CSS’s clear attribute
It is often the case that as you progress from the most basic web development skills, it appears that the…
HTML “drop cap” using CSS
The drop cap effect can be used to great effect to create a more traditional, book-like effect on a web…
Columns in HTML using CSS
A quick and easy method of adding columns to your HTML page using CSS to create a newspaper column layout.…
CSS selectors – the basics
In the post Starting simple CSS I left off with a basic CSS rule. Your formatting requirements will quickly require…
Create a custom bullet using CSS
HTML offers a small list of bullet options for unordered lists. Read up on lists in the post HTML lists.…
Expressing colors in CSS
This article is a follow up to Expressing colors in HTML and is part of a series of posts aiming…
HTML lists styled as menus using CSS
Website menus are essentially lists of links and are therefore often coded as HTML lists and then styled using CSS…
Creating a fixed footer with CSS
A web page often contains too little content to fill the vertical height of the browser portal. This means that…
Starting simple CSS
The CAT curriculum, unfortunately, teaches a very old version of HTML. Modern web development has moved on dramatically. In this…
Zebra-striping table using CSS3
I love that CSS3 allows zebra-striping of tables using the nth-child() selector. Achieving this in plain HTML is a messy…