If you are familiar with the basics of how to set up bulleted lists in HTML, and as you become comfortable with it, you might find yourself wanting to experiment a bit now and then. If you are not familiar...
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More Creative Ways to Style the HTML HR Tag
The HR or horizontal rule is one of the earliest tags or elements that make up the the World Wide Web’s main coding language of HTML — the Hypertext Markup Language, to be precise. The HR tag wasn’t part of...
June 25, 2022
How to Add a Border to an Image with HTML and CSS
A great way to spruce up images on a website or app is to add a border around them. Adding borders is a quick and easy way to draw attention to your images and make them stand out. In this...
April 23, 2022
CSS Padding vs CSS Margin: What’s the Difference?
When I was first learning HTML and CSS early in my career, this is one of the subjects that took a while to sink into my brain. I kept getting confused about when to use the CSS “margin” property versus...
February 26, 2022
CSS Animations: Creating CSS Hover Effects
Have you ever tried to animate an element, image, shape etc. and struggled with it because you’re not that into code? If you’ve ever tried animating something using JavaScript or jQuery and found that process a bit too cumbersome or...
September 25, 2021
Creative Ways to Style the HTML Details and Summary Elements
As we discussed in our last article How to Style the HTML Details and Summary Tags, the details tag (or “element”) can be used on its own, or combined with the summary tag. This combination of HTML tags is called...
April 10, 2021
How to Style the HTML Details and Summary Tags
HTML DETAILS TAGS are included in the relatively new group of HTML5 elements. The details tag (or “element”) can be used on its own, or combined with the also new summary tag. This HTML combination is called a disclosure widget,...
April 3, 2021
How to Show Internal Borders in HTML Tables
HTML tables are a relatively easy way to take a large amount of information and tabular data and display it in nice, neat rows and columns. Unfortunately, however, the use of tables in modern HTML is discouraged; tables are not...
December 19, 2020
Styling Text with CSS: Basic Effects
Using CSS to Style Text CSS coding is a source of endless fascination for me and offers me (and countless others) an avenue for creative expression. I really feel that being creative with code is a modern-day art form...
November 28, 2020
Styling Text with CSS: Advanced Effects
Using CSS to Style Text There is SO much you can do to dress up your blog articles, enhance your websites, draw attention to your article headings – and much more – by adding a bit of CSS code...
November 26, 2020
