Tutorial Rounded Corners

Standard:

-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px; /* future proofing */
-khtml-border-radius: 10px; /* for old Konqueror browsers */

Individual Corners:

-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 20px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 30px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 0;

-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 20px;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 30px;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 0;

Shorthand:

-moz-border-radius: [top-left] [top-right] [bottom-right] [bottom-left]

-moz-border-radius: 10px 20px 30px 0;

Elliptical Rounding (Firefox 3.5+):

-moz-border-radius-topleft: [horizontal radius] [vertical radius];

-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px 40px;

Elliptical Rounding Shorthand (Firefox 3.5+):

-moz-border-radius: [horizontal radius] / [vertical radius];

-moz-border-radius: 10px / 40px;

-moz-border-radius: 10px 20px 30px 40px / 15px 30px 45px 60px;

Above is the same as:

-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px 15px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 20px 30px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 30px 45px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 40px 60px;

WebKit Elliptical Rounding

All corners:

-webkit-border-radius: 36px 12px;

Right corners only:

-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 50px 30px; 
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 50px 30px;

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Tutorial Ribbon

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<h1 class="ribbon">
   <strong class="ribbon-content">Everybody loves ribbons</strong>
</h1>

.ribbon {
 font-size: 16px !important;
 /* This ribbon is based on a 16px font side and a 24px vertical rhythm. I've used em's to position each element for scalability. If you want to use a different font size you may have to play with the position of the ribbon elements */

 width: 50%;
    
 position: relative;
 background: #ba89b6;
 color: #fff;
 text-align: center;
 padding: 1em 2em; /* Adjust to suit */
 margin: 2em auto 3em; /* Based on 24px vertical rhythm. 48px bottom margin - normally 24 but the ribbon 'graphics' take up 24px themselves so we double it. */
}
.ribbon:before, .ribbon:after {
 content: "";
 position: absolute;
 display: block;
 bottom: -1em;
 border: 1.5em solid #986794;
 z-index: -1;
}
.ribbon:before {
 left: -2em;
 border-right-width: 1.5em;
 border-left-color: transparent;
}
.ribbon:after {
 right: -2em;
 border-left-width: 1.5em;
 border-right-color: transparent;
}
.ribbon .ribbon-content:before, .ribbon .ribbon-content:after {
 content: "";
 position: absolute;
 display: block;
 border-style: solid;
 border-color: #804f7c transparent transparent transparent;
 bottom: -1em;
}
.ribbon .ribbon-content:before {
 left: 0;
 border-width: 1em 0 0 1em;
}
.ribbon .ribbon-content:after {
 right: 0;
 border-width: 1em 1em 0 0;
}

Protector

This technique uses negative z-index values on some of the pseudo elements. That means that they can go behind other elements that have opaque backgrounds, which ruins the effect. To fix this, you'll need to make sure the immediate parent of the ribbons does not have a background applied and has relative postioning with positive z-index. Use an additional wrapper if needed.

<div class="non-semantic-protector"> 
   <!-- ribbons and other content in here -->
</div>

.non-semantic-protector { position: relative; z-index: 1; }

Example

Everybody loves ribbons

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Tutorial Reversing Text

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For right-to-left languages, you can swap the default left-to-right layout in most browsers simply through the dir attribute.

<body dir="rtl">
  text in right-to-left language
</body>

You can use that attribute on any text element, it doesn't have to be the body. Likewise, you can swap it with just CSS:

body {
  unicode-bidi:bidi-override;
  direction:rtl;
}

The following are "less practical" but still interesting:

/* Flip each letter backwards */
div {
  -webkit-transform:rotateY(180deg);
  -moz-transform:rotateY(180deg);
  -o-transform:rotateY(180deg);
  -ms-transform:rotateY(180deg);
  unicode-bidi:bidi-override;
  direction:rtl;
}

/* Entire text flipped around */
div {
  -webkit-transform:rotateY(180deg);
  -moz-transform:rotateY(180deg);
  -o-transform:rotateY(180deg);
  -ms-transform:rotateY(180deg);
}

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Tutorial Retina Display Media Query

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For including high-res graphics, but only for screens that can make use of them. "Retina" being "2x":

@media 
(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), 
(min-resolution: 192dpi) { 
    /* Retina-specific stuff here */
}

Or other highish-res:

/* 1.25 dpr */
@media 
(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), 
(min-resolution: 120dpi){ 
    /* Retina-specific stuff here */
}

/* 1.3 dpr */
@media 
(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.3), 
(min-resolution: 124.8dpi){ 
    /* Retina-specific stuff here */
}

/* 1.5 dpr */
@media 
(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5), 
(min-resolution: 144dpi){ 
    /* Retina-specific stuff here */
}

Old Stuff (don't use, keeping for posterity)

@media
only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),
only screen and (   min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2),
only screen and (     -o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1) { 
  
  /* Retina-specific stuff here */

}

This is more future proof...

@media
only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),
only screen and (   min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2),
only screen and (     -o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1),
only screen and (        min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),
only screen and (                min-resolution: 192dpi),
only screen and (                min-resolution: 2dppx) { 
  
  /* Retina-specific stuff here */

}

Notes:

The super weird min--moz-device-pixel-ratio is probably a bug, might wanna put in -moz-min-device-pixel-ratio also in case they fix it but leave it prefixed. Here's the spec on resolution units.

Example:

Let's say you had three major breakpoints in a design. This design also had a large background graphic and you wanted it looking it's best on any screen (retina or not) and not waste any bandwidth. You'd set up 6 media queries, one for each breakpoint and one for each one of those breakpoints on retina. Then you'd override the background image all the way down.

@media only screen and (min-width: 320px) {

  /* Small screen, non-retina */

}

@media
only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 320px),
only screen and (   min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 320px),
only screen and (     -o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1)    and (min-width: 320px),
only screen and (        min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 320px),
only screen and (                min-resolution: 192dpi) and (min-width: 320px),
only screen and (                min-resolution: 2dppx)  and (min-width: 320px) { 

  /* Small screen, retina, stuff to override above media query */

}

@media only screen and (min-width: 700px) {

  /* Medium screen, non-retina */

}

@media
only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 700px),
only screen and (   min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 700px),
only screen and (     -o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1)    and (min-width: 700px),
only screen and (        min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 700px),
only screen and (                min-resolution: 192dpi) and (min-width: 700px),
only screen and (                min-resolution: 2dppx)  and (min-width: 700px) { 

  /* Medium screen, retina, stuff to override above media query */

}

@media only screen and (min-width: 1300px) {

  /* Large screen, non-retina */

}

@media
only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 1300px),
only screen and (   min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 1300px),
only screen and (     -o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1)    and (min-width: 1300px),
only screen and (        min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 1300px),
only screen and (                min-resolution: 192dpi) and (min-width: 1300px),
only screen and (                min-resolution: 2dppx)  and (min-width: 1300px) { 

  /* Large screen, retina, stuff to override above media query */

}

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Tutorial Removing Dotted Outline

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a {
   outline: 0;
}

Be careful removing outline styles from links, as they are a usability feature. If you do, make sure to define clear focus styles.

If your problem is that the dotted outlines travel all the way to the left or right of the screen because they are floated, try setting the overflow to hidden.

Tutorial Remove Scrollbar from Textarea in IE

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By default all versions of IE have a scrollbar on textareas, even when they are empty.

No other browsers do this, so if you want to remove it so IE can visually match other browsers, just:

textarea { overflow: auto; }

The scrollbar will return (rightfully) when the text in the textarea expands beyond it's bounds.

Tutorial Remove Margins for First/Last Elements

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It can sometimes be desirable to remove the top or left margin from the first element in a container. Likewise, the right or bottom margin from the last element in a container. You can do this by manually applying classes to the HTML:

.first { margin-top: 0 !important; margin-left: 0 !important; }
.last { margin-bottom: 0 !important; margin-right: 0 !important; }

The "top"/"bottom" zeroing being useful with a vertical stack of elements, "left"/"right" zeroing being useful for horizontal rows (in general). But... this method is dependent on you adding classes to the HTML yourself. Pseudo-selectors can be a better less intrusive way to go:

* > :first-child { margin-top: 0 !important; margin-left: 0 !important; }
* > :last-child { margin-bottom: 0 !important; margin-right: 0 !important; }

You may want to replace the * with more specific selectors as per your needs.

"Every Third", etc.

Lets say you had a floated block of 9 elements, 3 by 3. It's very common that you might need to remove the right margin from the 3rd, 6th, and 9th items. The nth-child pseudo-selector might be able to help there:

* > :nth-child(3n+3) { margin-right: 0; }

The equation there, 3n+3, works like this:

(3x0)+3 = 3
(3x1)+3 = 6
(3x2)+3 = 9
etc.

jQuery

jQuery uses CSS3 selectors, which includes :first-child, :last-child, and :nth-child(). This means that in browsers with don't or don't fully support these selectors, they WILL work in jQuery, so you can substitute the CSS support with JavaScript support. For example:

$("* > :nth-child(3n+3)").css("margin-right", 0);

Browser support

:first-child and :last-child works in the latest release from all major browsers, but not in IE 6. :first-child is supported in IE 7+. :nth-child works in Safari 3+, Firefox 3.5+, and Chrome 1+, but still doesn't work in IE8.

Also see David Oliver's article.

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Tutorial Rounded Corners

Standard:

Individual Corners:

Shorthand:

Elliptical Rounding (Firefox 3.5+):

Elliptical Rounding Shorthand (Firefox 3.5+):

WebKit Elliptical Rounding

Tutorial Ribbon

Protector

Example

Tutorial Reversing Text

Tutorial Retina Display Media Query

Old Stuff (don't use, keeping for posterity)

Tutorial Removing Dotted Outline

Tutorial Remove Scrollbar from Textarea in IE

Tutorial Remove Margins for First/Last Elements

"Every Third", etc.

jQuery

Browser support