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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.

In this article, Rachel Andrew looks at some common layout patterns that we can’t yet do on the web and the CSS Specifications that might let us achieve them in the future.

If you mention printing with CSS to many people who work on the web, [print style sheets](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/03/08/tips-and-tricks-for-print-style-sheets/) are the use that comes to mind. We are all well used to creating a style sheet that is called upon when a web document is printed. These style sheets ensure that the print version is legible and that we don’t cause a user to print out huge images.

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This post has two separate but related things going on. One is an example of one of my responsive tables with ARIA added, and the other is the Twitter conversation that started this along with some generalized responses. Responsive Table with Semantics Retained by ARIA The Tweet What You Can…

Learn how to easily implement responsive table layouts with only CSS

I accidentally became Cloud Four’s resident expert on dynamic circular containing elements. Here are my tips and tricks.

CSS Grid changes how we can think about document structures Anyone who has even dabbled a little in creating websites knows that s are an essential building block for controlling our layouts. HTML5 introduced new semantic elements to help, and while they are a fantastic addition to the language, they’re a little bit like the garnish on our soup. With grid, we no longer have to rely on s to create the structure of our page, or even a more complex component. The structure is lit

Learn how to define baseline grids, column grids, spacing and layouts.

Some of the most fundamental concepts which control how CSS is applied to HTML and how conflicts are resolved