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Styling a table using CSS

Chris Coyier on writing good HTML-CSS

I'm a new contributor to the SitePoint blogs and will mostly be covering front-end development and Semantic Web technologies. I'm looking forward to participating in the SitePoint community! Sometimes it's the simplest things that go unnoticed for the longest time. Case in point, while catching up on some WSG reading tonight, I saw a link to Paul Hammond's Conditional classnames for Internet Explorer. In a sentence, he shows how using conditional comments to customize the element's class name can be used to simplify CSS selectors for a number of advantageous purposes.

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Did you like my previous CSS tutorial on how to create gradient text effects? I'm using the same trick to show you how to decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source images. The trick is very simple. All you need is an extra tag and apply a background image to create the overlaying effect. It is very easy and flexible - see my demos with over 20 styles, from a simple image icon to a rounded corner to a masked layer (both decorative and complex).

Trick to show how to decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source images.

With this little CSS technique a user can identify a link by its icon.

This is a CSS tutorial providing an introduction to CSS lists, teaching all the essentials, and also gives webmasters a much better way to use list-style-images or bullets by not using them at all.

I've put together a list of useful CSS classes I find myself using on a regular basis, and a few of these are actually required by the Wordpress gang if you're going to submit a free Wordpress template to them.

List of CSS articles and tutorials at SitePoint. Includes Adobe AiR and WebKit implementations.

The easy way to use CSS2.1 to solve difficult cross-browser layout issues: CSS tables solve all the problems encountered when using absolute positioning or floats to create multi-column layouts in modern browsers. Specifying the value table for the display property of an element allows you to display the element and its descendants as though they're table elements. The main benefit of CSS table-based layouts is the ability to easily define the boundaries of a cell so that we can add backgrounds and so on to it-without the semantic problems of marking up non-tabular content as a HTML table in the document.

With typeface.js you can embed custom fonts in your web pages so you don't have to render text to images.

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In the previous article in this series, we covered the basic concept of progressive enhancement; now, we can begin discussing how to use it. There are many ways to integrate progressive enhancement into your work using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and this article will cover a few of the biggies and get you thinking about other ways to progressively enhance your sites.

In this article I'm going to show you various ways that I myself have written my CSS files with an emphasis on some sort of order. This is my evolution of CSS authoring, if you will. I'll also be coining phrases as I go along to give some sort of personality to the aggregation of code. Maybe they will catch on..

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