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By Jeff Cohan, September 16, 2015

CSS Descendant Selectors

CSS Descendant Selectors

CSS descendant selectors (also known as contextual selectors) allow you to write lean, clean, semantic html and CSS markup with a minimum number of class and ID names, making your code easier to understand and maintain, and maybe even giving you a sense of harmonious calm. In this article, I explain this claim with an example.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Techniques · Tagged: CSS

By Jeff Cohan, July 27, 2015

How to Create Tooltips with CSS (Only)

CSS is so big that unless we work with it diligently on a day-to-day basis — and live long enough, we’re likely to be dealing with just the tip of the iceberg. In this article, I show a simple technique for creating tooltips with nothing more than CSS (no JavaScript). Hat-tip to Travis Neilson, whose DevTips YouTube channel is very informative and a real hoot.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Snippets · Tagged: CSS

By Jeff Cohan, May 9, 2014

Underlining for Emphasis: How to un-underline text on a Web page with CSS

No matter how loudly and often we tell our clients who maintain their own Web sites (via WordPress and other CMS-driven platforms) that using underlining for emphasis on the Web is a very bad idea, many of them do it anyway. This article explains, first of all, why this practice is a bad idea, and then it offers a simple CSS solution for removing underlines that shouldn’t appear on Web pages.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Techniques · Tagged: CSS, HTML, WordPress

By Jeff Cohan, June 17, 2013

Fun with CSS3 Multiple Backgrounds

CSS3 supports multiple backgrounds for an element. There are lots of resources on the Web that tell you how to do it. It’s actually remarkably easy and intuitive. And most modern browsers support multiple CSS backgrounds.

What I want to do here is show you why and when you might want to try this.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Snippets · Tagged: Background Images, CSS

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