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New Mobile CSS Styles for Perishable Press

The amount of time I spend surfing the Web from a mobile device has steadily increased since the acquisition of my new ...

A Killer Collection of Global CSS Reset Styles

Using CSS to style semantically meaningful (X)HTML markup is an important key to modern web design ...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Favicons

Fifty Favorite Favicons If you have a website, you need a favicon. For those who ...

Absolute Horizontal and Vertical Centering via CSS

Recently, a reader named Max encountered some scrolling issues while implementing our absolutely centered layout technique. Of course, by ...

CSS Throwdown: Preload Images without JavaScript

Clean, easy, effective. You don’t need no stinking JavaScript to preload your images. Nope. Try some tasty CSS and (X)HTML instead! Here’s how.. (only two steps!) Step ...

Standards-Compliance Throwdown: MS-IE5/6 DNS/404 Error-Page Redesign

[ Keywords: Microsoft, MS, IE, DNS, 404, CSS, Error, Monzilla, Explorer, redesign ] Default DNS Error page for Internet Explorer First of ...

Maximum and Minimum Height and Width in Internet Explorer

Behold the seventh wonder of the virtual world: max/min-height and max/min-width properties are possible in Internet Explorer! Indeed, by taking advantage of IE’s proprietary CSS attribute, expression, you too can whip IE widths ...

Keep it Dark: Hiding and Filtering CSS

Hiding and filtering CSS rules for specifically targeted browsers is often a foregone conclusion when it comes to cross-browser design considerations. Rather than dive into some lengthy dialogue concerning the myriad situations and ...

Firefox CSS Magic

Consider this post an evolving receptacle for Firefox-specific CSS tricks. Change the color of highlighted text *::-moz-selection { background: #FF3C00; /* the background color of the highlight */ color: #FFF; /* ...

Absolutely Centered Layout

Absolute Centering with CSS & (X)HTML Designing an absolutely centered layout involves centering a division both horizontally and vertically. When this is done, the centered division (or other element) is centered according to the ...

IE Scrollbar Colors

Changing the color of scrollbars for Internet Explorer may very well be the oldest trick in the book. In fact, this post exists mostly for the sake of prosperity, as we here at ...

Nifty CSS Link Hover Effect

This nifty CSS link hover effect magically reveals a hidden span of text after specified links. The trick employs an anonymous span nested within an anchor tag. CSS then acts upon the markup ...

CSS Code Repository

Here is our online (i.e., public) repository of interesting, mysterious, and/or perhaps even useful CSS code: Perishable Press CSS Code Repository [downloads ]

Crazy CSS Underline Effects

Check out these crazy CSS underline effects: u.double { /* -- double underline -- */ border-bottom: 1px solid; } .altdouble { /* alternate double */ border-bottom: 3px double; line-height: 1.7em; } u.triple { /* -- triple threat -- */ border-bottom: 3px double; line-height: ...

CSS Hack Dumpster

Consider this page a virtual dumpster of wonderful CSS hacks.. Commented Backslash Hack V2 This hack effectively hides anything after the “\*/” from MacIE5: /* commented backslash hack v2 \*/ div#something { boder: thin solid ...

Press Color Archive

Our official location for dumping notable color swatches: | #1A1A1A | #383838 | #666677 | #E1E1E1 | #F0F0F0...

A Complete CSS Template File

To help maintain consistency when developing new CSS-styled websites, we have created a complete CSS template file. The file contains every HTML/XHTML tag known to man. This includes tags such as BASEFONT and ...