What's New in CSS3

Here's a brief peak at what's new in CSS3:

• Borders—Multiple border colors on a side, border images, and rounded corners
• Backgrounds—Multiple backgrounds can be added to a single element, backgrounds can be more precisely positioned, backgrounds can be extended and clipped to the inside or outside of a border, and backgrounds can be resized.
• Color—Color opacity settings, gradients in backgrounds, and HSL color values
• Text—Text shadows, text overflow, and word wrapping
• Transformations—Scale, skew, move, and rotate an element in 2D or 3D space.
• ransitions—Simple dynamic style transitions\
• Box—Add Drop shadows, place userresizable boxes, set overflow separately in horizontal and vertical directions, use outline offset to set space between the outline and the border, apply box model specifications to set how width and height are applied to a box.
• Content—Styles can add content to an element.
• Opacity—Elements can be transparent.
• Media—Style pages based on the viewport size, color, aspect ratio, resolution and other important design considerations.
• Web fonts—Updates and extends the ability to link to fonts for use in a design.

Taken from : CSS3 Quick Start Guide by Jason Cranford Teague