10 Amazing CSS Techniques You Should Know

Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) is one of the building blocks of modern web design without which websites would have been ugly just like they were a decade ago. With time, the quality of CSS tutorials out there on the web has increased considerably. Here are 10 amazing CSS Techniques that you might not have thought could be done by CSS.

1. Cross Browser CSS SlideShow

Amazing demonstration of how to create a cross browser image gallery  using just CSS.

2. CSS Based Image Maps

This tutorial demonstrates a crazy way to create an image map using just CSS.

3. No JavaScript LightBox Using CSS

Create a lighbox using just CSS with no JavaScript required.

4. Image Replacement for Buttons

Replace the submit buttons with images using CSS, degrades back to submit button if CSS is disabled.

5. Animated Navigation Menu using CSS

Amazing tutorial on how to create an animated navigation menu using just CSS.

6. Tree Like Navigation Using CSS

Create a tree like navigation from nested lists of links. Very useful for creating sitemaps.

7. CSS Gradient Text Effect

Create eye-catching titles with nice gradient effect using just CSS.

8. CSS Menu List Design

Very easy to understand tutorial on how to create a menu list using either CSS border-style or background-image property.

9. Creating Liquid Layouts With Negative Margins

Amazing way to create a liquid layout using negative margins

10. Making Your Footer Stay Put With CSS

This might occur to you some time when a content page has not enough content to fill the page, so footer also moves up due to this. This tutorial shows you how to deal with this and make footer stay at bottom even when content is not enough.