33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks
Since previous article about CSS text effects got really big attention I decided to research and find more interesting articles and websites just focused on CSS3, teaching you how to use it, showing pros and cons and much more and CSS level 3 has been under development since December 15, 2005. CSS3 is modularized and consists of several separate recommendations. CSS3 is one of the more exciting and versatile developments for the web in some time. In this article I am going to create a huge list of CSS3 Tips, Tricks and Tutorials for Web Developers. However since HTML5 is sort of tied with CSS3, I will soon continue with HTML5 article as well.
This article is big summary featuring the most useful CSS3 Tips,tricks and just great tools for learning! Enjoy!
4. A Look at Some of the New Selectors Introduced in CSS3
CSS3 Selectors allow designers and developers to implement designs much easier and quicker than before.
5. CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
This is 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.
1. Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3
In this article you’ll learn why CSS3 should be used and how web designers use it already in good way. Great article for getting you started with CSS3.
2. Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3
Here are five CSS3 techniques snatched from the future that you can put into practice in your website designs today.
3. Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA
Learn how to create super cool, scalable buttons with CSS3.
6. CSS3.Info
CSS3 is the new kid in the stylesheet family. It offers exciting new possibilities to create an impact with your designs, allows you to use more diverse style sheets for a variety of occasions and lots more.
8. Introduction to CSS3 – Part 1: What Is It?
These six part series are providing an introduction to the new CSS3 standard which is set to take over from CSS2 from DesignShack.
9. Accessibility Features of CSS from W3
This document summarizes the features of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), level 2 Recommendation ([CSS2]) known to directly affect the accessibility of Web documents.
7. Get Started with CSS 3
Beautiful CSS3 tutorial article explaining several new CSS3 features and giving solutions how to create them actually.
10. Progressive Enhancement with CSS 3: A better experience for modern browsers
In this article you will look at 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.
11. Conversation with CSS 3 team
In this article, xhtml.com interviews Bert Bos, chair of the CSS Working Group at W3C, about the next release of the CSS specification and how past design decisions are influencing the future of CSS.
12. Six Questions: Eric Meyer on CSS3
Great interview with Eric Meyer about CSS3.
13. The fundamental problems with CSS3
This article brings up several problems and issues with CSS3, interesting reading.
14. CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials
In this post you will take a look at some interesting properties of CSS3 that you can put into practice in your website designs today.
15. Old School Clock with CSS3 and jQuery
Transform Rotate
is a new feature of CSS 3 which lets you… well, rotate stuff. Transform will also allow you to scale, skew and translate (move) objects in your web page
16. The CSS3 border-radius property (Not Valid Anymore)
One of the CSS3 properties designers have been longing the most for is undoubtedly the border-radius property. With CSS3 border-radius property it’s possible to create the so popular rectangles with rounded corners exclusively via CSS – no images needed.

17. Get the best out of CSS3
Craig Grannell turns into a cross between Jeffrey Zeldman and Russell Grant, taking a peek at what the future of CSS has to offer – with a little help from Opera, Safari and Firefox
18. How To Create A Sexy Vertical Sliding Panel Using jQuery And CSS3
Horizontal sliding panels are great for many situations, but like everything else, they’re not always ideal. It depends on the project. To see what I mean by ‘horizontal sliding panel‘, & vertical sliding panel then go and take a look.
19. Rounded Corner Boxes the CSS3 Way
To create a CSS3 rounded corner box, simply start with your box element and apply your 4 corner images, separated by commas.
20. #57: Using CSS3 by Chris Coyier
This screencast covers many of CSS3 techniques now possible, focusing on the ones that can be used for progressive visual enhancement. Border radius, @font-face, animations/transitions, text-shadow, box-shadow, multiple backgrounds, RGBa, gradients, border image.
21. HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using
In this tutorial, your are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3.
22. 11 Classic CSS Techniques Made Simple with CSS3
In this tutorial from Nettuts you will learn eleven different time-consuming effects that can be achieved quite easily with CSS3.
23. CSS 3 selectors explained – Overview of CSS 3 selector syntax
The new selectors described in the document will be used by CSS level 3, but may also be used by other languages
27. CSS3 Background Images (Sizing & Multiple Imgs)
Background images / textures are being used and implemented in many ways, often adding the nicest of finishing touches to a website. It is now proposed that in CSS 3, we can apply background image dimensions as well as use multiple background images. Along with the +/- quick list of compatible browsers.
28. Overview of CSS3 Structural pseudo-classes
Well, in CSS3, that mission is bolstered by the addition of Structural pseudo-classes. These selectors let you select child elements of a parent based on a variety of generic criteria.
24. 3 Easy and Fast CSS Techniques for Faux Image Cropping
This article is a summary of a 3 fast and easy CSS techniques you can use to display only a portion of an image in your content
25. CSS3 Borders Preview
CSS3 takes borders to a new level with the ability to use gradients, rounded corners, shadows and border images. Mozila, Firefox and Safari 3 have implemented this function, which allows you to create round corners on box-items.
26. CSS3 property tests
This page has tests for a small subset of CSS3, chosen because these features are in part supported by at least one browser.
29. 5 CSS3 Techniques For Major Browsers using the Power of jQuery
This article presents 5 CSS3 techniques which can dramatically get you a stunning user interfaces and how to achieve almost the same effects using jQuery for browsers that are not compatible yet with CSS3 new features.
32. CSS: border-radius and -moz-border-radius
One of the most keenly-anticipated CSS3 properties is border-radius. Web designers will no longer have to resort to complex table structures using custom-made corner graphics or including arcane JavaScript files in order to produce designs with rounded corners.
33. Modernizr
While Modernizr gives you finer control over the experience through JavaScript-driven feature detection, it is important to continue to use best practices throughout your development process. Use progressive enhancement wherever you can, and don’t sacrifice accessibility for convenience or performance.
30. jSlickmenu: A jQuery plugin for slick CSS3 menus
The plugin called jSlickmenu, creates, well, slick menus with jQuery. Combined with some great CSS3 features likes rotation and shadows.
31. Multiple Backgrounds (CSS3)
CSS3 allows web designers to specify multiple background images for box elements, using nothing more than a simple comma-separated list.
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