Some HTML CSS Tricks You Want to Know

Set body font-size to 62.5% for Easier em Conversion

If you would like to use relative units (em) for your font sizes, declaring 62.5% for thefont-size property of the body will make it easier to convert px to em. By doing it this way, converting to em is a matter of dividing the px value by 10 (e.g. 24px = 2.4em).

body {   font-size: 62.5%; /* font-size 1em = 10px */ }
p {   font-size: 1.2em; /* 1.2em = 12px */ }

Remove outline for WebKit Browsers

When you focus (:focus) on an input element, perhaps you have noticed that Safari adds a blue border around it (and Chrome, a yellow one).

If you would like to remove this border outline, you can use the following style rule (this removes the outline from text fields):

input[type="text"]:focus {   outline: none; }

Please note that outline is used for accessibility purposes so that it is easier to see what input field is active. This is beneficial for those with motor impairments who cannot use a point-and-click device (such as a mouse), and thus must rely on alternative means of navigating a web page, such as the Tab key. The outline is also useful for able-bodied users who use keyboard shortcuts to get to web form input fields (it’s easier for them to see which input is currently active). Therefore, rather than completely taking out the outline, consider styling your input fields such that it indicates that it is the focused element.

Easy Web Fonts with Google Font API

Web fonts allow you to step outside of the normal web-safe fonts by taking advantage of CSS’s @font-face rule. However, right now, browsers aren’t uniform in its implementation of @font-face. More specifically, web browsers differ in the types of font files they support (hopefully this will change with the WOFF standards). Additionally, you must be careful with the fonts you use since some of them might not be licensed for web use.

To sidestep the issues with @font-face, the Google Font API is here to the rescue.

Here is an example of using the Cantarell font on

<h1> elements that takes advantage of Google Fonts API.

If you want to use the Cantarell font from Google Font API, first reference the remote stylesheet inside your tags as such:

<link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cantarell" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

To use the font in h1 elements, simply use the font-family CSS property.

h1 {   font-family: 'Cantarell', Arial, serif;  /* Use a font stack, just in case. */ }