CSS3 is becoming more and more popular amongst web developers and dedicated amateur webpage builders. And if not before, now is the right time to pay some attention to CSS3. Even the mighty Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer 9) has finally, in their infinite grace, implemented a deeper support for HTML5 and CSS3.
Why you should care about this future standard? In the above video the CSS inventor Håkon Wium Lie (from Halden in Norway) gives you some answers – and he tells about the history of CSS and also describes some of the benefits with CSS3.
If you want to follow the progress of CSS3, then you could visit CSS3.Info – a site by a group of advanced CSS3 enthusiasts with the aim to become the biggest online resource covering CSS3. They have information in a more user friendly format than W3C provides.
In this article Cashrevelations has collected 13 educational, useful and user friendly online CSS3 tools that will make your coding a whole lot faster and easier – and motivate you to pay more attention to CSS3.
13 Useful Oline CSS3 Tools
1. CSS3.0 Maker
CSS Maker is a free and user friendly online tool to experiment with CSS properties and values and generate a simple stylesheet for your own site. This tool covers new elements like drop shadows, transitions, the increasingly popular @font-face and more.
2. CSS3 Generator
This online multi-tool by Randy Jensen generates cross-browser CSS3 snippets that you can use right away on your website. Apart from border radius, you can also get snippets for box shadow, text shadow, RGBA and more. You can preview the code in a sandbox.
3. CSS3 Sandbox – Cool Tools & Toys for Web Developers
A collection of tools by John Allsopp for web developers to help you analyze and debug your sites, play with CSS3 features and more. Included in this little collection are online tools for gradients, shadows, CSS transforms and CSS text stroke.
4. Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator by Alex Sirota is a free and user friendly online tool for web developers, and it provides a simple interface to generate gradients. You will need a recent version of Firefox, Chrome or Safari to use this tool.
5. Quick 3-Color CSS3 Gradient Generator
This easy to use online tool helps you to create 3-color CSS3 gradients. You simply start by entering three colors. When you have done that you will be presented three styles of gradients. Just copy and paste the code next to the style you like into your stylesheet.
6. CSS3 Gradient Generator
This online tool helps you create CSS gradient codes – it provides a simple graphical user interface for working with CSS webkit gradients, allowing a user preview real time what their gradient will look like and provide the code for the gradient.
7. CSS3 Playground – Online CSS Tool
This is a practical tool by Mike Plate to experiment and learn about new and popular CSS3 capabilities. The user interface is based on Dojo’s UI library Dijit, and provides you as a user an easy to use and pedagogical working space.
8. CSS Border Radius – Generator
This very easy to use online tool by Jacob Bijani helps you to create stylish and good looking curved corners (border-radius) for your web page. You just fill in (in the corners, where default is 0) how many pixels you wish the border radius to be.
9. CSS Corners – CSS3 Gradient
This is a simple online tool by Cgosborne that allows you to create some nice CSS3 corners and gradients (also CSS3) without even thinking about the current syntax. You can also see a little preview of the corners or gradients on the page.
10. CSS3 Please – The Cross Browser CSS3 Rule Generator
With this online tool you can generate and test CSS3 rules. You can edit the underlined values in the CSS file on the page, and you don’t need to worry about if the corresponding values match, that is all done automatically for you.
11. Button Maker
Button Maker is a CSS3 button code generator – the tool is actually a demo for a project by Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks, and you can download the source code. You can preview your button on the left, and customize it on the right control panel.
12. @Font-Face Generator
This free and easy to use online tool helps you to create your own @font-face Kits by uploading some attractive fonts you want to use. The usage of this tool is couldn’t be more simple – just click the “Add Fonts” button and download your fonts.
13. CSS2 And CSS3 Help Sheets – GoSquared
This resource by GoSquared is a visually appealing and well structured as well as practical CSS2 and CSS3 (new) overview. According to GoSquared, they have covered most of the basic options possible for the moment with CSS3.
The CSS tools are not in any particular rating order. What is a useful CSS tool, depends in the end on your specific needs. But in our opinion, these tools are quite useful.
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