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to merge from bits of design. aaand break out. and generally sort.

Standards

See also Data

HTML

CSS

Docs, guides, etc.

Basics

Resources

  • W3Techs - World Wide Web Technology Surveys

Articles

Project basics

Favicon

Articles

Tools

JavaScript

Resets, normalize, etc.

Different browsers have different defaults. You can either reset them to zero, or normalise with cross-browser sensible defaults.

Polyfills, shim/shivs

For fixing the lack of HTML5/CSS3 support in older browsers.

  • Modernizr is a small JavaScript library that detects the availability of native implementations for next-generation web technologies, i.e. features that stem from the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications. Many of these features are already implemented in at least one major browser (most of them in two or more), and what Modernizr does is, very simply, tell you whether the current browser has this feature natively implemented or not.]

Filters

Structure

Meta

Elements

  • sections;
    • body, main, section, nav, article, aside, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hgroup, header, footer, address
  • grouping;
    • p, hr, pre, blockquote, ol, ul, li, dl, dt, dd, figure, figcaption, div
  • text level;
    • a, em, strong, small, s, cite, q, dfn, abbr, data, time, code, var, samp, kbd, sub/sup, i, b, u, mark, ruby, rt, rp, bdi, bdo, span, br, wbr

Articles

hrm;

div

span

Comments

<!-- this is
 a multiline
 comment -->

Doctype

Style

Anchor

Images

See Graphics

Lists

From Wikipedia; 

list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);

Horizontal list; 

#navlist li {
  display: inline;
  list-style-type: none;
  padding-right: 20px;
}

Quote

Forms and input


Commands

Video

Tab order

Pseudo-elements

q::before { content: "»" }
q::after { content: '«' }

Was just one colon, but CSS3 added another to distinguish from pseudo-classes. 

content: "";
  needed to display

element {
  position: relative;
  background: black; 
}

element:before, element:after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  background: black;  /* Match the background */
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 9999px;   /* some huge width */
}

element:before {
  right: 100%; 
}

element:after {
  left: 100%;
}

html, body {
   overflow-x: hidden;
}

To the left; 

element:after {
  display: none;
}

To the right; 

element:before {
  width: 20px;
}

Step it up, step it up, it's alright.

Tables

Not bad for tabular data, styling has advantages and disadvantages.. 

<table border="1">
   <tr>
     <th colspan="2">Table header</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Table cell 1</td><td>Table cell 2</td>
   </tr>
 </table>

Units

  • 1em - element font size (affected by element nesting depth)
  • 1rem - root element font size
  • 1em = 16px (by default anyway)
  • 1px (css pixel) = 1/96in
  • 1vp = 1% viewport width
  • 1in (inch) = 2.539954cm
  • 1pt (point) = 1/72in
  • 1pc (pica) = 12pt

rem

v*

100vw == window.width

examples

color

The color CSS property sets the foreground color of an element's text content, and its decorations. It doesn't affect any other characteristic of the element; it should really be called text-color and would have been named so, save for historical reasons and its appearance in CSS Level 1. Note that, the color value must be a uniform color, eventually not completely opaque, and can't be a <gradient> which is a <image> in CSS. 

color: red;                     // A CSS Level 1 color
color: orange;                  // The only color added in CSS Level 2 (Revision 1)
color: antiquewhite;            // A CSS Level 3 color, sometimes called a SVG or X11 color.
color: #0f0;                    // The color 'lime' defined using the 3-character dash notation.
color: #00ff00                  // The color 'lime' defined using the 6-character dash notation.
color: rgba( 34, 12, 64, 0.3);  // A color defined using of the available functional notations.
color: currentColor;            // The special keyword representing the color's value of its direct ancestor

color: inherit

#bada55, etc.

Selectors

h1 > h2
  child combinator
  just matching first order descendant elements

Specificity

HN: 256 CSS Classes Can Override an #id

!important

Attribute selectors

Pseudo-classes

From Pseudo Class Selectors; 

:root
  Selects the element that is at the root of the document. Almost certainly will select the <html> element, unless you are specifically working in some weird environment that somehow also allows CSS. Perhaps XML.

:first-child
  Selects the first element of its type within a parent.

:last-child
  Selects the last element of its type within a parent.

:nth-child(N)
  Selects elements based on a simple provided algebraic expression (e.g. "2n" or "4n-1"). Has the ability to do things like select even/odd elements, "every third", "the first five", and things like that. Covered in more detail here with a tester tool.

:nth-of-type(N)
  Works like :nth-child, but used in places where the elements at the same level are of different types. Like if inside a div you had a number of paragraphs and a number of images. You wanted to select all the odd images. :nth-child won't work there, you'd use div img:nth-of-type(odd). Particularly useful when working with definition lists and their alternating -dt- and -dd- elements.

:first-of-type
  Selects the first element of this type within any parent. So if you have two divs, each had within it a paragraph, image, paragraph, image. Then div img:first-of-type would select the first image inside the first div and the first image inside the second div.

:last-of-type
  Same as above, only would select the last image inside the first div and the last image inside the second div.

:nth-last-of-type(N)
  Works like :nth-of-type, but it counts up from the bottom instead of the top.

:nth-last-child(N)
  Works like :nth-child, but it counts up from the bottom instead of the top.

:only-of-type
  Selects only if the element is the only one of its kind within the current parent.

Parent

CSS Selectors 4 Spec

Layout

width

display

display: block - default 100% width, flows vertically
display: inline - consumes width of content, flows horizontally
display: inline-block
display: table-cell - vertical align method [3]
  http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html

float

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

clear

position

position: absolute - out of flow
position: fixed

sticky

vertical align

margin: auto;
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0;

overflow

prevent scrollbars

z-index

z-index works only on absolute or relative positioned elements.

via js; 

object.style.zIndex="1"

flexbox

box-sizing

clip

Tips

css is stoopid

Text

See also Typography

text-align

text-align [ start | end | left | right | center ] || <string> ] | justify | match-parent | start end

text-rendering

text-rendering auto | optimizeSpeed | optimizeLegibility | geometricPrecision

"Basically, setting the value of “optimizeLegibility” for the “text-rendering” property lets you enable things like ligatures and more accurate kerning (the spacing between letters), which, as the name of the value implies, leads to improved legibility and an overall better appearance of the text as unnecessary spaces are eliminated where possible."

"There are actually significant, effectively fatal performance problems (such as 30-second loading delays, or longer) on mobile devices when using optimizeLegibility for long pages."

text-transform

text-transform:  none | capitalize | uppercase | lowercase | full-width

text-shadow

text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.1);

color: #fff;
text-shadow: 0 0 40px rgba(255,255,255,.25);

See also Style#Shadows

text-stroke

Webkit only.

  • strokeText.js is an unobtrusive javascript library working in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari and IE6+. The library provides cross API text stroking capability for Canvas and VML. The (built in) sans-serif font is also adapted for SVG to ensure an identical representation.

text-overflow

text-overflow  [ clip | ellipsis | <string> ]
  determines how overflowed content that is not displayed is signaled to the users.

or with gradient; http://xion.org.pl/2011/12/26/text-ellipsis-with-gradient-fade-in-pure-css/

word-wrap

mask-image

Properties

background

  • background transparent || none || repeat || scroll || 0% 0%
background: #f00;
background: url('http://example.com/image.png');
background: url(bgimage.jpg) no-repeat;

.multi_bg_example {
  background: url(http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/resources/images/logos/firefox-48.png),
    linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0),  rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)),
      url(http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/resources/images/patterns/flowers-pattern.jpg);
  background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, repeat;
  background-position: bottom right, left, right;
}

background-color

background-color: white;

background-image

background-image: url('file.png')

background-repeat

background-repeat: no-repeat;
  stops the image repeating (tiling)

background-position

background-position: 0% 0%

background-attachment

background-attachment: scroll / fixed / local;

background-size

background-size: 100%;
  make background exactly fit element

background-size: 50% 50%;

background-clip

background-clip: border-box / padding-box / content-box;
   specifies whether an element's background, either the color or image, extends underneath its border.

background-clip: text;
  works well with text-fill-color: transparent;

border

border:  <border-width> || <border-style> || <color>

element { border: dashed }          /* dashed border of medium thickness, the same color as the text */
element { border: dotted 1.5em }    /* dotted, 1.5em thick border, the same color as the text */
element { border: solid red }       /* solid, red border of medium thickness */
element { border: solid blue 10px } /* solid, blue border of 10px thickness */

border-radius

broder-radius [ <length> | <percentage> ]{1,4} [ / [ <length> | <percentage> ]{1,4} ]?

gradients

linear

linear-gradient([ [ [ <angle> | to [top | bottom] || [left | right] ],]? <color-stop>[, <color-stop>]+);

background: linear-gradient(to right, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet);
background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom right, red, rgba(255,0,0,0));


  1. 00ffffff colour breaks Sass (argb hex)

radial

Tools

mask

No IE or FF [8]. FF SVG hack.

box-shadow

box-shadow: inset? <offset-x> <offset-y> <blur-radius>? <spread-radius>? <color>?, .etc

box-shadow: inset 0 0 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
box-shadow: inset 0 0.3em 10px -8px black;

See also Style#Shadows

white-space

outline

opacity

transform

  • CSS3Warp is a small (<8kb minified unzipped) javascript library for warping any HTML text around an arbitrary path. Text will look as if it were created with Illustrator's attach-to-path tool. Anyway it is pure HTML text that can be styled with CSS, copied and crawled. csswarp works standalone and does not rely on jQuery or another library (a jQuery plugin is in the works though). csswarp.js offers an extensive number of settings to adjust text warping. Right now it will work in every modern browser that supports css3 transforms. Support for IE versions <9 is planned for a future release.

transition

body {
  transition:all .5s ease-in-out; 
  -o-transition:all .5s ease-in-out; 
  -moz-transition:all .5s ease-in-out; 
  -webkit-transition:all .5s ease-in-out;
}

transition: color 1s ease;
transition: background 1s ease;
transition: background-color 1s ease;

transition-timing-function: ease
transition-timing-function: ease-in
transition-timing-function: ease-out
transition-timing-function: ease-in-out
transition-timing-function: linear
transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.1, 0.7, 1.0, 0.1)
transition-timing-function: step-start
transition-timing-function: step-stop
transition-timing-function: steps(4, end)

transition-timing-function: ease, step-start, cubic-bezier(0.1, 0.7, 1.0, 0.1)

wrap


cursor

CSS forms

Shapes

Buttons

  • Buttonize - The Instant Button Companion v3.1

Icons

Shapes

Patterns

Tooltips

  • Hint.css is a tooltip library written in SASS which uses only HTML/CSS to create simple tooltips.

Forms

other

Sprites

ls
  1.png  2.gif  dot.png  phoney.gif  tw.gif
convert *png *gif -append result/result-sprite.png


Canvas

Text

  • CanvasText is a library written in JavasScript that lets you write styled text easier and with a similar HTML & CSS syntax.

Images

Screenshots

Polyfill

Extensions

Other

  • Ejecta - A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas & Audio Implementation for iOS

Animation

Tools

Examples

3D

Javascript

Filters

only chrome has native support as of nov 2012.

Header, footer

Iframes


Full screen

Scrollbars

See also JS

Printing

CSS libraries

Data URI

  • DataURL.net is home to some open source tools for creating and working with Data URLs (RFC 2397).

Data Attributes

Microdata

IndexedDB

webstorage

  • Storage interface
  • sessionStorage attribute
  • localStorage attribute
  • storage event
  • etc.
  • dustbin - A slim wrapper around localStorage and sessionStorage that allows for NoSQL style access. It's basically a JSON-backed object database for your web browser.


Web Components

  • Polymer is a new type of library for the web, built on top of Web Components, and designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers. A set of polyfills (Shadow DOM, Custom Elements, HTML Imports), and a next-generation web application framework built upon these core technologies called the Polymer.

Shadow DOM

Not widely implemented.

Custom Elements

  • X-Tag is a small JavaScript library, created and supported by Mozilla, that brings Web Components Custom Element capabilities to all modern browsers.

WebGL

Misc

Compatibility

Various methods and polyfills.

Accessibility

W3C

Specs

BS 8878, Web accessibility - Code of Practice, is consistent with the Equality Act 2010 and is referenced in the UK government’s e-Accessibility Action Plan

Headings should not be removed using display:none, because it removes the headings from assistive technology. Instead headings can be made invisible to sighted users using CSS class="element-invisible". [14]

Screen readers

robots.txt

Other

tools

Future

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