10 Amazing Examples of Innovative CSS3 Animation. CSS3 has brought about a number of aesthetically impressive new features. Perhaps the most fun of these to play with is CSS animation, which allows you to perform many motion-based functions normally delegated to JavaScript. Join me on my epic quest to discover the coolest, most innovative, and more importantly, nerdiest use of CSS animation on the web. Begin! Warning: These animations are pretty browser specific, so if you’re surfing in IE6, it’s time to stop watching Saved By The Bell, ditch the dial-up connection and download a modern browser. Rotating Polaroids This tutorial shows you how to create an amazing, animated pile of photographs utilizing a ton of new CSS3 commands.
Click to View Demo The Matrix Follow the white rabbit.. err I mean, check out this awesome Matrix animation. Click to View Demo Trippy Spinning Column of Fun This crazy animation features a spinning column made up of rotating rows of colored boxes and text. Click to View Demo DJ Hero Click to View Demo 3D Animated Cube. 50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques - Smashing Magazi. Advertisement CSS3 is coming. Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers. That’s a reasonable solution — after all it doesn’t make sense to avoid learning CSS3 (that will be heavily used in the future) only because these features are not supported yet. The point of this article is to give you a glimpse of what will be possible soon and what you will be using soon and provide you with an opportunity to learn about new CSS3 techniques and features.
In this post we present 50 useful and powerful CSS3/jQuery-techniques that can strongly improve user experience, improve designer’s workflow and replace dirty old workarounds that we used in Internet Explorer 6 & Co. Visual Effects and Layout Techniques With CSS3 Navigation Menus With CSS 3 Learning New CSS3 Selectors. 45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools for designers and developers. However, sometimes it’s difficult to come up with the one excellent idea that would solve a problem that you are facing right now. Good news: almost every day designers and developers come up with fresh and clever CSS tricks and techniques and share them with other developers online. We regularly collect all these tricks, filter them, sort them, revise them and prepare them for Smashing Magazine readers.
In this post we present 45 useful CSS/JavaScript-techniques that may help you find clever solutions to some of your problems or just get inspired by what is possible with CSS. We cover interesting CSS-techniques, navigation menus, CSS typography, CSS lists and CSS buttons. The focus of this post lies on CSS; please notice that some of the techniques use JavaScript or PHP for enhanced functionality. Please notice that this is the first part of our large round-up of fresh CSS/JavaScript-techniques. CSS3 animations and their jQuery equivalents. As you might know already, I'm not a big fan of animations that are added in CSS3. Yet, several people on Twitter told me why they really like the feature. At that point, I wanted to play around with it too. At the same time, I wanted to see if those animations with CSS3 could be created with jQuery too (especially for those browser that don't support CSS3 animations yet).
So today, I present you Five examples of CSS3 animations and their jQuery equivalents. This tutorial/these examples will show the use of the same HTML, with different classes for CSS3 and jQuery. You can compare both the codes and see which one you like more. Don't forget to check the demo/download the source code to view how everything is working under the hood.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Sadly, CSS3 and HTML5 aren't the standards (yet) these days (when will it ever be?). With that said, check out how you can re-create these and learn some more about CSS3 animations and jQuery. Video Fade jQuery Bounce Pulsate and Colorize Link nudge. Anti Tables » Custom Web Fonts in CSS3. Ce que nous réserve CSS3 en 2010 - Alsacréations. L'écriture des spécifications CSS progresse à grands pas, et la version 3 comporte déjà plusieurs modules implémentés dans les navigateurs récents. L'année 2010 verra certainement nos habitudes changées par les nouvelles possibilités offertes en CSS 3. D'ores et déjà de nombreuses utilisations concrètes voient le jour. Vous pourrez constater l'état d'avancement des différents modules CSS sur la page récapitulative Cascading Style Sheets : Current Work. Des coins arrondis Du Web 2.0 avec style La propriété border-radius arrondit les angles de n'importe quel élément HTML, sans avoir besoin d'images ni de JavaScript.
Using Rounded Corners with CSS3 (EN) Créer des coins arrondis en CSS et sans images CSS: border-radius and -moz-border-radius (EN) La gestion de l'opacité La transparence enfin maîtrisée ! L'interprétation des images transparentes en PNG (24 bits) est une première délivrance pour les web-designers qui pourront mettre en œuvre plus de créativité.
Les arrière plans multiples Les ombrages. Make Your Mockup in Markup. We aren’t designing copies of web pages, we’re designing web pages. Andy Clarke, via Quotes on Design The old way I used to think the best place to design a website was in an image editor. I’d create a pixel-perfect PSD filled with generic content, send it off to the client, go through several rounds of revisions, and eventually create the markup. Does this process sound familiar? That process is whack, yo! Recently, thanks in large part to the influence of design hero Dan Cederholm, I’ve come to the conclusion that a website’s design should begin where it’s going to live: in the browser. Die Photoshop, die Some of you may be wondering, “what’s so bad about using Photoshop for the bulk of my design?” The application Adobe Photoshop CS4 has unexpectedly ruined your day.
Photoshop’s propensity to crash at crucial moments is a running joke in the industry, as is its barely usable interface. Text rendered in Photoshop (left) versus Safari (right). A necessary evil? Get started by getting naked. Nice Web Type – How to use CSS @font-face. Code up top for quick reference, details down below—we’ll prepare typefaces for use on the web, go through @font-face CSS line-by-line, and get the experts’ take on browser support. Updated May 2010 with new syntax from Paul Irish. The CSS: The HTML: <h2>This headline is typeset in <em>your typeface</em>.
</h2> Before we get started If you want to brush up history and basics, Håkon Wium Lie has a great introduction to the CSS @font-face property in his A List Apart article, CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thing. Acquire a typeface You may have a typeface in mind, or you may have no idea where to begin. I have also experimented with several properly-licensed typefaces in a series I call Nice Web Type Likes, providing bits of advice with each example and explaining what I feel are each typeface’s merits. For this demonstration I’ll use Fontin Sans from Exljbris. /* A font by Jos Buivenga (exljbris) -> www.exljbris.nl */ Go grab a properly licensed typeface, then continue reading here.
Tools vs. <! Nice And Simple Toolbar For Your Website With CSS3 And jQuery | During these months I’ve learned an important lesson as blogger. If you want to start an activity on the web with a blog, magazine or a general website, you must plan a clever action on the Social Networking and Bookmarking websites. Often it’s an hard thing to interface a website with the many available social services, but recently there are some famous blogs, like Abduzeedo and Mashable, that are using a fixed toolbar on the bottom of the page with useful button for the sharing.
There are services, like Wibiya, that allow to add a toolbar in a few steps, but why don’t you create a really custom panel using your CSS and jQuery skills? In this tutorial we’ll learn how to build a nice toolbar for our website using some CSS3 properties and basic jQuery techniques. The Idea Behind Our goal is to realize a fixed panel, on the bottom of the page, to improve interaction with our users.
So a panel with social icons and their tooltip bubbles on the left side and a quick menu on the right. CSS3 : la transparence de couleur avec RGBa - Alsacréations. Le module de couleurs de CSS3 introduit la notion de transparence dans les valeurs associées à une couleur, l'écriture RGBa. Cette composante de la couleur permet de jouer sur les effets d'opacité entre les différentes couches d'éléments HTML. Contrairement à ce que l'on peut croire, le principe de la transparence RGBa est radicalement différent de la propriété opacity (également CSS3 mais assez ancienne déjà) : cette dernière est une propriété qui s'applique à l'élément dans son intégralité (ainsi qu'à tous ses descendants) tandis que RGBa est une valeur qui s'applique à une propriété de l'élément sélectionné uniquement.
De ce fait, RGBa est susceptible de s'appliquer à toutes les propriétés dont la valeur peut être une couleur : background-color, color, border-color, box-shadow, text-shadow, etc. Voici une illustration du principe de transparence de la couche Alpha (RGBa) (Voir le résultat (RGBa) sur votre navigateur) : Principe de la notation RGBa <div><h1>Joli titre</h1></div> Les ombrages en CSS3 - Alsacréations. Grâce à des propriétés telles que box-shadow, text-shadow et border-colors, les feuilles de style offrent la possibilité de créer des ombrages sur les différents éléments de votre page sans nécessiter d'image décorative et de découpes intempestives. Tout n'est pas rose puisque certains navigateurs à la traîne ne reconnaissent pas encore ces différentes propriétés et nécessitent des adaptations personnalisées.
Faisons le tour du propriétaire... Box-shadow La propriété CSS box-shadow a été incluse dans le module "borders" de CSS3 et permet de générer une ombre portée sur n'importe quel élément HTML. Parmi les différentes valeurs utilisables, il est possible d'indiquer le décalage vertical et horizontal ainsi que la force du dégradé. En voici une illustration (Voir le résultat sur votre navigateur) : Syntaxe Compatibilité et utilisation concrète Seuls les navigateurs modernes, reconnaissent la propriété box-shadow.
Adaptation pour Internet Explorer <9 Le filtre Shadow Le filtre Glow La syntaxe : Blog HTML5 – Également sur CSS3, le design Web et les standards. Our Solar System — An experiment with CSS3 border-radius, transf.