8 Less Common CSS Properties You May Find Interesting

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We're all familiar with the most common CSS properties that we use daily, such as width, height, margin and border. And for most projects, the ones we use all the time are just fine. Of course, there are also those ones that you discover through your IDE's autocomplete feature, which can have some pretty interesting results. Some are immediately obvious to what they do, and some are not.

Remember To Add Links

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I don't know about you, but as I'm writing a blog post, I often find myself remembering a link I read earlier that is related to the subject as I'm typing. So, I usually type out the text of the link, and try to remember to add the link in later. Unfortunately, we all forget things like this too often.

Understanding the CSS z-index Property

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When we think of CSS and web design, we generally think in two dimensions. After all, the screens we use to view websites display the page as a two-dimensional image. Two of the most common CSS properties, width and height, match that.

The New Font API From Google

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Google has just recently released a new font API, which will greatly help to simplify the usage of fonts on the web. It is called, of course, Google Font API. Included with this API is the font directory, along with an interactive font preview. The Google Font API makes it extremely simple to use external [...]

Build Your Site With Dynamic CSS

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Changes to the style of the CSS of a website can be done very easily, with the magic of JavaScript. However, JavaScript can be disabled, so it should be avoided for important things.

The solution would be to use a server-side language, like PHP, to make it possible to create dynamic CSS files without having to resort to using JavaScript. Finally you can use dynamic CSS that works in all browser configurations.