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Because some languages go from right to left, there are some peculiar things you can do with CSS. Placing the vertical scrollbar on the other side; the left side; is one of those. Setting this to the body element causes everything on the page to change direction.

A little weird, and has little practical use (unless you actually make web pages for audiences that read from right to left). (more…)

Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) is a
language that is used to describe the stylistic
presentation of a structured document written in
HTML or XML. The CSS specification is maintained by
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). (more…)

CSS gives you many options to style elements that was never available in HTML. Now you can apply color, background color and set the different font properties as well.

Don’t go too crazy with this. Remember that a drop down menu like this, primarily serves one function; to be used. So make sure you don’t make the list too confusing to use for your users. (more…)

Small Scrollable Areas

Scrollable areas on webpages has become increasingly popular after being used by some leading design communities on the internet. Scrollbars can be done with a textarea or iframe tags, but a more frequent way of doing it is through using the abilities that already lies within HTML and CSS for any page element.

A normal block element, like a <div> can be set to a certain height and width. What happens when the content of the DIV exceeds the size given to it?

Enter the CSS property ‘overflow’. (more…)

This is a way to use graphic images as your bullets in unordered lists, bullet lists. This used to be achieved by creating a table with two columns, where the image would be in the first column and the the text in the second column. Semantically weak, this was never a good solution, but CSS comes to the rescue again. (more…)