Using CSS day-to-day? Whether you’re a super savvy web developer or just someone who wants to learn web development, this CSS cheat sheet should help you out.
I originally made it for myself, but eventually wanted to share this on WebsiteSetup.
So here you have it – a total of 29 pages, structured into different paragraphs: backgrounds, borders, fonts, texts, Column, Colours, Grid positioning and a lot more (including UI).
And oh! I’ve also listed out all the new CSS3 tags/divs, too.
Enjoy!
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Need more help?
- I’ve also written this HTML Guide for Beginners and put together this HTML cheat sheet.
- If you’re interested in alternative ways of building a website (i.e. using WordPress), feel free to check out my website building guide with WordPress.
Natalie
Thank you very much for creating and compiling all these cheat sheets!
Benny Goodman
Thank you for all you do and all you share.
Ilya Streltsyn
Hello Nick! You did a great work at composing this cheat sheet. Unfortunately, it seems that some of the sources you used were seriously outdated or not completely reliable, so there are some things in this cheat sheet that are not exactly complete or correct. Here are some of them I noticed:
background-image: CSS gradients are also values of this property. Maybe it’s worth to add them?
background-attachment: maybe it’s worth to mention the new `local` keyword?
background-clip: according to the CSS specs, length, %, and no-clip are not valid options for this property
border: wouldn’t it worth to mention that is also resets background-image?
display: there is a missing hyphen in some values (inline-block, table-header-group). Also, maybe it’s worth to add other modern values – (inline-)flex, (inline-)grid, and contents?
marquee-*: does it really belong to Box Model? Also, this CSS module is abandoned and deprecated in favor of CSS animations.
rotation: it should probably be placed in Transforms section, together with other separate transform properties.
font-family: its valid keywords are either generic names like serif, sans-serif, monospace, fantasy etc., or names of specific fonts like “helvetica”
letter-spacing: missing hyphen
word-wrap: valid values are “normal” and “nowrap”, not length & %
Grid Positioning: this module is actually outdated (as well as Template Layout module). Their modern (and well-supported) replacement is CSS Grid Layout
Template Layout: same as above. Also, “box-*” properties actually belong to the old draft of the CSS Flexbox module, not Template Layout.
:nth-last-of-type: missing hyphen
::before and ::after: these pseudo-elements insert content before/after the *content* of the element, not the element itself (i.e. inside the element, as its virtual first/last child)
px unit: in CSS, is defined as absolute unit equal to 1/96 in and has (almost) nothing to do with “pixels of viewing device”
I wish your cheat sheet to become a really useful tool for CSS beginners, and hope that good modern resources like MDN and the “official definition of CSS” from W3C, which includes the list of all CSS properties currently in use (https://www.w3.org/TR/css/#properties), will help you to fix these issues!
Nick Schäferhoff
Thanks for your detailed feedback! We have made changes accordingly.
Laura R
Thank you Nick! This was exactly what I needed and helps fit my learning style. It’s nice to see the layout and also to be able to refer back to it as needed.
Faith in humanity restored. 🙂
Ashtami
Yes, This is very helpful for me as a beginner in designing.
Nick Schäferhoff
Glad to be of service!
G
Thanks, this is super useful!
Small typo on line 546, says ‘flabor’ instead of ‘flavor’.
Nick Schäferhoff
Thanks for pointing that out, it has been fixed by now!
Nether
Hi, it is very useful for quick reference. Thank you for the hard work.
Nick Schäferhoff
Glad you found it useful, thanks for the kind words!
Cletus
This is amazing, thanks
Rajesh
Really very good work. A handy reference for designers. Much appreciated.
WebsiteSetup Editorial
Glad you like it 🙂
Raul
Hi WebsiteSetup Editorial, thank you very much for the great work!!! Do you also have a (beginners) guide for building with Drupal 8?
WebsiteSetup Editorial
Hi Raul,
Sure, I have a basic guide for Drupal here: https://websitesetup.org/build-website-drupal/
Bruno Sá
Thanks a lot!! Great Cheat Sheet!
Rhino
Hi WebsiteSetup Editorial, thanks so much for the share. Much appreciated! 🙂
Paul Jacobson
Thank you, this is great.
Hassan
Thanks a lot, this is super helpful sheet 🙂