To start with this question, we first need to create a ‘loader’. Any animation that informs a user or visitor that a page is now loading and will take a few seconds to finish loading is referred to as a loader. The majority of the time, loaders come in handy when a website takes too long to retrieve the results. If a particular website doesn't have a CSS loader, the user will believe, it is not responding at all during the loading process. Therefore, adding a CSS loader to a webpage causes the user to become distracted or wait ... Read More

Let us try to understand the flex property. Flex is a shorthand property that sets the condition for length of flex element, whether it will be allowed to adjust itself based on the amount of content it has or the viewport width. Flex Properties The constituent properties of flex property are specified below − Flex-grow This property sets the space that will be assigned to the item out of all the space that is remaining in the flex-container. In other words, it sets whether the main size of the item will be allowed to grow beyond or not. The ... Read More

Before moving onto learning the way of using font-optical-sizing property, we will first be looking at the font-property in CSS and why is there a need for font-optical-sizing as a separate property. The styling of the text on the web page is controlled by the font property in CSS which is a shorthand for many other properties. It can be used to apply the system’s font to an element or set different values for other CSS properties. Font Property This property gets applied to all the elements and is inheritable by nature, meaning the font of the child ... Read More

A good website is always made up of a perfectly structured HTML document paired with a beautifully created design that grabs the user’s attention. This kind of website is what enhances the overall interactivity of the site making it more engaging. When applying styles to our webpages, we employ Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS for short. We can more easily make a website presentable by using CSS. It distinguishes between the HTML document's structure and the presentation, which refers to the elements that users see and interact with. As opposed to a plain and uninteresting appearing website that ... Read More

Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS in short, is used when we need to apply styles to our websites. The use of CSS makes it easier for us to make a website presentable. It separates the structure, which is made up of HTML document, from the presentation, which implies the part which the user sees and interacts with. Why do we need CSS for presentation Having a different and creative style has become a must have property for a website, as it makes the website fun to interact with, instead of a plain and dull looking website which can be made ... Read More

The method through which we can determine the device being used for surfing is by using what we call, “viewport” widths. In computer graphics, a viewport usually indicates the polygonal (often rectangular) area that is now being viewed by user. When we talk about viewports in a web browser, we usually mean a window on which the content is visible and outside of which the user cannot view the content. There are basically two types of viewports. The viewport that is fixed and onto which the browser draws the whole web page is called the layout viewport. ... Read More

Before moving onto the topic, let us try to understand the importance of cursor as an UI element. We know that the very first thing a user interacts with in a website is mostly the cursor, this is why manipulating the cursor style and effects is the most important for designing, as it greatly contributes to the overall user experience. The cursor property is used to set the mouse cursor to appear whenever we hover over an element by pointing over it. It is applied to all the elements and is inheritable, meaning the child element will also have the ... Read More

In order to answer the question: “How to set the table layout algorithm using CSS”, we need to understand what is ‘layout’. A layout in HTML specifies the fundamental organization and visual style of a website. It gives you the ability to build websites with basic HTML tags. Table Layout Table layout is one of the least advised HTML layouts due of its complexity. As its name suggests, it is based on the table> element. The table> element allows you to arrange data in rows and columns. The table> tag is a container tag, since it serves as ... Read More

Whenever we want to gradually change the style of an element from one form of styling to some another style, whether it may be some interaction from user or through duration of stay on the site. You can use animations to change a lot of styles for any duration of time. Let us look at the properties that you need for animations. Keyframes − This is used to specify an animation for an element. It contains the changes that will occur to the style of the element. The element then moves from the style at the beginning to ... Read More

As we already know that CSS provides us with a wide range of properties and pseudoclasses, which enables developers to add the desired styling to the element. One such property is box shadow property; it allows us to add a shadow like effect around the element. Box-shadow Property Box shadow is a CSS property used to create an outer or inner shadow effect on elements. It applies one or more shadows to the element, each of which is specified with X and Y offsets from the element, blur radius, spread radius, color and opacity value. The box-shadow property ... Read More