CSS has a whole lot of power. There are properties and values for any number of amazing designs. With all that power comes a lot to remember. If you don't know about all the tools in your toolbox, how will you find the right one for the job? In this post, we'll take a look at three lesser-used, but super useful tools for various jobs in CSS.

The CSS contain property gives you a way to explain your layout to the browser, so performance optimizations can be made. However, it does come with some side effects in terms of your layout.

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CSS variables let you define values for reuse throughout a CSS file , opening the door to more efficient theming capabilities — no preprocessors necessary.

Custom properties (also known as CSS variables) allow us to store property values for re-use in our stylesheets. If you’re relatively new to…

Rachel Andrew guides us through a tour of the last fifteen years in CSS layout, as manifested in articles here on 24 ways. From the days when Internet Explorer 6 was de rigueur, right up to the modern age of evergreen browsers, the only thing you can be sure of is that the web never stands still for long.

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Andy Clarke digs deep into snow to find ways flat design can be brought back to life in CSS with the use of techniques to create a sense of depth. Like spring after an everlasting winter, perhaps it’s time to let a different style of design flourish. What a relief.

This cheatsheet is desinged to show how auto margins work with flexbox so that you don't fear to use them more often....

A comprehensive list of CSS features and their positions in the process of becoming implemented web standards.

There is a wide variety of choices when it comes to creating a PDF from a web application. In this article, Rachel Andrew takes a look at the tools that are available and shares her recommendations to help you find the tool that works best for you.

How to make print styles with CSS media queries to include a URL to a link in your site content when printed.

There may be times in which your web site or application would like to improve the user's experience when printing content. There are a number of possible scenarios:

Yep. Let's take a look at how to do it in different browsers. Although note the date of this blog post. This stuff tends to change over time, so if

This article will teach you everything you need to get started writing CSS for pages that are intended to be printed.

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A small collection of useful CSS techniques and a quick reminder that print style sheets are still a thing.

We have covered print stylesheets in the past here on Smashing Magazine. In this article, Rachel Andrew takes a look at the state of printing from the browser today.

How to style elements in the first and last rows of a balanced or unbalanced CSS grid using CSS selectors.

By combining `:nth-child` and `:nth-last-child` selectors, developers can select all elements in the last row of a flexible grid, even if that row is partially filled.

I recently wrote about some of the cases where you might want to use Grid instead of flexbox, and vice-versa. One of the scenarios I pointed…

This article shows you how to overlap images with CSS Grid and provides a fallback for IE and browsers that do not support CSS Grid.

As I frequently mention, every element in the document tree is a rectangular box. Broadly speaking, this "rectangular box" consists of two sections. First we have the actual box, which consists of the border, padding, and margin areas. Second, we have the contents of the box; the content

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I just need to put two boxes side-by-side and I hear flexbox is good at stuff like that. Just adding display: flex; to the parent element lays out the