14. Enhancements and Effects with CSS

In This Chapter

Browser Compatibility, Progressive Enhancement, and Polyfills

Understanding Vendor Prefixes

Rounding the Corners of Elements

Adding Drop Shadows to Text

Adding Drop Shadows to Elements

Applying Multiple Backgrounds

Using Gradient Backgrounds

Setting the Opacity of Elements

Effects with Generated Content

Combining Images with Sprites

One of the challenges faced by website authors until a few years ago was the limited number of options for producing rich designs using CSS. In most cases, it meant using additional HTML and CSS and a lot of images. Combined, this resulted in pages that were more complicated, took longer to download and display in the browser, and were simply more fragile and ...

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