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CSS Test Pages

Test of CSS properties

This page is very unfinished, just reorgnising the site into some order. There are further test in this directory.

CSS 3

Text-Shadow and box-shadow

Creating depth by using text-shadow and box-shadow (view with Safari 3).

Text-Shadow with depth

Similar to the above demo but with distinct layering (view with Safari 3).

Box-Shadow glow

Using text-shadow to emulate neon lights on a dark background (view with Safari 3).

Box-Shadow demo

Using box-shadow and borders to emulate depth with drop shadows (view with Safari 3).

Multiple Backgrounds

How to served up multiple backgrounds for supporting browsers and a one image for other browsers by the cascading order (view in Safari 3 and Opera 9.50).

Background Origin
Background Origin with Border Radius

Two linked test with examples of background-origin and the second test with aditional border radius. (view in Safari 3 and Firefox 3).

Using PNGs with 'background-size'

Create stunning backgrounds for page headers (view in Safari 3 and Opera 9.50).

CSS 2.1

CSS2.1 User Agent Style Sheet Defaults

A table showing all UA style sheet default properties and values for IE7, IE8, FF2, FF3, Opera 9.50 and Safari 3 and the non-normative UA style sheet default properties and values in Appendi 4 of the CSS 2.1 specifications.

Default margins on block elements

A test case showing default margins on block elements.

Positioning with z-index

Misunderstood and non standard across browsers the z-index using relative and absolute positioning is a web designer challenge.

Last Updated: 24th May 2008.

Honor Roll - Best

  1. Firefox 3.6.5 (beta)
  2. Safari 4.0
  3. Opera 10 (alpha)
  4. Firefox 3.0.14

Honor Roll

  1. IE 8/Win
  2. Opera 9.64
  3. Firefox 2
  4. Gecko 1.7
  5. IE 7/Win
  6. IE 5/Mac
  7. IE 6/Win (and earlier)

Template - Zeta

Last revised: 21st Oct 2009

Copyright © 2008 Alan Gresley

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