Latest CSS and CSS3 Tutorials for Developers

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) can be considered as a backbone of web design, as it plays vital role while developing dynamic features enriched web applications. Primarily, CSS is designed to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design).

CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.

In this article we have gathered 20 of the best CSS & CSS3 tutorials depicting various methods by which one can substitute JavaScript (which weighs down site load time) with CSS and achieve the same results without the end user being able to differentiate whether it is JavaScript or CSS rendering the same effect.

The potential use of CSS & CSS3 is limitless and only bound to ones imagination, and the tutorials provided below depict just that : The Magic of CSS !

1. Automatic Figure Numbering with CSS Counters

 
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2. Putting CSS Clip to Work : Expanding Overlay Effect

 
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3. How to Create a Simple Multi-Item Slider

 
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4. Understanding the CSS Clip Property

 
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5. Create a Retro Navigation Menu with CSS3

 
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6. Create an E-Commerce Web Element with CSS3

 
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7. Creative CSS Loading Animations

 
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8. How to Create Custom Social Media Icons in CSS3

 
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9. Colorful CSS3 Animated Navigation Menu

 
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10. Animated CSS3 Photo Stack

 
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11. Live Album Previews with CSS3 and jQuery

 
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12. CSS Click Events

 
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13. Responsive CSS Timeline with 3D Effect

 
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14. How to Make a Mac OSX-like Animated Folder with CSS3

 
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15. How to Create a CSS3 Mega Drop Down Menu

 
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16. How to Create a CSS3 Login Form

 
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17. Circle Hover Effects with CSS Transitions

 
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18. 3D Flipping Circle with CSS3 and jQuery

 
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19. Image Accordion with CSS3

 
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20. Making an Impressive Product Showcase with CSS3

 
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