HTML/CSS

to merge from bits of design.

General

• https://github.com/necolas/idiomatic-css
• http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/

Specificity

p has a specificity of 1 (1 HTML)
div p has a specificity of 2 (2 HTML; 1+1)
.sith has a specificity of 10 (1 class)
div p.sith has a specificity of 12 (2 HTML and a class; 1+1+10)
#sith has a specificity of 100 (1 id)
body #darkside .sith p has a specificity of 112 (HTML, id, class, HTML; 1+100+10+1)

[1] [2] ([3]),[4]

Selectors

• http://twostepmedia.co.uk/cssselectors/
• http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/the-30-css-selectors-you-must-memorize/

h1 + h2
  <h1></h1><h2></h2>

h1 > h2
  <h1><h2></h2></h1>

Positioning

display: block - default 100% width, flows vertically
display: inline - consumes width of content, flows horizontally
display: inline-block
  http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html

float - floats element next to containing box or other floated element

position: absolute - out of flow

• Google HTML/CSS/Javascript from the Ground Up Class: CSS Walkthrough

rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) - shadow

• https://github.com/andreasbovens/understanding-viewport
• http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/default.asp

• http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/vertical-centering-with-css/
• http://css-tricks.com/what-is-vertical-align/

Tips

• http://paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/ [5]

Responsive

• http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-elastic-videos
• http://drupal.org/node/1413558
• http://drupal.org/node/1535954
• http://groups.drupal.org/node/233238

• http://drupal.org/project/fitvids - js lib

background

• http://whereswalden.com/files/mozilla/background-size/more-examples.html

• http://www.impressivewebs.com/image-tint-blend-css/

Animations & transitions

• http://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/

Resets, etc.

• https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/wiki [6]
  • http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/

• http://html5boilerplate.com/docs/css/

Grid

• http://960.gs
• http://compass-style.org/reference/blueprint/grid/

• http://grids.heroku.com/
• http://www.gridsystemgenerator.com/gs01.php
• http://gridpak.com/
• http://www.designbygrid.com/tools

• http://blog.centresource.com/2009/06/15/6-tips-and-tricks-for-designing-with-960/
• http://divitodesign.com/css/tricks-to-solve-960-css-framework-problems/

• http://hashgrid.com/ - js grid display

Vertical rhythm

• The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
  • Vertical Motion
• http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm - oft' linked to

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Web

• http://www.gridlover.net/
• http://drewish.com/tools/vertical-rhythm - calculator, px based
• http://topfunky.com/baseline-rhythm-calculator/ - px based

JS

• Syncotype-Alt
• http://www.fortes.com/2008/jmetronome-using-jquery-to-keep-typographic-rhythm

Bookmarklets

• http://gridwax.gs/ - great
• http://sfcgeorge.github.com/Grid-Bookmarklet/
• http://scribu.net/util/baseline-checker-bookmarklet.html

CSS

• Check Your Vertical Rhythm With CSS3 gradients
• http://basehold.it/

Sass

• https://github.com/pyrsmk/vertical-rhythmic - sass mixins (no sure if worth it)
• https://github.com/OliverJAsh/vertical-rhythm

Typography

• CSS with vertical rhythm - drewish.com
• Scale & Rhythm

Font symbols

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672526
• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3675301

Sprites

• http://www.phpied.com/command-line-css-spriting/

Header, footer

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/643879/css-to-make-html-page-footer-stay-at-bottom-of-the-page-with-a-minimum-height

Menus

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2865380/how-do-i-center-align-horizontal-ul-menu

Gradients

• ColorZilla Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator

Misc

• http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-without-html

• http://davatron5000.github.com/deCSS3/ - bookmarklet to test pre css3 browsers

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2_6bGNZ7bA Faster HTML and CSS: Layout Engine Internals for Web Developers