New CSS in Firefox 3

Visit: New CSS Features in Firefox 3

David Baron, a Mozilla developer, has a write-up on the new CSS features that are available in Firefox 3. There’s a mix of additions – everything from CSS 2.0 and 2.1 features to new additions that are tracking CSS 3.

Some of my favorite additions include:

The CSS 3 Box Specification (in the form of -moz-max-content, -moz-min-content, -moz-fit-content, and -moz-available values to width, min-width, and max-width).

-moz-fit-content actually does let authors do some things that previously weren’t possible without tables, such as putting a background on headings that doesn’t fill the whole width of the container unless the heading does, but is a single rectangle if the heading breaks to multiple lines (see Demo).

Wrapped whitespace (white-space: pre-wrap). This allows you to have a <pre/> whose contents are wrapped nicely, while still maintaining its rigid structure.

rgba() values. You can now apply opacity directly to background colors (as opposed to having to create a shim div/span and styling that instead). Note that the below text is fully opaque.

body { background: url(stripes-6); }
div { background: rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.5); }
h2 { background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5); }

inline-block and inline-table Such a powerful addition – and one that now brings Firefox in line with most other browsers. It’ll allow you to create much-more-complicated layouts that were previously very trying to implement using normal CSS. Demo.

Posted: June 25th, 2008


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