet is made up of rules that tell a browser how to present a document to the user. Some older browsers don't understand CSS very well, but most of the newer browsers handle CSS increasingly well. In this tutorial i will attempt to explain a few CSS concepts to you, please read on.

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CSS Button Tutorial
I'm going to show you what we can do with buttons. I am assuming you know CSS. Also, for this tutorial, use Notepad which, with a little manipulation, is the most powerful text-editor around. Check out it's custom scripting language later on. But for now, let's make a basic button. By the way, you will notice my HTML is a little different from most others. That's because it's XHTML. You can look that up later.

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Pure CSS Basic
We are going to teach you some real basic about CSS.

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Useful CSS Code
This is basic CSS tutorial that will teach you how to use CSS code for CSS coding.

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CSS and Text
In this tutorial you'll learn how to have complete control over your text. Before having the control that CSS gives you over text, you were severely limited in how you could present your words.

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Advanced CSS (linking to an external style sheet)
The advanced way, and the easiest way to do CSS is to link to an external style sheet. Here I will sow you how. If you are new to CSS, I reccommend reading the basic CSS tutorial first, if you haven't already. First, open up notepad and put all your styles in.

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How To Style Heading Tags
Now when it comes to heading tags CSS is very important. They can be styled in many ways using a number of methods: Complete image to visitor with hidden text - Image Replacement Technique. One Background image as whole background with normal XHTML text - as on this site. Repeated background with XHTML text on it - Good to reduce bandwidth. Background and text all in css by use of colours and border.

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Text with shadow using CSS
This tutorial explains how to create a text with shadow using CSS.

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Basic CSS Beginners
Using CSS, you can change the appearance of all of you pages by editing only one document! No more <font> tags everywhere! You can even define the position of boxes. (divs and spans) Learn the 3 ways that you can use stylesheets to change the appearance of elements.

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CSS Forcing Words to Wrap
CSS is great isn't it? This little snippet helps you force that unruly text to wrap using a div.

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Pure CSS Popups
Learn how to create static-text popups purely through the power of CSS without using Javascript.

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CSS Basics
Well, the content of this tutorial includes What is CSS? How do I make my CSS file? What do I put into my CSS file? How do I put the CSS on my site?

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CSS and Links
Applying CSS to your links allows you to do all sorts of nice roll-over effects and advanced text highlighting. You will also be able to have many sets of links on a single page, all with different formatting.

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30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners
CSS is a language that is used by nearly every developer at some point. While it's a language that we sometimes take for granted, it is powerful and has many nuances that can help (or hurt) our designs. Here are thirty of the best CSS practices that will keep you writing solid CSS and avoiding some costly mistakes.

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CSS Tutorial For Newbies and Everybody Else
If you're familiar with HTML, know how to use a text editor and want to add some style to your pages, this tutorial will get you up to speed with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in no time!

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Scrollbar Colouring
Using CSS you can change the colours of scrollbars that appear at the edge of pages, text areas and frames. The below CSS defines these colours. Different parts of the scrollbar have different names (explained below).

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An Introduction to CSS
If you are a web designer and haven't been living in a cave for the last few years, then you must have heard of the amazing CSS technology! CSS is short for 'Cascading Style Sheets', and is a part of current web standards. Quite simply, it allows you to define your entire design from one simple document, making templates an utter doddle to set up and maintain. To help you get to grips with the new technology, this tutorial covers the basics of CSS setup, and helps get you well on your way to a more complete understanding of the CSS methodology.

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Basic CSS Tips and Tricks
The basic tips and tricks of CSS.

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Complete CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a fantastic tool to add layout to your websites. It can save you a lot of time and it enables you to design websites in a completely new way. CSS is a must for anyone working with web design. This tutorial will get you started with CSS in just a few hours. It is easy to understand and will teach you all the sophisticated techniques.

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Embedding CSS Into An HTML Document
Some of you might be wondering what CSS actually is. CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets is a simple language which is used for styling your webpages, hence the "Style Sheets" CSS is very useful and can save alot of time and effort.

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Redefine tags and create classes with Css
Use Css to manage different types of html tags and create classes for personal style sites. Before planning a complex project that leads to the creation of an entirely web site with CSS, it's important to understand how CSS work.

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CSS Comments
CSS comments can be made for a single line or multiple lines, but regardless of how you pass your comments they are always passed to the client PC and interpreted by the client browser. When commenting it's best to be as brief as possible as you're continually serving text in your applications that is doing nothing other than slowing the transfer and execution of your pages down.

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From PSD to CSS / HTML in Easy Steps Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of our tutorial. In part 1 we created the basic structure of the site on which we are going to build our photography site. This is the second in our 4 part series on how to take a PSD file and convert it into a fully CSS based html page.

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Creating and Linking External CSS Files
It is particularly useful to keep one css file for the entire website rather than having individual CSS styles in every page, advantage of having a separate CSS file is, it is easy to update and maintain the look and feel of the entire website from a single file.

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CSS Tabs menu
This is a basic CSS tabs menu, created from an ordinary HTML list. The menu supports two common requests- the ability to align the menu "left", "center", or "right" on the page, plus highlight a particular tab so it appears selected.

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Do We Really Need Proprietary CSS Properties?
Recently, I was working on a project that utilised Webkit's CSS transforms to create a cool effect as a little extra to anyone viewing the page in Safari. Firefox 3.1 will also introduce CSS transfor&hellip;

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Using Text
In this tutorial, we will look at methods for creative use of text, and how traditional methods of typesetting can be utilized via simple CSS rules.

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CSS Layouts Without Tables
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the most flexible way to create attractive, standards-compliant websites. This article will address the drawbacks of relying too heavily on tables for layout as well as the benefits of using CSS.

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Blog Layout - Design to Coding
This tutorial takes in to effect that you have a basic understanding of Photoshop, HTML and CSS already.

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Do Not Think In Tables, Think In Styles
CSS tutorial describes how to get rid of tables and create clear and lightweight HTML layout with CSS. 'Float' and 'Clear' CSS properties are explained.

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CSS Pop Up Menu 3 - Images
This tutorial expands on my last CSS pop up menu tutorial. This time I will focus on how to use image "buttons" in the menu rather than plain text.

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Creating a Navigation Bar with CSS
This interesting tutorial in HTML and CSS will show you how to create a Navigation Bar. It takes 16 steps, but they are short and easy to read. The great photos and screenshots make each step very understandable. Thanks to CSS, you can format your links with any style you choose and and can align your links horizontally or vertically. Also, using CSS instead of images to create a rollover effect helps your page load faster.

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CSS Menu Using JavaScript (Revised)
I noticed a flaw with my original JavaScript drop down menu regarding customization using CSS. The problem was this; the LI elements below the #div's that were hidden didn't conform to their own CSS customization and stuck with the rules of the above LI's. Learn more...

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Positioning
These are CSS commands that allow you to place images and text exactly where you want them on any browser.

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Selectors in CSS
This section will deal with the basic selectors in the CSS2 specification.

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How to Use CSS for Search Engine Optimization
Using external CSS files to determine the design attributes creates clean HTML code and will create better search engine rankings. With some knowledge of CSS you can change the code without destroying the visual layout.

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CSS first-child and last-child selectors
The CSS selectors :first-child and :last-child are used to apply styling to the first and last child elements of the parent. :first-child is part of the CSS 2.1 specification and :last-child CSS 3 so support is slightly limited for :first-child and more limited for :last-child. A number of browsers also have issues applying the styling correctly after additional elements have been added dynamically.

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CSS Custom Cursors
This tutorial is guide to using custom mouse pointers and cursors with css. And is geared towards someone who is new to css.

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CSS Repeating Backgrounds
Are you looking for a repeating background using CSS? This tutorial will teach you how to create 3 different css repeating backgrounds: horizontal, vertical and tiled.

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