Orman Clark’s Vertical Navigation Menu: The CSS3 Version. Next in the Orman Clark's coded PSD series is his awesome looking Vertical Navigation Menu. We'll recreate it with CSS3 and jQuery while using the minimal amount of images possible. The only images we'll be using are for the icons - I'll be creating a sprite using a new tool called SpriteRight, but this is optional. Additionally, I'll be using GradientApp to create my CSS3 gradients, but again this is optional. Step 1: Basic HTML Markup Let's start off by throwing in some basic markup, an empty HTML5 document: And now the markup for our menu; an unordered list within a containing wrapper.
Lastly, we create the submenus by placing an unordered list nested within each of our existing list items. Okay, there may seem a lot there but don't let it confuse you. I've also added a class to each list item, just so it'll make styling easier later on. Step 2: Fluid Fonts We'll first make sure our menu displays correctly. Now to explain how the wrapper font size works. Step 3: Main Menu CSS Okay! jQuery Fancy Switch. I wrote a post a while back on coding an iPhone style switch using jQuery.
I’ve now put together a simple tutorial demonstrating how simple it is to build a switch that triggers two radio buttons in a field set. It also degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled just displaying the two radio buttons with labels. This tutorial is aimed at users just stepping on the jQuery ladder, and hopefully this will demonstrate how simple some techniques are. The design of the switch was done by Shegy and you can download the full set of switch designs as a PSD here The Code Lets run through line by line the JavaScript. The first three lines after the DOM ready function are setup incase the user has JavaScript disabled. We’ve then setup a ‘change()’ function which means the function is executed each time the user selects either checkbox, we then check the value of the radio button thats been selected and adjust the background position of the sprite image.
The HTML The CSS. Awesome Inline Form Labels - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com. CSS Box Shadow & Text Shadow Experiments - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com. Drop-In Modals - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com. Simple Modals The simple modal style we show here is very basic, but effective. The modal itself is set to opacity: 0.0 and when we click the button it changes to opacity: 1.0. A -webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s linear on the shown state causes the fade in effect, so we only need javascript to change the state of the modal — not the animation. Show the Simple Modal Fancy Modal This modal is shown and hidden in a similar manner.
We use a few properties like transforms, transitions and box shadows. Show the Fancy Modal Copyright ZURB, freely available for distribution under the MIT license. This is a simple modal. It appears based on one line of javascript and can be dismissed using the OK button below. This is a fancier modal. Using generated gradients, text-shadows, and box-shadows we can create this drop-down modal. Product Design Training from the Experts at ZURB This is a default modal in all its glory, but any of the styles here can easily be changed in the CSS. Your ZURB ID explained. CSS Animations.
Friend: You should learn how to write CSS! Me: …Friend: CSS; Cascading Style Sheets. If you’re serious about web design, that’s the next thing you should learn.Me: What’s wrong with <font> tags? That was 8 years ago. Thanks to the hard work of Jeffrey, Andy, Andy, Cameron, Colly, Dan and many others, learning how to decently markup a website and write lightweight stylesheets was surprisingly easy. They made it so easy even a complete idiot (OH HAI) was able to quickly master it. And then… nothing. For a long time, it seemed like there wasn’t happening anything in the land of CSS, time stood still.
Fast forward a couple of years to late 2006. Back in the time machine. Epic win? Howto: A basic spinner No matter how fast internet tubes or servers are, we’ll always need spinners to indicate something’s happening behind the scenes. There are some downsides to this though: What do we need to make a spinner with CSS animations? <p id="spinner">Please wait while we do what we do best. Nice! But… New Twitter Design with CSS and JQuery. The Twitter new web interface design is live for many more today. The makeover of the new Twitter was really fantastic, In this post I decided to explain how to implement new Twitter user interface design with CSS and JQuery. Use it and enrich your web applications.
Take a look at this awesome demo. Download Script Live Demo Step 1 First create a DIV element with attribute ID value container. Step 2 Now create a panel-frame DIV element inside the container DIV. Step 3 Here the final HTML code ready. Container'> // Right partright'> <div id="panel-frame"> <div class="panel"> <div class="head"><a href="#" class="close">Close</a></div> <div class="data">// jquery id </div> </div> </div> //Left Part <div class="left"> // Message display here <div class="block" id="1">1</div> <div class="block" id="2">2</div>.............................................................. Javascript$(".block").click(function(){})- block is the class name of DIV tag. });</script> A Colorful Clock With CSS & jQuery.
Martin Angelov The first wave of Christmas holidays passed and we are looking forward to New Year’s Eve for a fresh start at all those things we failed to do the last 12 months. And in the mood of the upcoming holiday, this week we are going to make a colorful jQuery & CSS clock, which will help you keep track of those precious last seconds of the year. This is also the first tutorial that features our first very own jQuery plug-in – tzineClock (soon to be released officially in a post of its own). Go ahead, download the demo files and continue with step one. Step 1 – XHTML As usual, we start with the XHTML markup. This saves us from having to manually type similar blocks of code for each one of the dials (there are three of them, one for the hours, the minutes and the seconds). Lets take a look at the XHTML that is inserted by jQuery: jquery.tzineClock.js This code is contained in jquery.tzineClock/jquery.tzineClock.js.
Lets continue with the next step. A Colorful jQuery & CSS Clock Step 2 – CSS. HTML5 Grayscale Image Hover. Once upon a time, grayscale image has to be manually converted in order to be displayed on the web. Now with HTML5 canvas, images can be manipulated into grayscale without having to use image editing software. I've put together a demo to show you how to use HTML5 & jQuery to dynamically clone color images into grayscale (see demo). Credits: thanks to Darcy Clarke (my Themify's partner) for the jQuery and Javascript code.
View Demo HTML5 Grayscale The Purpose This demo is intented to show you how to make a grayscale/color image hover effect with HTML5 and jQuery. jQuery Code The jQuery code below will look for the target images and generate a grayscale version. How to use it To apply this to your site: include a copy of jquery.js paste the code as shown above set the target image (eg: .post-img, img, .gallery img, etc.) you may change the animation speed (ie. 1000 = 1 second) Compatibility It works with any browser that support HTML5 and Javascript such as Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Credits. Responsive Design with CSS3 Media Queries. Screen resolution nowsaday ranges from 320px (iPhone) to 2560px (large monitor) or even higher. Users no longer just browse the web with desktop computers. Users now use mobile phones, small notebooks, tablet devices such as iPad or Playbook to access the web. So the traditional fixed width design doesn't work any more.
Web design needs to be adaptive. The layout needs to be automatically adjusted to fit all display resolution and devices. View Demo Responsive Design Download Demo ZIP See It in Action First Before you start, check the final demo to see how it looks like. More Examples If you want to see more examples, check out the following WordPress themes that I designed with media queries: Tisa, Elemin, Suco, iTheme2, Funki, Minblr, and Wumblr. Overview The page's container has a width of 980px which is optimized for any resolution wider than 1024px. HTML Code I'm not going to go through the details of the HTML code. HTML5.js Note that I use HTML5 markup in my demo.
Main Structure CSS. CSS: Elastic Videos. While I was coding the Elemin Theme (a responsive WordPress theme that I recently designed), one of the challenges that I faced was to make the embedded videos elastic. Using the max-width:100% and height:auto trick works with native HTML5 video tag, but it doesn't work with embed code using iframe or object tag. After hours of experimenting and Googling, I finally found a trick on how to achieve this. If you are creating a responsive design, this simple CSS trick will come in handy. View the final demo and resize your browser window to see it in action.
View Demo Elastic Videos Elastic HTML5 Videos (demo) With HTML5 video element, you can easily make it elastic by using the max-width:100% trick (see elastic HTML5 video demo). Elastic Object & Iframe Embedded Videos (demo) The trick is very simple. How to Create Fixed Width & Elastic To restrict the width of the video, an additional <div> wrapper is required. Compatibility Credits This trick was found on tjkdesign.com. CSS3 Image Styles. When applying CSS3 inset box-shadow or border-radius directly to the image element, the browser doesn't render the CSS style perfectly. However, if the image is applied as background-image, you can add any style to it and have it rendered properly.
Darcy Clarke and I put a quick tutorial together on how to use jQuery to make perfect rounded corner images dynamically. Today I'm going to revisit the topic and show you how much more you can do with the background-image CSS trick. I will show you how to use box-shadow, border-radius and transition to create various image styles. View Demo Image Styles Problem (see demo) Take a look at the demo and note that there is border-radius and inset box-shadow applied in the first row of images. Workaround To get the border-radius and inset box-shadow working, the workaround is to apply the actual image as background-image. Dynamic Way To make it dynamic, you can use to jQuery to wrap the background image dynamically for every image element. Output. Advanced CSS Menu. Last tutorial, I showed you how to design a watercolor effect menu in Photoshop.
This tutorial I will show you how to slice up the menu design (step by step) and put them together with CSS. Most of you probably know how to code a horizontal or vertical CSS list menu. Now let's take it to the next level — code an advanced (un-typical) list menu utilizing the CSS position property. View Demo CSS menu Download Demo ZIP Overview Here are the required graphics to assembe the menu (you can download from the zip). 1. Open the Photoshop file. 2. Turn off the background Layer Group and leave only the menu text layers visible. Create a new file and take note of the file dimension (w x h), in my case the "home" graphic is 144 x 58px.
Here is how the hover effect will work. Repeat this step for the other buttons. 3. When you are done with the graphics, let's start coding. #menu Reset the menu to no padding, no margin, and no list-style. #menu span #menu a The key point here is the text-indent property. 50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools. Advertisement These are great times for front-end developers. After months of exaggerated excitement about HTML5 and CSS3, the web design community now starts coming up with CSS techniques that actually put newly available technologies to practical use instead of abusing them for pure aesthetic purposes.
We see fewer “pure CSS images” and more advanced, clever CSS techniques that can actually improve the Web browsing experience of users. And that’s a good thing! In this post we present recently released CSS techniques, tutorials and tools for you to use and enhance your workflow, thus improving your skills. Please don’t hesitate to comment on this post and let us know how exactly you are using them in your workflow. CSS Techniques Now Playing: transitions and animations with CSSTim Van Damme showcases a fairly simple CSS design that uses transitions, animations and subtle hover-effects to produce an engaging user experience. Further Interesting Techniques clearfix Reloaded + Creating Interactive Fictional UI With CSS3. In today’s article we will create an interactive fiction user interface (UI) coded with CSS transforms and transition properties.
The idea is to have a button and reveal more information when mouse over on it. You can check out the demo before you proceed to the next section. View Demo Cool right? Let’s get started! HTML Structure We will have a simple HTML structure with several division where each one contains title and description. As you can see above, each menu object “menu_obj” division contains extra classes such as “home”, “profile” and “contact” that gives us freedom to define background image with CSS later. Home Button Profile Button Contact Button Hover State Ok.
CSS Style Let’s define the style for each buttons and its child. First of all, we have given the width, height for each “menu_obj”; apply inner and outer drop shadows; and define the transition type and its duration. The title element has scale up 5 times, and 0 opacity. The content division will fade in and scale up to 1. HTML & CSS. Creating a Mouseover Fade Effect with jQuery. My last little jQuery tutorial was an alternative to using CSS to create an image change on a mouseover. Now I want to take that one step further and add a fade effect. For my example, I am going to make a black and white image fade into a color image. To achieve this effect I am going to introduce the animate function. There are tons of possibilities in regards to jQuery’s animate function, but for this tutorial, I’m going to keep it simple by just using it to do one thing. First things first, download jQuery. Add the jQuery script between your head tags. Here is the function. Here is the CSS.
And here is the body code. All together you got something that looks like this. Test it out below: NOTE: If you are using jQuery with WordPress, you need to replace all the dollar signs ($) with the word jQuery due to other Javascript libraries that use the dollar sign. WowBook, create ebooks with page flip. CSS - CSS3 Shadow Pack. The regular CSS3 box-shadow property is quite restrictive in the type of shadows that you can produce. So whenever we need to include any fancy shadows in our projects, it is Photoshop to the rescue ! But now with this CSS3 Shadow Pack you can say goodbye to Photoshop. As the title says these shadows are done entirely using CSS, and no images at all have been used. The process of applying a shadow to a container is as easy as applying a few class names to that container. In this pack you get 11 popular and attractive shadow styles. Updated on 19 August 2012 – Version 2.0.2 Updated the css to make the Shadows work in newer versions of Firefox Updated on 15 February 2012 – Version 2.0.1 Updated the css to make the Shadows more compatible with IE9+ Updated on 21 December, 2010 – version 2.0 Added 5 new shadow styles, taking total styles to 11.
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