Create a Sticky Note Effect in 5 Easy Steps with CSS3 and HTML5 | Blancer.com Tutorials and projects. Create a Sticky Note Effect in 5 Easy Steps with CSS3 and HTML5 In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to transform an HTML list into a wall of “sticky notes” that look and work like the following… The effect is built up gradually and works on the latest Webkit browsers (Safari, Chrome), Firefox and Opera.
Other browsers simply get some yellow squares. Step 1: The HTML and Basic Squares Let’s start with the simplest version that works across all browsers. As we are using HTML5 for the effect, the basic HTML of our sticky notes is an unordered list with a link containing all the other elements in each list item: <ul><li><a href="#"><h2>Title #1</h2><p>Text Content #1</p></a></li><li><a href="#"><h2>Title #2</h2><p>Text Content #2</p></a></li> […] </ul> Notice that each note is surrounded by a link which is always a good element to use as it automatically means that our notes become keyboard accessible.
The CSS to turn this into the yellow squares is simple: Step 2: Drop Shadows and Scribbly Font. Nicer Navigation with CSS Transitions - GetHiFi. Update: March 21, 2014 - We have an updated post after years of practice with these techniques. Newer versions of Apple's Safari web browser (and Google Chrome, which is also based on Webkit) support a vendor-specific implementation of the CSS3 Transition property. CSS Transitions are a very powerful effect that can eliminate the use of JavaScript for many common effects. Quick Overview There are three properties that make up the transition: -webkit-transition-property, -webkit-transition-duration, and -webkit-transition-timing-function. Additionally, there is a shorthand property that combines the three: -webkit-transition.
-webkit-transition-property: This specifies which properties of the element will be animated. If it is set to all every available property will be animated, otherwise you can choose to animate one or more individual properties and leave the rest as they are. -webkit-transition-duration: The amount of time from the beginning of the transition to the end. A Simple Example. CSS Animation. We have another cool new CSS feature to talk about: animation specified in CSS. There is a lot of ground to cover here, so we’ll start with the basics first. The simplest kind of animation that we’ve added support for is called a transition. Normally when the value of a CSS property changes, the rendered result is instantly updated, with the element in question changing immediately from the old property value to the new property value.
Transitions describe how to instead execute an animation from the old state to the new state over time. Transitions are specified using the following properties: transition-property – What property should animate, e.g., opacity.transition-duration – How long the transition should last.transition-timing-function – The timing function for the transition (e.g., linear vs. ease-in vs. a custom cubic bezier function).transition – A shorthand for all three properties. Here is a simple example: This div will fade out when hovered over. For example: Webkit transition. Pure CSS folded-corner effect. Create a simple CSS folded-corner effect without images or extra markup. It works well in all modern browsers and is best suited to designs with simple colour backgrounds. Demo: Pure CSS folded-corner effect Known support: Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 4+, Safari 4+, Opera 10+, IE 8+ This post is going to expand on the technique used to create the folded-corner effect that is part of the demo page for Multiple Backgrounds and Borders with CSS 2.1.
As a starting point it will look to recreate the appearance of the note style used on the Yiibu‘s fantastic web site. Where Yiibu uses images, this will use pseudo-elements. Nothing complicated. Adding position:relative makes it possible to absolutely position the pseudo-element. The folded-corner The folded-corner is created from a pseudo-element that is positioned in the top corner of the box. In this example, the top and right borders are set to colours that match the background colour of the box’s parent. Adding a subtle shadow Rounded corners. A Comprehensive Guide to CSS Resets. This guide examines the infinite-like variety of CSS resets created by web developers and designers across the world. While almost all of these CSS resets are generally provided free for public use (many through Creative Commons licensing), it is incumbent upon you to check the terms of use before putting them to use in your projects. This guide follows Part 1, where the history of CSS resets was discussed; you’re advised to read that before this one to get the most out of this guide.
This is Part 2 of a three-part series of articles on the topic of CSS resets. In putting together this guide, the 2007 collection of resets by Jeff Starr — who, as an aside, has contributed articles on Six Revisions — was used as a jumping-off point. "Hard" Reset As discussed in Part 1 of this series, the original version of the "hard" reset was by web designer Andrew Krespanis: It wasn’t long before folks added border: 0; and outline: 0; to the list of properties, giving us: Poor Man’s Reset Siolon Reset. Menu Transitions | unraveled. Since I started helping out over at Widgetopia, I’ve been paying much closer attention to Web menus and how they work. The aspect of menus that’s been on my mind the most is the menu transition often used in Flash UIs, such as the “choose a model” menu on the current Volkswagon homepage. What intrigues me about menu transitions is not their effects, but their experience.
As an experiment of sorts, I thought a Nielsenesque miniguide to menu transitions would be fun to write. What are Menu Transitions? Menu transitions are visual (and sometimes audio) effects that connect two separate menu states. A flashy yet well produced example of menu transitions (Flash with sound) can be seen at Joshua Davis Studios. In this example, the two menu states for the “portfolio” button are the resting state and the point at which the three submenu options appear and come to rest. When Are Menu Transitions Appropriate?
Another example of menu transitions can be found on the Elf movie homepage. 100 Exceedingly Useful CSS Tips and Tricks. You can never have too much of a good thing–and two good things we rely on in our work are tips and tricks. Nuggets of information, presented clearly and succinctly, help us build solutions and learn best practices. In a previous article, we shared a jam-packed list of 250 quick web design tips. It seems only right to continue the trend by showcasing 100 fresh–and hopefully useful–CSS tips and tricks. General Not everything in this list was easy to categorize. All of the tips that are relevant and worthy of mention but don’t cleanly fit into a category are listed in this section. Conditional comments have been a godsend for resolving Internet Explorer inconsistencies. 1 It’s critical when working with CSS to be aware of the various properties at your disposal and how to use them correctly. 2 Using a good editor can increase productivity. 3 In many ways, experimentation is the mother of innovation. 5 Caching will conserve bandwidth for visitors and account for much faster speeds.
Animation Using CSS Transforms < CSS. Tweet363 Shares Share0 Tweets37 Comments The examples on this page will work now in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer 10. In older browsers you will see either no effects, or the transforms taking place without any animation. The animations presented below involve setting up a transformation to take place in response to a mouseover or other event.
Then, rather than applying the effect instantly, we assign a transition timing function which causes the transformation to take place incrementally over a set time period. There are also other kinds of animation available, including @keyframes for perpetual motion, and requestAnimationFrame which gives complete control over the timing and path. These are covered in separate articles. Firefox and Opera now support these transforms with an almost identical syntax - just replace -webkit- with -moz- or -o- in the examples below.
Internet Explorer 10 supports transitions with no prefix. -webkit-transition -moz-transition transition. CSS Transitions 101. Despite people’s expectation of change and movement on the screen, CSS and HTML have few controls that allow you to design interactivity, and those that exist are binary. A link is either one color or another. A text field is either one size or another. A photo is either transparent or opaque. No in-betweens from one state to the next. No transitions. This has led to most web pages feeling abrupt, with elements shifting and changing ungracefully. Yes, we can use DHTML and leverage the jQuery library for transitions, but this requires a lot of code for something that should be very simple.
What we need is a quick and easy way to add simple transitions to the page and in this article you’ll find useful information about CSS transitions and how to use them. A few months back, I stuck my foot in my mouth by suggesting that designers should start using the new CSS 3 techniques that allow them to do some of the basic styling that they’ve been pleading for. Where CSS Transitions Come From Animation. Vertical Centering in CSS. Yuhu's Definitive Solution with Unknown Height Though there is a CSS property vertical-align, it doesn't work like attribute valign in HTML tables. CSS property vertical-align doesn't seem to be able to solely solve this problem: Definition of the problem there is an area (e.g. <div>) with known height in the page an internal object (typically long text in <div>) is inside the area and I don't know its height (e.g. because its content is dynamically generated from a database) I want to center the object vertically within the area without using HTML tables.
No general solution was known until September 2004. I have found it going home on Wilson street. Display an example of the vertical centering in your browser. The idea The keystone of the solution for Internet Explorer 6, 7 or quirk mode is this: the internal object is absolutely positioned in half of the area height. Solution for standard browsers like Mozilla, Opera, Safari etc. Then both syntax are merged. Compatibility The result looks: Understanding border-image. The new CSS3 property border-image is a little tricky, but it can allow you to create flexible boxes with custom borders (or drop shadows, if that's your thing) with a single div and a single image.
In this article I explain how the border-image shorthand property works in today's browsers. The basic idea The border-image shorthand property has 3 parts: border-image: url(border-image.png) 25% repeat; Essentially, these allow you to specify: An image to use as the borderWhere to slice that image, dividing the image into 9 sectionsHow the browser should apply those sections to the edges of your element The pertinent details Let's look at each part of the process in a little more detail.
Slicing your image The second part can have from one to four values, much like the border-width property, and they are specified in the same order: top, right, bottom, left. Border-image: url(my-image.gif) 25% 30% 10% 20% repeat;border-image: url(my-image.gif) 25 30 10 20 repeat; Repeat, Round, Stretch Border-width. Semantic CSS3 Lightboxes. The rise of jQuery, MooTools, and JavaScript frameworks has given many web designers a new lease on life, adding more unique functionality into their sites. Most notably among the various cool and interesting features you can find being injected into a design is the humble lightbox (modal window).
If you’ve ever come across a link or image which — upon clicking — increases in size and where the rest of the screen gets "shaded" to focus on the content, you’ll know what I’m talking about. This tutorial aims to showcase a method of displaying content based on the lightbox, which is web accessible and (excluding Internet Explorer) will require no scripting at all. Sound like fun? Well, let’s explore the subject further! Demonstration Click the preview image below to see a live demonstration. What About Scripting? There’s a lot to be said about the benefits of using client-side scripting for this. Why Not Just Use JavaScript? Therefore, a solution is required. Browser Support of this CSS Lightbox <! How to Create Inset Typography with CSS3. In this tutorial, we’ll create inset type, a popular text treatment, using CSS. If you follow Six Revisions closely, you’re probably thinking: "Jacob already wrote a Photoshop tutorial on how to do that.
" That is correct, but this time we are going to do it using only CSS. I set out to recreate the How to Create Inset Typography in Photoshop tutorial, and after experimenting with some fresh and new CSS3 properties, I was able to make a similar type treatment. We’ll do all of this in less than ten lines of CSS. Step 1: The HTML markup Let’s first set up the HTML, which is super simple. <div id="insetBgd"><h1 class="insetType">Inset Typography</h1></div> Step 2: The background The first bit of CSS we want to do is the background. Next, we are going to use CSS3 gradients. We want the background to have a gradient going top to bottom, from #003471 to #448CCB. The code to do this is: Step 3: Define the font stack and styles Next, we want to define our preferred font.
Step 4: The inset styles. Snazzy Hover Effects Using CSS. With all these CSS3 effects and tutorials popping up every day that show all the new and wonderful things we can make happen, we sometimes forget about poor little old CSS2.1 and the great potential it still has. With very good browser support, we can do lots of cool things that we know will work in all major browsers.
In this tutorial, I will be going over creating flexible advanced hover techniques using CSS2.1 properties. Here is a live demonstration of the effect we will be creating. Advanced hover states are quite simple When I first started learning CSS, the :hover pseudo-element was no more than a way to remove the underline on a text link. Since then, through experimentation, I have learnt that it is so much more powerful and it can create some really cool effects when used in conjunction with other CSS properties. The astute reader will see that this technique has great potential outside of what we discuss here, such as showing CSS tool tips when hovering over a hyperlink. <! Wrap up. Using the CSS @import Rule. Even the most complex style sheet starts out with a single rule. But when you’re working on a particularly massive and complex website, over time your style sheet will inevitably start to reflect the site’s size and complexity.
And even if you employ every trick for organizing your CSS in the book, you might find that the sheer size of the file is simply overwhelming. At that point, you might want to consider splitting your style sheet up into several smaller CSS files. That’s when the @import rule can come in quite handy. The @import rule is another way of loading a CSS file. You can use it in two ways. The simplest is within the header of your document, like so: <style> @import url('/css/styles.css'); </style> But that isn’t necessarily the best method for keeping your XHTML small and your code clean.
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