Ten CSS tricks
1. CSS font shorthand rule When styling fonts with CSS you may be doing this: font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: verdana,sans-serif There's no need though as you can use this CSS shorthand property: font: bold italic small-caps 1em/1.5em verdana,sans-serif Much better! Just a few of words of warning : This CSS shorthand version will only work if you're specifying both the font-size and the font-family . The font-family command must always be at the very end of this shorthand command, and font-size must come directly before this. Also, if you don't specify the font-weight , font-style , or font-variant then these values will automatically default to a value of normal , so do bear this in mind too. 2. Two classes together Usually attributes are assigned just one class, but this doesn't mean that that's all you're allowed. In reality, you can assign