Ever since the announcement of in 2005, the development of the level 3 of Cascading Style Sheet or better known as CSS3 has been closely watched and monitored by many designers and developers. All of us excited to get our hands on the new features of CSS3 – the text shadows, borders with images, opacity, multiple backgrounds, etc, just to name a few.
As of today, not all selectors of CSS3 are fully supported yet. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun testing new CSS3 stuff. This post is dedicated to all designers and developers who are already familiar with CSS 2.1 and want to get your hands dirty on CSS3.0.
It’s a compilation of useful CSS3 reads, sample codes, tips, tutorials, cheat-sheets and more. Feel free to use them in your projects, just make sure it falls gracefully on incompatible browsers.
Getting Started with CSS3
An (roadmap) official introduction to CSS and CSS3. This document gives you an overall idea on the development of CSS3.
CSS3: Take design to next level
Advantages of CSS3, with explanations and examples of CSS3 properties and selectors.
Webmonkey brings you through several basic tricks in CSS3, including rounded borders, borders, drop shadows, image tricks and more.
Interview: Six questions with Eric Meyer on CSS3
Folks at Six Revision interviewed Eric Meyer with valuable insights and answers on CSS3.
How you can use graceful (or, progressive) enhancement techniques to make use of CSS3 features in browsers that support them, while ensuring that your code will still provide a satisfactory user experience in older browsers that do not yet support those features.
CSS3: Background and Borders
Rounded borders (border-radius)
A guide to creating rounded border with CSS3′s border-radius property.
Rounded borders with image (border-images)
How to use images in borders with border-image property.
CSS3 borders, backgrounds and boxes
Detail explanation with examples of new CSS3 properties like: background-clip, background-origin, background-attachment, box-shadow, box-decoration-break, border-radius and border-image.
CSS3: Text
Create simple letterpress effect with CSS3.
Six text effects using text shadow
Text effects include: vintage/retro, neon, inset, anaglyphic, fire and board game.
How to correctly add an embossed effect to any text depending on the colors used.
How to take basic markup and transform it into an attractive and beautiful typographical design through pure CSS3.
Uses an image sprite and a sprinkle of CSS to get things positioned right.
How to add an outline, or stroke, to your text using the CSS3 text-stroke property.
Interactive text masking effect using the text-shadow CSS property.
Link nudging (animation) with CSS3
Ditch Javascript and create nudge effect entirely with CSS3.
Change text selection styling with CSS3.
CSS3: Menu
Using CSS3 to create a set of columns on your website without having to assign individual layers and (or) paragraphs for each column.
How to use the evolving CSS standard can enhance some lovely cross-browser tooltips.
More tooltips:
CSS3 & jQuery Drop-Down Menu With Integrated Forms
jQuery and CSS3 powered navigation menu that supports integrated forms.
How to create a Apple.com alike multi-level dropdown menu using border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow.
Click on a tab, hide all the panels, show the one corresponding to tab just clicked on – all with CSS.
Create nice looking 3D ribbons with only CSS3.
CSS3: Drop shadow
Showcase several techniques and some of the possible appearances for dropping shadows without using images.
How to create intuitive and beautiful tabs in CSS3 with no image.
CSS3 boxes without using images
15 different styles of boxes without using images. Works in Chrome and Safari.
CSS3: Buttons
How to create beautiful cross-browser compliant CSS3 buttons that degrade gracefully.
How to create nice looking, dynamic buttons that are fully scaleable using the new CSS3 properties border-radius, box-shadow and RGBa.
Various forms of speech bubble effect created with CSS 2.1 and enhanced with CSS3.
CSS buttons that are sexy looking, really flexible, but with the most minimalistic markup as possible.
Collection of buttons that show what is possible using CSS3 while also maintaining the simplest possible markup.
Spinning, Fading Icons with CSS3 and MooTools
How to use CSS3 and MooTools to create dymanic, rotating elements.
CSS3: transparency and overlay
Create image transparency with CSS3.
Practical application of the CSS3 border-image property.
More
- CSS3 + Mootools. An example of experimentation in mootools. This adds CSS3 properties into core MooTools frame work.
- Exploding Logo with CSS3 and MooTools or jQuery. Take static image and make it an animated, exploding effect on mouse over.
- The Power of HTML 5 & CSS 3. HTML 5 and CSS 3 are quickly gaining popularity, Perishable Press is here to explain how and why.
- Spinning Rays with CSS3 Animations & JavaScript Example. Simple and subtle ray spinning effect at the back of an image.
- CSS3 Polaroid Photo Gallery. How to build a cool looking stack of Polaroid photos with pure CSS styling.
- HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using. A walktrough on building a blog from ground up with HTML5 and CSS3.
Cheatsheets & References
Printable cheatsheat with complete list of all properties, selector types and allows values in the current CSS3 specification from the W3C.
Complete list of the supported CSS selectors in Opera 0.5.
Fonts Available for @font-face Embedding
Comprehensive list of fonts currently licensed for @font-face embedding.
A guide and reference to CSS3 selectors and its patterns.
Cross-browser CSS3 Rule Generator
CSS3 rules you can copy and paste onto your own stylesheet.
Get CSS3 styles like boz sizing, border radious, text shadow, and more within a click.
CSS Content & Browser Compatibility
Complete list of selector tables of both CSS and CSS3 with declaration for browser-compatibility check.
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I am the creative director at IGRAPHI and an award winning designer and web developer with 20 years of experience conceiving and implementing design and technical solutions across traditional, digital, and social media platforms to effectively engage target audiences with clients’ messages and products. Built and managed brands from the ground up, worn every hat on the rack, one brand at a time.
