Positioning and Styling CSS Tutorials

Simple image frame border effect
In this post I will explain who to make a simple but nice image border frame effect with css.

Shorthand Borders, Margins And Padding
This tutorial covers using CSS shorthand in borders, margins and padding.

Float bug fix in div to expand
Many of would find a problem when using a block(div) called a container with the background color, where you don't want to use float or height to the div. And in the inner div of the container you want to give float to it. You can find this issue in most of the browser like ie, firefox, the container will not expland as the inner div.

Fluid, multi-column, vertically ordered list
Create a fluid, multi-column, vertically ordered list using nested, floating divs.

Learn CSS: Border Styles and Properties
There are many different style and settings for borders in CSS. This tutorial hopes to teach you the basics of adding borders to page elements, div tags and images with various border properties.

Checking Out: Progress Meters
The progress meter is a very common design solution used to indicate to the user's state within a flow. On the design side, much effort may go in to crafting a solution that is as visually informative as possible. On the development side, however, solutions range widely. I've checked out the checkouts at a number of sites and heres what I've found when it comes to progress meters: they're sometimes inaccessible and often confusing or unhelpful all because of the way in which they're coded. For those who use assistive devices or text only browsers, there must be a better way to code the progress meter and there is.

The First Tool You Reach For
Kevin Yank gets down and dirty with CSS tables, a technique that offers all the layout properties we loved from long forsaken HTML tables with the clear advantages of modern CSS based design. Remember, just because it looks like a table and flows like a table, doesn't mean it has to be bad.

A Festive Type Folly
Jon Tan upholds the good British tradition of building follies and talks us through the process of creating one such on the web using only HTML and CSS. Follies themselves are just for enjoyment. However, there’s always interesting things to be learned when we venture out and have some fun.

Absolute Columns
CSS layouts have come quite a long way since the dark ages of web publishing, with all sorts of creative applications of floats, negative margins, and even background images employed in order to give us that most basic building block, the column. As the title implies, we are indeed going to be discussing columns today-more to the point, a handy little application of absolute positioning that may be exactly what you've been looking for...

Styling links with CSS
Learn how to add interesting CSS styles to HTML links, including visited and rolled-over links. Discover how to change colours and add images to links.

Solving the CSS Padding Problem
This tutorial shows you how to solve the "CSS Padding Problem" - a problem that comes when you apply a padding style to a div, and the div's width expands.

Quick Tip: CSS 100% Height
I don't know about you, but I always get frustrated trying to figure out how to get my layout to stretch vertically to 100% of the page. I have a div that I want to stretch, but it just doesn't stretch. Now why wouldn't it do that? In this tutorial, I will share the solution with you.

Positioning in CSS
In the world of web design, positioning is everything. As today's browsers get more sophisicated, positioning can't be ignored. This tutorial will show you different approach of positioning with CSS.

Paragraph Tags
Paragraphs tags are used in a way similar to heading tags. They can unify a site. A paragraph tag often is used to determine indenting, spacing and other factors that will make your site stand out as unique.

Margins
This tutorial will teach you how to set margin by using css.

How to stay A-Float in CSS
The secret to good CSS layouts rests with the Float attribute. Using float instead of relative or absolute positioning makes complex layouts easy.

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.

Using Clearing Divs
When coding a website in CSS and XHTML many people like to have two columns. To get this you use the "float" attribute in your CSS. The can align one column to the left and the other to the right. What many people find troubling is having two floated columns in a centred holder. When coding a website you usually call this holder the "wrapper". Also when designing and coding a website you generally want to make the site centrally aligned.

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

Absolute Positioning
Absolute positioning allows you to set an object's placement on a page by setting its offset position from the left, right, top, and bottom margins. When an element is positioned absolutely, it is removed from the normal flow, and has no effect on other elements in the normal flow.