About CSS specification

The CSS team recently published first commercial working draft of CSS4. The CSS spec changed just after the release of CSS3. As we know CSS3 is making its way slowly and suddenly W3C launched first official draft of CSS4. So, CSS3 and CSS4 may go hand in hand. Demand for new module makes CSS4 to start their release early. Selector module is an example of it.

New things about CSS4

Pseudo-elements

The first thing we can notice in CSS4 is Pseudo-elements are absent. Don’t worry though, pseudo elements will be there in the future releases of CSS4. New spec might come into different module, or they can merge it into previous modules itself.

UI state pseudo-classes

This class allows you to implement style elements depending on their state and checked items like radio elements, checkbox elements and half a dozen more.

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Absolute positioning is great for positioning items anywhere on a page but it does not mix well with screen-resolution. It might look fine on your resolution but it might look completely different on another resolution. Element placement changes upon changing the screen resolution or even when resizing the browser window. It is because items positioning is measured from the browser’s window.

To always display it correctly, you can put relative or absolute positioning on the parent element.
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Fervens is an extremely attractive and excellent theme for wordpress. After trying numerous themes, I settled for this and its really really amazing.

The only shortcoming was that its main content area was too small. On larger posts, the content would span upto numerous pages which would’ve not taken so much space if it had been a little bit wider.

I tried to experiment with the theme and modify it for greater width. It was not a difficult task and moderate knowledge in CSS is enought to make it accomplish. For the rest of you, I will teach you how to do it.
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