Creating a Star Rater using CSS. CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists. One of the minor holy grails of XHTML and CSS is to produce a single, semantically logical ordered list that wraps into vertical columns. The ideal situation, in my view, would be a single XHTML list whose wrapping is controlled entirely by CSS. Further, the wrapped list should tolerate text resizing (easily accomplished by styling everything in ems).
CSS and the browsers that support it don’t yet provide us with “vertical wrap,” so we have to augment basic list markup with additional attributes and styling rules to achieve the effect. I’ll take you there—or as close as we can get using today’s browsers—but along the way let’s look at a variety of ways to accomplish a similar effect. We’ll be shooting for something that looks a bit like this: (Why, you’ve doubtless been pondering, is this article entitled “CSS Swag”? Watch your step#section1 I’ll warn you up front. The reality is not so ideal. So why do we bother? To work, then.
First, expunge all white space#section2 See Example 1. CSS Stacked Bar Graphs - Wojo Design. To design the stats feature of Backbone, our Ruby on Rails CMS, we needed to show a stacked bar graph of page views vs unique visitors. I looked around for a sample of how others did stacked bar graphs and came up empty handed. There are plenty of CSS bar graph interpretations, but none of them did stacked bar graphs. So I’ve done it here. Based off Alen Grakalic’s Pure CSS Data Chart. The Markup The first thing I do anytime I start HTML/CSS work is code the HTML. Like Alen Grakalic’s implementation, I used a definition list.
Each <dd> is given a class that corresponds to the percentage of that bar. p100 is 100% the height of the graph and p0 is 0% the height of the graph. The other class to which we’ve added some of the <dd> tags is “sub”. Finally, we wrap our data in <b> and <span> tags so we have enough to work with when we’re styling it. Styling the Graph. Next, we hide the dt tags. I’ve made a diagram to explain what each tag is doing. Add the Axes. Styling the Axes. CSS-Based Tables: Modern Solutions. Advertisement We continue to present some of the best CSS-techniques which web-developers can always use working on their current web-project. Recently we’ve taken a look at the best css-based forms1, today we present some useful techniques for displaying information in a tabular mode. In fact, tables can present data quite efficiently, particularly if you can use some sorting or filtering functions in order to improve the legibility of the text stored in the table.
Furthermore, Zebra tables are becoming more and more popular, and the techniqies supposed to enhance their functionality appear on a weekly basis. So what do we have? Let’s take a look around: over 28 modern css-based techniques in a brief overview. Links checked: May/27 2008. Zebra Tables Redesigning a simple table3 Zebra Tables5 Better Zebra Tables7 Splintered striper: Enhanced Zebra Stripes9 Standardista Table Sorting (A client-side JavaScript Table Sort module)10 Designing Tables with Stylesheets12 2184ways: Tables with style19. CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions. Formalize CSS - Teach your forms some manners! jQuery HTML Table Toolbox - Noupe Design Blog. Apr 13 2010 By Paul Andrew In the 15 years since the HTML table element was first incorporated into HTML 2.0, it has been on a constant roller coaster ride.
Upon its introduction it was a revelation, it was a new way for web designers to present detailed data in structured tabular format, it made our life easier and we loved it. But as is the nature of web development, it was pushed further and further to do even more. Pretty soon the main use of tables was no longer tabular data, it was used as a handy and quick way to control the layout of a complicated web page.
Yes, we loved it even more. But that is were the love story ends and its bad rep begins.Using the table element for web layouts proved to be hard to modify, obtrusive and, more importantly, it caused major accessibility and usabilty problems. Out of the box the tables are very, very bland, reasonably hard to style, its very difficult to display complex data effectively and you are limited to its basic functionality.