While the native <select> element offers functionality, its default css styling select appearance often falls short of design aspirations. This article empowers you to create beautiful and customizable select dropdowns using CSS and explores the potential (and limitations) of the appearance property. The native options: limitations and possibilities The default […]
SCSS/CSS
This section is about CSS, a language useful for styling websites. SCSS is its compiled version, to facilitate the writing of this language, through variables, mixins and nesting.
CSS reset: cross-browser experience
We have a series of best practices to fully explore the potential that CSS has. What I want to tell you about is the so-called CSS reset, a technique that allows you to improve the cross-browser properties of your layouts. Let’s take a step back to explain the utility of […]
CSS sprites tutorial and examples
Today I will illustrate a very useful technique for optimizing your web. This is the CSS sprites technique, used by many large sites (Google, YouTube, Yahoo ..) precisely because it speeds up page loading. When we call an url, the browser loads first the page and then, through other http […]