What is it?

IE-CSS3 is a script to provide Internet Explorer support for some new styles available in the upcoming CSS3 standard.
How it works

If you're viewing this page in Internet Explorer, some of the elements have been rebuilt by the script in Vector Markup Language (VML), an IE-specific vector drawing language. VML supports things that are missing from IE's CSS implementation like rounded corners and blur effects.

As we have seen during these past few months, CSS3 and HTML5 have demonstrated that designing is now possible without using graphic programs and relying entirely on code. On today’s tutorial we will show you how to make the fascinating set of frame boxes featured in ThemeShock using pure CSS3 and achieve in the process something that can easily look as any Photoshop work. It’s important to state that these boxes look flawless in Safari and quite great in Chrome, so we suggest you to use either one of these browsers to check them out, now let’s begin this tutorial.

With more than 15 different styles, this exercise truly demonstrates the power of CSS3 combined to a little bit of imagination. Now we’re going to show you the specific code that was utilized to create each one of these fancy frame boxes.

Welcome to the MediaLoot HTML5 compendium! The purpose of this page is to be a consistently updated reference for web designers and developers who want to start using the new features of HTML5.

Let’s face it, it’s difficult to keep up with all the new changes to the language, and there’s a lot of pressure for designers to start using HTML5 and CSS3 too — both of which can be overwhelming at first.

The W3C specs for HTML5 and CSS3 are also incredibly long and practically unreadable, not to mention unfinished - so it’s easy to see why a lot of designers choose to hold off on taking the effort to learn the new languages, however it’s really not that hard to start using both languages today, there doesn’t need to be a lot of pressure either because the beauty of adopting early is that you can work your way into it slowly and the only thing you actually need to know if you’re already using XHTML/HTML4 and CSS2 is what’s new and how can it benefit you.

Today, we selected our Collection of CSS3 Tools for your Next Web Development. Let us know what you think about our collection and feel free to comment below.

They use no images, just CSS3 fancies. Like a good little designer always does, they fall back to totally acceptable experience. Here's what they look like in Opera 11 which supports some of the CSS3 used here but not all.

Using CSS3 to produce an expanding menu animation with slide down sub menus.

Each section will expand to reveal the full width image on hover. The unhovered panels with shrink to keep the overall width of the menu the same.The hovered panel menu will expand vertically to reveal descriptive text which can contain any information you want with links possible.

Tested in IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. It should also work in Mac browsers. IE7, IE8, IE9 and Firefox 3.x will see an instant change of image sizing and sub menus.

One of the more popular and simple effects I've featured on this blog over the past year has been linking nudging. I've created this effect with three flavors of JavaScript: MooTools, jQuery, and even the Dojo Toolkit. Luckily CSS3 (almost) allows us to ditch JavaScript entirely to create the link nudge effect!

PIE makes Internet Explorer 6-8 capable of rendering several of the most useful CSS3 decoration features.

CSS3 throws its full weight behind text shadows, which as the name suggests, lets you add shadows to regular text on the page. And with support for multiple shadows simultaneously applied to the same text, CSS text shadows can produce some stunning textual effects without images.

Last week I debuted a popular blog post titled Create Spinning, Fading Icons with CSS3 and MooTools. The post detailed how you could leverage CSS3's transformations and opacity properties, as well as the magical MooTools JavaScript framework, to create spinning, fading, animated icons. Due to popular request, I've duplicated the effect with another popular JavaScript toolkit: jQuery.

Is there a time that you would like to have a refresher course or suddenly forget about that thing ? If yes, then you need some handy CSS cheat sheets. Post it on your web notes, bookmark it, or a sticky note to have a instant guide for your CSS. CSS or Cascading Style Sheet really help designers to customize their website conforming on the different browsers.

In this post, I’ll be featuring CSS cheat sheets for designers that will be helpful for you.

FontSquirrel is not only a great source to find high-quality free fonts but also awesome in so many other ways. One of them is its feature of providing @font-face kits for free. FontSquirrel has a huge amount of ready made kits which can be downloaded in matter of seconds and used anywhere you want. If you own some commercial fonts and wanted to use them in your website via @font-face, then FontSquirrel come into play with their @font-face kit generator. Overall it is best source for all your @font-face needs. Today we have collected 35 css3 @font-face kits from FontSquirrel which can be download and used for free. Enjoy.

The CSS3 text-shadow property has been around for some time now and is commonly used to recreate Photoshop’s Drop Shadow type shading to add subtle shadows which help add depth, dimension and to lift an element from the page. This isn’t all the text-shadow property is capable of though, by getting creative and playing around with the colours, offset and blurring we can create some clever and pretty cool text effects!

Lets be honest, CSS would typically not be the first technology you would go to for building a visually effective interactive graph or chart, certainly not without at least a touch of Javascript. There are quite a few technologies you would think, Flash comes to mind first, followed by Javascript (thousands of jQuery plugins), you may even go for an SVG chart, or you may even like to use a graphic editor with interactive capabilities like Fireworks or Photoshop.

Having said all that, creating a pure CSS chart that is both visually beautiful and highly interactive, especially with CSS3, is very much possible, as this round-up proves.

These fancy looking buttons brings together CSS3's border-radius, box-shadow, and linear gradients to create glossy looking menu buttons that use NO images. They consist of just a regular UL list that can easily be left, centered, or right aligned. Visually these buttons look best in FF3.5+, Chrome, and Safari 4+, while in other browsers, they still look presentable enough.

CSS3 gradients are available to use in Webkit (Safari, Chrome) and Mozilla (Firefox) browsers. They’re not exactly new but I only recently started using them consistently myself so I’ve put together this quick article.

FYI this isn’t the holy grail of CSS3 gradients, it’s more of a reminder for me or quick getting started guide.

Despite being an emerging technique still unsupported by some browsers, CSS3 gained a huge attention from designers and web developers in the last 6 months. In fact, CSS3 brings to life countless new possibilities to make even better websites. In this article, I have compiled a list of the best 10+ tutorials to make extremely gorgeous buttons using CSS3

There was a goal: Create CSS buttons that are sexy looking, really flexible, but with the most minimalistic markup as possible.

And voila.. here they are, the BonBon Buttons. Named after the French word for "Candy". So, let's take a tour trough the candy store.

CSS3 is one of the coolest new web technologies available to web developers right now. Using some of its many features, it is possible to reproduce the effects that you might have previously done in Photoshop, with CSS code that is more maintainable, faster to load, and hip with the latest trends. Read on to learn about the power tools available to you and how to combine them to produce the ultimate graphical effects.