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Some CSS resources and quick notes


CSS is something we all pre assume that we know and can code, think again.

Following are some quick notes you can refer, post your comments for further discussions.

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Z index is the order of stacking, ie placing of elements one over another

font size: em are preferred over pix for device compatibility

font-variant: small-caps

text-transform: uppercase;

text-align: justify or center

text-indent: 1em(can also be negative)

curning is changing the letter spacing to make text more readable

letter-spacing: 1em

word space:

line-height: 1,6 (times the size of normal font)


box model: from outside

1) margin
2) border - width, style, color
3) padding
4) width(inside)

facts: if a propery is not declared, don't assume the value is 0
elements often have default margins that you need to account for

a 100% width property when combined with padding and borders will create elemenst that are larger than their parent.


Margins and padding

Padding: top right bottom left


background: gardient

hsl model in CSS3 - hue saturation and lightness

units: absolute values: in, cm, mm, pt, pc

relative units: em, exes, px, gd, rem, ch, vm, vh

---positions

normal , element and absolute positions

normal- when we do nothing and it is default

relative is with normal document flow

absolute does not follow the normal flow, and other elements occupies the space of that moved element

fixed no movement

element stacking-z index

---floats- float left , clear both


whats new in css3

border radius, box shadow,  multiple backgrounds, rgba hsla, text shadow, multiple columns, web fonts, css gradiant. transforms, transitions, animations

animations and transitions are not same

---vendor prefixes ---

cross browser syntax like moz, opera, webkit


popular CSS framework ---
blueprint -- www.blueprint.org

52 framework -- 52framework.com

960gridsystem -- http://960.gs
filter

YUI2 framework -- developer.yahoo.com

CSS boilerplate -- code.google.com

baseline -  advance typographic styles



for prepocessors

less-- lesscss.org and sass -- sasslang.com

turbine , switch css, css cacheer


css editors

notepad++

improvingcode.com/snapcss

v imp -- rapid css -- bluementals.net

simple css- hostm.com/css

stylemaster -- westsiv.com


IMP - stylizer -- skybound.ca

coffecup


-----online tools for css-----

css3generator.com

css3.me

css3please.com

layerstyles.org

css3.milkplate.com

css3maker.com

colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/

westsiv.com

validator.w3.org

csslint.net


alvit.de/handbook

reference.sitepoint.com/css

css-tricks

typetester.org

kuler.adobe.com

colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/
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