Csssearch (pronounced “scchearch”) is the first CSS search engine.
While other search sites index the web’s content, Csssearch goes after the layout. Using some clever cascade-aware logic as it munches CSS files, the search tools give you the web in its non-semantic glory. Who cares about the content, let’s look at the layout!
Search in your web history, delicious bookmarks or the entire web. Great for the forgetful, people with better visual memories and anyone looking for code or design case studies. For example -
- find that three column layout you saw last month
- get back to the page with those chunky black text labels
- look at some sites with pale blue backgrounds
- find examples of browser-compatible layout tricks
- enter a specific css phrase to see it in action
The API allows for some intriguing exploratory tools, including a neat dynamic layout browser. As you resize your mini version, adjusting headers, columns, spacing etc, real world examples of similar layouts are fetched from the index and displayed in thumbnail form below.
Csssearch: all the benefits of a search engine, with none of the content!
