CSS3 Preview Archives

News on improvements and new additions to the CSS3 Preview section on this site.

Liquid faux columns with background-size

Excerpt: Until the Advanced Layout and Grid Layout modules are implemented, we have to get by with the existing tricks of the trade. One of those is the use of faux columns, a background image which simulates equal-height columns. This is a good technique, but the drawback is that it only works with fixed-wi

Updates to css3.info

Excerpt: We're busy here at css3.info! Our interview with H&kon was cool of course, but then Opera 9.5 was released and we had to update and add quite a few pages... Because all these pages were still static html, that was quite a bit of work. Tonight I took the time to move all of them into WordPress, and a

Interview with Håkon Wium Lie [Part Two]

Excerpt: Here's the concluding part of our interview with Håkon (you can read the first part here). Name the top five CSS3 features you'd like all major browsers to support in their next major release. Here's some of my favorites: Backgrounds and borders Media queries Multi-column layout Selecto

CSS techniques I can’t wait to be rid of

Excerpt: I was reading Veerle's blog today; the excellent article A CSS styled table version 2, to be precise. All good, practical stuff, and well-presented as usual. But what stood out for me was the technique to stripe the table rows: either through classes, or Javascript. Of course, both of those are v

What is CSS2.2?

Excerpt: Since the idea of CSS2.2 was raised, there's been some discussion as to what it should encompass, who should be responsible for the spec, and what it should be called; here's what I think: First, it doesn't matter what it's called. Whether it's referred to as CSS2.2, CSS2.1+, CSS3 Interim, or wha