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It’s easy to center-align a bunch of text:

[code lang=”html” title=”HTML”]
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</p>
[/code]

[code lang=”css” title=”CSS”]
p {text-align:center;}
[/code]

But how do you center-align a list such as a ul or an ol with children set as inline (or side by side)?

Simply set the parent (ul) to text-align:center and the children (li) to display:inline-block

[code lang=”html” title=”HTML”]
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
[/code]

[code lang=”css” title=”CSS”]
ul {
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
text-align:center;
}

li {display:inline-block;}
[/code]

This is useful for footer links displayed in mobile browsers wherein you want texts to center-align.

See a demo at CSSDesk

…you’re translating all the features and functions of all software combined into styles and you’re making the browser a mashup of those software.

One day, Photoshop will have an “export to HTML and CSS” function wherein the lens flare filter I dearly love would be a bunch of vector shapes rendered by the browser.

And whenever I see the need to make the lens flare in my image more awesome, I could easily tweak it:

[code lang=”css” title=”CSS”]
img {
lens-flare-type:35mm-prime;
lens-flare-brightness:100%;
}
[/code]

By then, writing the stylesheet might become as easy as spelling my name in binary code due to its vast properties and values.

Then we’ll be back to GUIs again.

Sounds like booger? Nope, it’s what’s been brewing in browsers and hopefully it becomes a standard. The basic syntax is:

[code lang=”css” title=”CSS”]
div {position:sticky;}
[/code]

We already have position:fixed and it sticks!

Well, if you’re familiar with the CSS propety-value position:fixed, it fixes the position of an element relative to the viewport (and not its parent element)–so that when you scroll the screen, the element stays where you tell it to. That’s one of its caveats: it escapes any parent and becomes relative to the viewport or in other words, it escapes the layout.

position:fixed sticks but we don’t have much control over it like if we want the element to be contained to its parent element. On the other hand, position:sticky is more like position:absolute (the power of being relative to its parent) + position:fixed (the power to stay where you tell it to).

What’s more to sticky?

The proposal is that you could define its top, right, bottom, and left values to be detected relative to the viewport–and this is the time when sticky will be activated. For example:

[code lang=”css” title=”CSS”]
div {
position:sticky;
top:10px;
}
[/code]

Wherever this div is located, when you scroll the screen and this element is exactly 10px from the top of your viewport, it will become sticky so that when you scroll farther away, that element stays in your view (you can do this to position:fixed but with the help of JS for the activation part).

One last thing, I propose it be named, stick as in, position:stick.

Whether you have an unreadable stylesheet or you want to minify/compress it for optimization purposes, Client-side CSS (De)Compressor is your friend.

Update: since the previous tool doesn’t exist anymore, here’s another tool to unminify your CSS:

• http://mrcoles.com/blog/css-unminify/
• http://minify.avivo.si/#results

One way to set the height of an element to 100% is to absoultely-position it yet you needed a max-width for it to follow (instead of a simple width) for layout reponse purposes.

The solution is to simply set its width to 100% and set the max-width to your desired value. For example:

[code lang=”css” title=”CSS”]
div {
position:absolute;
width:100%;
max-width:1280px;
height:100%;
background-color:red;
}
[/code]