http://www.whatiscss.com Resources and Magazine Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:26:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Setting Fonts with CSS In HTML, if you want to change the font used in an element you would use the font element.  This could make your code very messy if you had the same font that you want to use multiple  times, but not make the font the same on the whole ... http://www.whatiscss.com/setting-fonts-with-css/ List List can be very useful to a website. By using some CSS, you can create a nice frequently asked questions page for your site, or even a menu for your site. Let us look at some of the additional controls that CSS gives us with list. List-Style List-style is the shorthand way ... http://www.whatiscss.com/list/ Media Types With CSS, you can also control how your website looks on other media. Most sites only have a style sheet that controls the way the site looks on a monitor, since that is where most of the people who visit the site will see it, but there are other ... http://www.whatiscss.com/media-types/ There are multiple techniques for centering a block element; and the choice for the technique depends on whether you have the size set in percentages or in more absolute values. Centering an entire page’s contents body {   text-align: center;   min-width: 500px; } #wrapper {   text-align: left;   width: 500px;   margin-left: auto;   margin-right: auto; } Commented example body {   ... http://www.whatiscss.com/centering-block-element/   It’s an Internet Explorer-exclusive bug wherein an element that is floated – and given a margin in the same direction as the float – ends up with twice the specified margin size. The fix is extremely simple. All you have to do is apply a display: inline rule to your ... http://www.whatiscss.com/ie-double-margin-float-bug/ If your are experienced with CSS or have coded a website before, you have probably heard of CSS resets CSS resets are chunks of CSS code designed to make life easier on the coder/designer when coding the website. CSS resets are an extremely useful tool in making your site ... http://www.whatiscss.com/cross-browser-reset-css-techniques/ CSS can be used to set the style parameters of your entire website. With CSS, you can control the look of your website's: Font types Font and element colors Padding Margins Element positioning And much more. The advantage of CSS is that it allows you to set the formatting of your site without affecting the site's underlying ... http://www.whatiscss.com/what-can-i-do-with-css/ CSS Browser Selector. A script that allows you to create browser specific CSS to target specific browsers. http://www.whatiscss.com/css-browser-selector/ On January 12, 1999, Microsoft Corp. (microsoft.com) was granted U.S. Patent #5,860,073. This particular patent, titled "Style sheets for publishing system(s)," covers "the use of style sheets in an electronic publishing system." Sound familiar? The inventors listed in this patent claim to have developed a system whereby "text, or other media ... http://www.whatiscss.com/who-owns-css/ Free CSS Toolbox is a freeware productivity software for web developers who work with CSS code. Free CSS Toolbox includes a number of tools for fast-tracking and enhancing the development of style sheet code, such as an advanced CSS Formatter and CSS Validator. http://www.whatiscss.com/free-css-validator-css-formatter-css-compressor/