List of CSS Tools

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What can be better than simple, useful and handy tools you can use “on the fly” in the development process? Whether you’d like to test font size, generate online forms, create rollover navigation, create a slideshow, format CSS code or optimize your code - you can use dozens of tools to make your life easier.

We’ve collected them. At least most of them, and compiled them in a brief and precise overview. And here what we’ve come out with - most useful CSS-Tools you can use developing tableless web-sites.

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Fonts

• CSS Font and Text Style Wizard Use this wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code.
• text sizing - up the garden path 264 Screenshots
• Typetester Compare fonts for the screen
  

Forms

• Accessible Form Builder Generate XHTML-compliant accessible forms quicky and easily
• CSS Form Code Maker Generates ‘Colorful Box Layout’ For Forms
• JotForm Web Based WYSIWYG Form Builder

  

Layout

• CSS Creator Live CSS Cascading Style Sheet Layout generator for your web site
• CSS HTML PHP Website Template Maker This PHP - HTML - CSS template generator creates a two column layout with both a header and a footer….
• Firdamatic Firdamatic is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily…
• Free CSS Template Code Generator Maker for 3 Column Layout (tableless)
• Page Maker - The Generator Form v2.90 CSS Source Ordered Variable Border 1-3 Columned Page Maker

Navigation

• Listamatic not a tool but very useful! - one list, many options - Using CSS and a simple list to create radically different list
• Listamatic2 nested list options
• List-O-Matic Generate CSS-styled navigation menus based on list items
• List-O-Rama! Dreamweaver MX and UltraDev Zone - List-O-Rama will allow you to generate nice CSS inline menus in seconds

Misc Tools

• HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard Use this wizard to experiment with table border styles and generate style source code.
• Online CSS Scrollbar Color Changer Change the scrollbar colors in an HTML page
• Spanky Corners ‘Spanky Corners’ is an experimental technique for using only CSS to produce ‘round-cornered content boxes’ with semantically pure markup. It does not require JavaScript to work

Formatters and Optimizers

• CSS Compressor Use this utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well.
• CSSTidy CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser…..
• Clean CSS - Optmize and Format your CSS CSS Formatter and Optimiser, CSS Formatierer und Optimierer
• Format CSS Online Automatically format your CSS (cascading style sheets) so they are easy to read and edit.
• Icey CSS Compressor Removes everything useless from stylesheets.
• Online CSS Optimizer CSS Optimizer optimizes and reduces the file size of the Cascading Style Sheets
• Online CSS Optimiser/Optimizer This tool is used to optimise CSS code. Enter either a URL or Copy & Paste the stylesheet into the box, and click Go
• Pretty Printer for PHP, Java, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript, CSS This is a source code beautifier (source code formatter), similiar to indent
• Tabifier HTML and CSS code beautifier