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.

PrintCSS/CSS Paged Media (PDF generation from XML and HTML using CSS stylesheets) tutorial and showcase with lessons, tool descriptions and comparions. PDFreactor Antennahouse PrinceXML

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

You’re probably already at least a little familiar with CSS variables. If not, here’s a two-second overview: they are really called custom properties, you

My name is Dan Davies, an experienced and highly skilled web designer and front-end developer from Flintshire, North Wales and currently working in Cheshire. Specialising in Web Design, WordPress, HTML, CSS3 and Sass, I build responsive websites that incorporate modern, clean code and am a big advocate of the content first approach. I have worked for some large digital agencies and with some very well known brands.

Here's what I'd like you to know upfront: this is a hard problem. If you've landed here because you're hoping to be pointed at a tool you can run that

CSS Grid is one of the most powerful tools available to developers. The simple module allows you to create entire website layouts, responsive galleries, and other cool effects. With enough creativity, you can do a lot of interesting things using …

CSS3 have made designing web more exciting with the introduction of new properties. While you might know of the popular ones, such as the box-shadow,

I recently needed to build a design for a contact list that looks like this: It consists of an email address and telephone number (with the…

The world of web development has always had a gap between the design-to-development handoff. Ambitious designers want the final result of their effort to

David Chanin has a quickie article summarizing a problem with setting an element's height to 100vh in mobile browsers and then also positioning something

Learn the benefits of prototyping web page layouts using CSS Grid Layout in this hands-on tutorial with Jeremy Osborn, Academic Director of Aquent Gymnasium.