Contextual selectors allow the developer to select different types of styles for different parts of the document. In CSS, the developer can either specify styles directly or by making certain classes. The contextual selector will only apply the style to the elements which are specified. A parent-child relationship between elements in the document can be known as context. The contextual selectors will have 2 or more than 2 selectors which are separated. In this article, we are going to have a look at what is a contextual selector in CSS and how can we use it. What is contextual selector ... Read More

There is a possibility that the content that we are going to use in our website may be huge and may take a lot of space which means that the other elements of the website might get displaced which can hamper the responsiveness of the website. To avoid such incidence, the user needs to be given scrollable content so that if the user is interested he or she might scroll down to read the whole content. In this article, we are going to have a look at how we can make a div vertically scrollable and what is the property ... Read More

While browsing through the internet a user might find the need to capture something in order to present or to show to someone, but sometimes there might be sensitive information on a webpage which the developer might not want the user to screenshot it. The user can press the function key along with windows key and space bar to take a screen shot. In MacOS we would have to use the command and shift and 3 for taking a screenshot. In this article, we are going to have a look at how can we prevent the user from taking a ... Read More

You might have come across websites in which you might have seen an image or a video being played in a silhouette. A silhouette can be an image, an object, person or an animal which is represented in black color and it makes the outline of the subject. We can insert any image or video in the silhouette so the video or the image is going to be shown in the color of the silhouette In this article, we are going to have a look at how we can place an image or a video in silhouette. How to place ... Read More

The caret is also known as the text cursor which acts as an indicator that displays on the screen and indicates where the text input will begin from. This helps the user to look at where he is adding the text. There are many user interfaces that will represent the caret like a thin vertical line or a box which will flash and it varies from browser to browser and interface to interface. In this article, we are going to have a look at how we can hide the insertion caret in a webpage using CSS? How to hide the ... Read More

We can do animations using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript all together and can implement these on the webpage or the website. CSS provides lots of properties that we can use to create an animation which is why it is advised to use CSS for styling as it holds a lot of power for the front-end development. In this article, we will be creating a heart which changes its color every 3 seconds using CSS and it will be done in two steps using some animations. Steps to create the rainbow heart We will create two different divisions for the body, ... Read More

We can place a layer over an element so that we hide the element either partially or completely. The mask-image property is a CSS property which specifies layer on the element and it can also be an image but we would have to use the address of the image to add a mask on that image. In this article, we will have a look at adding a mask to an image using CSS properties and what we can do more with the same property. Adding mask to an image The mask-image property is the property that we will be going ... Read More

Developers want the HTML elements to look the same on every browser, though it depends, as the functionality of each browser differ. When the browser render a HTML page, it will apply its own default styles. Styles like the heading tag with different sizes and fonts depending on the type of browser. Which means that the headings can have margins or extra padding without you even writing the code. In this tutorial, we are going to have a look at how we can reset and normalize CSS and what is the difference between them. Difference between normalizing and resetting? While ... Read More

You might have come across a situation when several div elements are together and are next to each other with the property as display: table-cell and there is no margin between them. If you want to set a margin between them, you will need to add margin by adding margin externally. In this article, we are going to have a look why does the display: table--row ignores margin and how can we add margin if we want to add it. How to add the margin to the table? You might be thinking if we add margin externally in the table-row ... Read More

CSS is widely known as the cascading style sheets and is used to style the elements which are created using the HTML tags and is responsible for the look and feel of the webpage. We can use CSS to change the color of the text, change the background, add any image or give space between texts. We can create many ways to display a single piece of content. In this article, we are going to explain the ease of maintenance with CSS and what are the benefits of the CSS. Advantages of CSS Following are the advantages of using CSS ... Read More