40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials

In this post we present 40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials that can strongly improve user experience, improve designer’s work-flow and replace dirty old workarounds that we used in Internet Explorer 6 & Co. Please notice that most techniques and tutorials presented below are experimental, and its good to have place at one post.

Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials

Introduction to CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
This article marks the first of several, providing an introduction to the new CSS3 standard which is set to take over from CSS2. We will be starting from the very beginning – taking you from not having even heard of CSS3, to feeling ready to hit it running as various features start to become more widely adopted.

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Create a Dynamic Stack of Index Cards

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
This article we’re going to take a step into that direction and discover some of the possibilities CSS3 gives us.

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Awesome Overlays

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
These overlays use a number of new CSS properties, some of which are simple like border-radius and using RGBa colors. The trick with these overlays is the gradient border, going form a lighter to darker orange as you go from top to bottom. To create that effect we used to the border-image property, which is a tricky little addition to CSS.

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CSS3 & Flexible UI: Avoid Recutting UI Graphics for Mobile

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
Designing UI elements for a mobile browser has taught me a great deal when it comes to creating interactive graphical elements that are to be used in a very small space.

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How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
In one of our tutorials we learned how to realize a nice 3D ribbon and how to play with the drop shadow in Photoshop to simulate depth in a web design layout. This is a widespread trends in recent web design: creating a 3D perception in a website and simulating a “world” in three dimensions are two great ways for the designers to play with their skills.

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How To Create A Sexy Vertical Sliding Panel Using jQuery And CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
More and more we see people using horizontal sliding panels on their websites. And they usually look very nice! Some will put a contact or login form in there, others will put some information about them and their website, or even things like a tag cloud or social networking buttons.

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Create a Beautiful Looking Custom Dialog Box With jQuery and CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
This custom dialog box is one of the scripts in that website and I think it will be quite useful for all of us. The reason I have this custom dialog box is to overcome the inconsistencies across different browsers. It uses CSS3 to style everything and it looks really nice!

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CSS3 Hover Tabs without JavaScript

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
With the new techniques in CSS3 and clever applications of existing CSS it is increasingly stepping on the toes of JavaScript. Which to be honest isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

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Shadows and CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
Currently working on a design that uses text-shadow and box-shadow, with RGBA in place to create the shadow color. I wanted to tweet about this technique because it’s simple and awesome, but to my surprise I couldn’t find a good, quick tutorial that covered the use of both text and box-shadow, along with RGBA

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Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
One of our favorite things about CSS3 is the addition of RGBA, a color mode that adds alpha-blending to your favorite CSS properties. We’ve kicked the tires on it a bit with our own projects and have found that it helps streamline our CSS and makes scaling things like buttons very easy.

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Working With RGBA Colour

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
When we launched, a lot of people were surprised that the design wasn’t built with PNGs. Instead we’d used RGBA colour values, which is part of the CSS3 specification.

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How To Create a Pure CSS Polaroid Photo Gallery

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
Magical things can be done by combining various CSS properties, especially when some of the new CSS3 tricks are thrown into the mix. Let’s take a look at building a cool looking stack of Polaroid photos with pure CSS styling.

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Using Rounded Corners with CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
As CSS3 gets closer to becoming the new standard for mainstream design, the days of rounded corners through elaborate background images is fading.

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11 Classic CSS Techniques Made Simple with CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
As CSS3 gets closer to becoming the new standard for mainstream design, the days of rounded corners through elaborate background images is fading.

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Cool Sprites – Free overlapped CSS menu using CSS Sprites

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
In short, the fewer files the web browser has to fetch that much faster the site loads. It’s as simple as that.

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Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
Here are five techniques snatched from the future that you can put into practice in your website designs today.

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CSS 3 selectors explained

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
In this article, the specification I am referring to is the Selectors W3C Working Draft 15 December 2005. The new selectors described in the document will be used by CSS level 3, but may also be used by other languages. If you are reading this article months, or even years after that date it may be worth checking if a more recent version is available.

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@font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
All Hallows’ Eve seems the perfect time for something a little spooky. Getting @font-face working in IE may just be spooky enough. As you probably know @font-face already works in Safari 3 via WebKit and is supported in the latest Firefox 3.1 beta.

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Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
In this article, we’ll look at the advantages of CSS3 and some examples of how Web designers are already using it. By the end, we’ll know a bit of what to expect from CSS3 and how we can use its new features in our projects.

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CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
In this post we present a printable CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF), a complete listing of all the properties, selectors types and allowed values in the current CSS 3 specification from the W3C.

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The fundamental problems with CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
This post brings to a head a lot of my thoughts and feelings with regard to CSS3 and the way the W3C is developing it.

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CSS 3D Meninas

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
I’ve took the classic paint The Maids of Honour (Las Meninas) and made this CSS pseudo-3D/parallax effect. It is pure CSS, so no javascript or flash involved: only CSS and HTML code.

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HTML5 Reset Stylesheet

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
We’ve had a number of people ask about templates, boilerplates, and styling for HTML 5. Last week, Remy introduced some basic boilerplates for HTML 5, so to keep the momentum going, I’ve modified Eric Meyer’s CSS reset for you to use in your HTML 5 projects.

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Create a Letterpress Effect with CSS Text-Shadow

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
The letterpress effect is becoming hugely popular in web design, and with a couple of modern browsers now showing support for the text-shadow CSS3 property it’s now simple and easy to create the effect with pure CSS. No Photoshop trickery here!

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CSS Animations

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials

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Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
In this second article we’re going to focus on using those CSS techniques (and a little JavaScript) to create some practical elements and layouts. As before, caveat coder — a lot of the CSS properties we’re going to use have limited support, if any, in IE6/7 and probably 8.

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CSS3 Techniques You Should Know

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
If you aren’t aware of the browser extensions, these are CSS styles with a vendor specific prefix. Since CSS3 is not fully supported yet, we must use these extensions.

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30 Essential CSS3 Resources

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
Web designers around the world are extremely excited about the power of CSS3 and the creative freedom it offers. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up 29 resources for you to learn more.

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5 Techniques to Acquaint You With CSS 3

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
CSS is a well-known, widely used language to style websites. With version three in the works, many time-saving features will be implemented. Although only the most modern browsers currently support these effects, it’s still fun to see what’s around the corner! In this tutorial I’ll show you five techniques.

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Quicksand

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
I love Mac apps, especially for their attention to detail. CoreAnimation makes it so easy to create useful and eye-pleasing effects, like the one in this video. Quicksand aims at providing a similar experience for users on the web.

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Awesome CSS3 & jQuery Slide Out Button

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
The button consists of three parts: a container, the little button and the longer button. The two inner parts have absolute positioning. With jQuery, we enlarge the long button and change the colors of the small one.

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Making a Mosaic Slideshow With jQuery & CSS

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
We are making a jQuery & CSS mosaic gallery. Mosaic, because it will feature an interesting tile transition effect when moving from one slide to another.

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HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them.

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CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thing

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
CSS is ten years old this year. Such an anniversary is an opportunity to revisit the past and chart the future.

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You Can Use CSS3 Right Now

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
CSS3 makes a designer’s work easier because they’re able to spend less time hacking their CSS and HTML code to work in IE and more time crafting their design. It is the future of web design and can be used today.

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47 Amazing CSS3 Animation Demos

40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials
Here is a compilation of 47 jaw-dropping CSS3 animation demos. They demonstrate the possibilities of the CSS3 transform and transition property.

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14 Comments on "40 Brilliant CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials"

  1. Hey nice collection of Css Techniques & tutorial
    I like
    1.]Create a Dynamic Stack of Index Cards
    2.]How To Create a Pure CSS Polaroid Photo Gallery
    3.]Cool Sprites – Free overlapped CSS menu using CSS Sprites

    Thanks for Sharing…

  2. hey…. Excellent tutorial i will try to do this in my site latter on .Some of them i like most…

  3. i like “3D Ribbons” its quite nice…

    Thanks wajid

  4. Tech Blog says:

    Great list of tutorials

    thanks for sharing

  5. Suhanto says:

    CSS 3D Meninas was cool

  6. This is an excellent collection of tutorials. Thanks!

  7. cinnisa says:

    very well packed collection you have here. i would try some.
    thanks.

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