QuickTips Index
Converting the body Tag to CSS
Most HTML body tags are really ugly - crammed with lots of attributes that can be left off of a well-designed XHTML document.
How do you define the size of a font?
It's easy to make the fonts of your HTML documents larger and smaller with the font-size property.
CSS Media Types
Use CSS media types to define different styles for different types of media, such as screen, print, tv, aural and others.
Cascading Style Sheets Descendant Selectors
CSS descendant selectors make it possible to define styles on elements that appear in certain locations.
CSS Drop Caps
CSS drop caps are easy to create and this simple example will show you how.
Types of CSS Styles
Understanding the three types of CSS styles is important if you're going to use cascading style sheets effectively.
Use Multiple CSS Classes on a Single Element
One of the more useful tricks with CSS is the fact that with the modern browsers you can use multiple CSS classes on one element to add styles as you need them.
CSS Navigation Elements
When using CSS for navigation elements, you should make the element a block-level element to aid usability on your Web site. CSS navigation is easy to do and this CSS property makes them usable.
Adjacent Sibling Selectors
CSS selectors of elements that are right next to one another. These elements are called adjacent elements or sibling elements.
How to Hide Links Using CSS
This quick tip will show you how to hide links so that they look and act like the surrounding text or images. This tip goes beyond just removing the underlines, it will make your link completely blend into the surrounding text.
Flexible CSS Descendants
It reall doesn't matter where you put the decendants to make them work correctly in CSS
Defining Specific Descent Layers in CSS
CSS descendant selectors make it possible to define styles on elements that appear in certain locations.
Why Use CSS Descendants?
Using CSS descendants you can define a document more specifically without causing problems in the future.