Ever since its inception sometime in 1994, possibly created in CERN – the cradle of the web, CSS has come a long way. Creating shapes using CSS3 alone without the use of images is now made possible with its new properties. Creating a CSS3 diamond grid shape is cool by itself but how about combining multiple diamonds to create a grid?
Sam Norton from 1stwebdesigner has shared how to create CSS3 diamond grid by using the combination of HTML and CSS3.
One thing about CSS Media queries is that it allows you to target CSS rules based on – for instance – screen size, device-orientation or display-density. This means you can use CSS Media Queries to tweak a CSS for an iPad, printer or create a responsive site.
Learn to create a responsive website using CSS Media Queries with a number of tutorials provided by Netherlands-based developer Niels van Hove.
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Accordion menu is a list of item stacked with functions to be “expanded” or “stretched” to reveal the content of the item. Usually accordion menus will be done using javascript code. But in this case, Paul Underwood has shared how to create horizontal and vertical accordion menus by using CSS3.
Hamburger menu is very useful when creating responsive website. A long list of menu can be hidden until user clicks a hamburger lookalike button to see the menu. This will save lots of space in small screen devices. Thomas Zinnbauer has shared how to create this function by using combination CSS3 and javascript.
Instead of editing picture color filtering before uploading to the website, front-end developers can set a CSS filter to achieve the effect. Bennett Feely has shared how to filter images with using CSS. However this technique is only supported in Google Chrome for now.
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