* { box-sizing: border-box } FTW

One of my least favorite parts about layout with CSS is the relationship of width and padding. You’re busy defining widths to match your grid or general column proportions, then down the line you start to add in text, which necessitates defining padding for those boxes. And ‘lo and behold, you now are subtracting pixels from your original width so the box doesn’t expand. Ugh. If I say the width is 200px, gosh darn it, it’s gonna be a 200px wide box even if I have 20px of padding. Anyway, I have a recommendation for your CSS going forward: This gives you the box model you want. Browser support Due to browser support, this recommendation is only for projects that support IE8 and up. Is it safe to use? Totally. jQuery works pretty great with it (except this). One of my favorite use-cases that border-box solves well is columns. Performance Lastly on @miketaylr’s inquiry, I also tested perf overhead. You might get up in arms about the universal * selector. Apparently you’ve heard its slow.

CSS3 ordered list styles Styling ordered lists was always a tricky task and I'm not the only one who thinks that. To style numbers you need to remove default browser styles and add hooks to your lists elements in order to target them and style accordingly. In this article you'll learn how to add some CSS3 fine tuning to your ordered lists, using a semantic approach. The idea When I first read Roger Johansson's article about styling ordered list numbers, I must admit I seriously felt in love with that technique. View demo The HTML Below you'll find nothing than simple ordered list markup: <ol class="rounded-list"><li><a href="">List item</a></li><li><a href="">List item</a></li><li><a href="">List item</a><ol><li><a href="">List sub item</a></li><li><a href="">List sub item</a></li><li><a href="">List sub item</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="">List item</a></li><li><a href="">List item</a></li></ol> The CSS Further, I'll try to explain how this works in a few words. This technique uses Automatic counters and numbering.

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Musings on Preprocessing I've been using SASS for pretty much everything I do recently. Here's some musings on the journey. From hold-ups, to trip-ups, to turn-offs. You Gotta Work Locally The biggest contributor to me getting on the bandwagon was giving up my going-commando live FTP editing ways. Working local is full of obvious advantages. So just do it. If you are using something like Ruby or Python, well, chances are you know how to set up that stuff anyway so you're fine. Now that I'm working primarily on projects that run on my local machine, using preprocessors is easy. Command line blah blah blah I'm a designer! That's a very common thing to hear regarding SASS. Other turnoffs As childish as this may seem, another reason it took me so long to get on the preprocessor bandwagon was the crowd. Man, usually you even breathe about preprocessors and CSS and the LESS/SASS folks dogpile you at greyhound speed.— Eric A. For a long time I thought: I write CSS everyday. The Apps I only have experience with Mac apps.