Posts Tagged ‘css property

When auditing websites for accessibility I occasionally find elements that are incorrectly hidden with display:none. The most common example is probably skip links intended to help keyboard and screen reader users. The irony is that those well-intended skip links are made useless by display:none. The pitfalls of using display:none have been widely known among accessibility-conscious [...]

A new feature uncovered in the second beta release of iOS 5 is great news for Web developers. It seems that native-style scrolling will be made available to Mobile Safari through a new CSS property. When used, Web developers will be able to implement native-style momentum scroll in Web pages, allowing Web apps to function [...]

CSS Mask-Image & Text: Here’s something I wasn’t aware of: Add a texture to HTML text using the CSS property mask-image and a transparent PNG. Currently works only in WebKit but degrades nicely for other browsers. Thanks, Trent. Go to Source

StackLayout is a CSS framework which supports both fluid and fixed-width layouts. Compared to many popular grid systems, it only uses 12 class names in total and makes use of inline-block CSS property rather than floats. Stacks can be nested infinitely which helps creating complicated layouts easily. The framework has a component (a CSS file) [...]

Typography is an essential component of a website’s design. This is for good reason: good typography is not only imperative for aesthetic appeal, but also improves site usability when text legibility and readability concepts are applied. Typography is all about proportions and spacing. There are also font styles to consider. How can we use CSS [...]


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