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Level Up Your CSS with These 50+ Resources

Hello everyone, today I will be sharing CSS tools that you can use to create beautiful styles.

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1.Layoutit Grid

Layoutit grid is a CSS Grid layout generator. Quickly drawdown web page layouts with our clean editor, and get HTML and CSS code to quickstart your next project. Also, you can see the code on CodePen!

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2.CSS Grid Generator by Sarah Drasner

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3.Grid by Example

This site is a collection of examples, videos, and other information to help you learn CSS Grid Layout. Developed and maintained by Rachel Andrew.

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4.CSS Grid Garden

Grow your carrot garden while learning about CSS Grid.

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5.Mastery Games

Here you can play around with Zombies and practice Flexbox; save an adorable alien species while learning CSS Grid.

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6.Grid Malven

Grid Cheatsheet.

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7.CSS Tricks - A Complete Guide to Grid

Comprehensive guide to CSS grid by CSS Tricks.

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8.Cubic Bezier

Quickly generate and preview a cubic-bezier with this tool.

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9.CSS Animation

Create your animations with this easy-to-use tool, it's also supporting GSAP.

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10.CSS Animation 101 E-book

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11.CSS Diner

Practice your CSS positioning skills with CSS Diner.

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12.Flexbox Patterns

Here you can get a lot of tips and patterns while using Flexbox.

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13.Flexbox Froggy

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14.Flexbox Cheatsheet

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15.Devinduct Flexbox

Preview and see the code for Flexbox.

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16.Flexbox Defense

Your job is to stop the incoming enemies from getting past your defenses. Unlike other tower defense games, you must position your towers using CSS!

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17.CSS Tricks Almanac

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18.Keyframes

Dead simple visual tools to help you generate CSS for your projects.

Create basic or complex CSS @keyframe animations with a visual timeline editor similar to video-editing software.

Create single or multi-layer box shadows just by moving some sliders. Get the CSS output instantly.

Pick your favorite colors, convert between hex and rgb, and create & save palettes.

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19.CSS Selectors Cheatsheet

This cheat sheet is designed for a quick search on CSS selectors.

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20.CSS Font Stack

Get Web Safe Fonts and much more from Dan's Tools.

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21.Clippy by Bennett Feely

Get your clip-paths and also checkout Bennett Feely's website to see all his tools.

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22.Codrops CSS Reference

An extensive CSS reference with all the important properties and info to learn CSS from the basics.

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23.CSS Reference

Yet another CSS Reference resource.

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24.Frontend Mentor

Frontend Mentor has a lot of projects based on HTML and CSS, you can complete challenges and improve your styles by working on real-life projects.

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25.The Code Player

Video style walkthroughs showing cool stuff being created from scratch.

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26.CSS DB

cssdb is a comprehensive list of CSS features and their positions in the process of becoming implemented web standards.

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27.Border Radius Generator

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28.Button Creator

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29.Best CSS Button Generator

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30.Samantha Ming's Tidbits

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31.Specificity Calculator

A visual way to understand CSS specificity. Change the selectors or paste them into your own.

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32.Clean CSS

Compress your CSS.

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33.100 Days CSS Challenge

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34.CSS Layout

A collection of popular layouts and patterns made with CSS.

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35.Pattern Generator

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36.Paaatterns

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37.Pattern Pad

Create unlimited unique design patterns.

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38.Pattern CSS

CSS only library to fill your empty background with beautiful patterns.

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39.Free Frontend

Free CSS code examples from codepen.io and other resources.

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40.Glassmorphism CSS Generator

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41.Smol CSS

Minimal snippets for modern CSS layouts and components.

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42.Lottie Files

Free animations.

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43.Animating Underlines

Michelle Barker shares some fantastic tips about underline styles and animations.

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44.Free Fonts by FontShare

The service, named Fontshare, will be familiar to anyone who has used Google Fonts. Browse the fonts list, pick out the styles you want, and add them to your site.

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45.BG Jar

Free SVG background generator for your websites, blogs, and app.

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46.Get Waves

A free SVG wave generator to make unique SVG waves.

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47.Custom SVG Shape Dividers

We created this free tool to make it easier for designers and developers to export a beautiful SVG
shape divider for their latest project. We hope you enjoy this tool.

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48.CSS Zen Garden

A demonstration of what can be accomplished through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.

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49.CSS Minifier

Online CSS Minifier/Compressor. Free! Provides an API. Simple Quick and Fast.

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50.CSS Cheatsheet

List of elements, selectors, and styles with relevant links to their MDN pages.

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51.Autoprefixer

Autoprefixer online — web repl for original Autoprefixer. It parses your CSS and adds vendor prefixes to CSS rules using values from Can I Use. It is recommended by Google and used by Twitter and Taobao.

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52.Should I Prefix

This page has one purpose: simply show what prefixes are needed for a newer CSS property.

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53.Design Resources for Developers by Brad Traversy

A curated list of design and UI resources from stock photos, web templates, CSS frameworks, UI libraries, tools, and much more.

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54.Bem Methodology

BEM stands for "Block, Element, Modifier", it's a naming convention in CSS. Learn more on the official website.

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55.CSS Cheatsheet

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Wrapping Up

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Top comments (11)

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Nathaniel • Edited

I made #34 – Pattern generator. Appreciate being on the list!

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Hulya

thank you for making it available to use for everyone 😊

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Sojasmine Gjerstad

Thank you for sharing🥰.

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Domenico

Amazing collection!!! Thanks.

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Hulya

thanks for the feedback Domenico 👍🏻

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olsard

Nice! Thanks a lot for sharing!

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Hulya

Thanks for the feedback @olsard 😃

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Pratik

great resources

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deste_x04

bro if you want consider this website BoxCoding

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Walid Saleh

thank you for this collection 👌

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Muhammad Yousaf 🇵🇰

Thank you, Hulya