Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a fantastic tool to add layout to your websites. It can save you a lot of time and it enables you to design websites in a completely new way. CSS is a must for anyone working with web design.

Learn how to make a simple 2 column css/html layout. Graphics included and fully explained.

Learn about CSS floats and how they are used.

One of the many great possibilities in CSS is the use of shorthand properties. It lets you specify several properties by using only one. If you have started learning about CSS and started implementing it on your web pages, you'll immediately see the benefit of using shorthand CSS properties. It makes it even easier for you to apply style to your markup, and it will make your CSS code shorter.

Those of you who are list-happy HTML authors know you have the ability to change the bullets and numbers that create those lovely

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lists. But with HTML alone, you're pretty locked in once you make a decision to use numbers or to use a certain bullet. Well, not any more. CSS has really allowed Web page designers to be more free with what they have. Below, I have tried to lay out the opportunities provided by the CSS:

Learn to create an extending css equal column layout

We decided to create this script when we needed a compact CSS drop down menu for a project. Chrome Menu is a CSS and JavaScript hybrid drop down menu. It's easy to configure and search engine friendly. The menu links is based on a list, while the drop down menus are simply regular DIV tags on page. Thanks to JavaScript, the menu supports subtle but important effects such as delay before menu disappearance, and repositioning of the menu if too close to any one of the four corners of the window. The entire menu, including images and external files, is extremely compact, at around 6 kilobytes!

This is my first contribution to the CSS loving community. So, many of you have seen a blog. Many of you have seen comments and reviews on sites such as Netflix and Amazon. Most of these reviews, as in Amazon’s case or Movies, as in Neflix’s case come with a handy dandy rating. I’ve even seen the star rating system used at msn.com. Many of these solutions may use JavaScript or just have an individual hover state for a single star. The question I pose is…. Can you create a star rating using only CSS. I’m talking the kind that when you hover over the 4th star, there are four stars that show up on the hover state. Well, I’m glad you asked because that is just the question I intend to answer.

This is a great couple of ways to quickly use Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) commands. When I speak to people about CSS, the main thing I hear is the time the sheets save them. They've set up a series of formats for certain commands and without any extra work, the sheet takes care of the styles

Change the mouse point into a waiting glass over a link or speical arrows for some reason. You can also change the cursor with any image you want.