3 Quick Tips for Less Repetition in Stylesheets
When you hear the word “Sass,” what comes to mind? For a lot of people it’s the most popular CSS precompiler to date. Sass takes vanilla CSS and adds variables, nesting, functions, math and more to...
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Box-Sizing: The Secret to Simple CSS Layouts
(Photograph from Flickr user Rachel Kramer) Box-sizing is a CSS property that makes CSS layouts work intuitively. If you’ve been working with CSS for any period of time, you know that using properties...
View ArticleModular Pseudo-Elements with Sass
code {background: none; padding: 0; font-size: 15px;} When generating pseudo-elements with CSS, we usually need to define certain properties to display the elements. This often means repeating CSS...
View ArticleSmarter Sass Mixins with Null
code {background: none; padding: 0; font-size: 15px;} With Sass mixins we’re able to pass a list of arguments to set the values of properties. For example, the following mixin uses four variables as...
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Customize Ordered Lists with the ::before Pseudo- Element
Web browsers let you customize the look of most aspects of a page using CSS. But when rendering some page elements, web browsers are resistant to your styling efforts. For example, form elements like...
View ArticleNew Course: Modular CSS with Sass
In this new course, you’re going to build a UI toolkit using Sass and many of the best practices and principles of modular CSS architecture. You’ll learn how a modular approach with Sass can boost your...
View ArticleNew Courses: AngularJS, CSS Basics & Ruby Objects
New Courses: CSS Basics CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language that describes the presentation of web pages. Whereas HTML is what forms the structure of a web page, CSS is what we use...
View ArticleWhat is CSS?
If you’re new to building websites, you’ve probably heard about CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets. But what is CSS exactly, and why do we use it on the Web? In this clip from the new CSS Basics course at...
View ArticleCreate an SVG Sprite Sheet
Image sprites are still a useful feature in web design. They’re also important for website optimization because they combine several images into one image file to reduce HTTP requests. In this...
View ArticleHow to Create a Simple CSS Dropdown Menu
Many dropdown menus we see on websites use JavaScript in some way, but it’s possible to build one entirely with HTML and CSS. In this short video tutorial, we’ll take advantage of helpful CSS selectors...
View ArticleNew Courses: CSS, PHP, and Ruby
Here’s a look at the newest courses now available at Treehouse! CSS Selectors In this course taught by our resident CSS expert, Guil Hernandez, you’ll go beyond the basic selector concepts covered in...
View ArticleHow to Create a Sticky Navigation
Many websites use a “sticky” feature in their main navigation menu. The menu scrolls with the page, then sticks to the top once it reaches the top of the viewport. There are lots of jQuery plugins we...
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