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Sexy Tooltips with Just CSS
Providing supplementary information about potentially complex elements of a user interface is a central part of any website designer or developer’s workflow in creating usable and accessible websites. One of the most common mechanisms for providing extra details beyond what you can see on the page is the tooltip (a design pattern for showing tips about a particular element on a screen). While many innovative solutions exist using CSS and JavaScript (with and without JavaScript frameworks like jQuery), it’s sometimes useful to look towards new technologies to examine the impact they may have on our current techniques. Thus, we’re going to look at how using the evolving CSS standard can enhance some lovely cross-browser tooltips.
A Responsive Off-Canvas Menu
This is a responsive off-canvas menu demo using CSS transforms and transitions . Give it a try on your mobile device! Check back soon for a more accessible version. This article is from my blog. To wrap up 2011 I wrote a few thoughts on web design looking forward. Because I found it so helpful to remain focused with this personal reference, I’m doing it again this year.
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Welcome to the jQUIT Builder. With jQUIT Builder you can build custom jQuery UI themes based on Metro UI. Use the controls in the left side, and when you’re done press download. Feel free to include the theme on your own website, however keep in mind this is a beta version and can’t be guarenteed 100% bugfree yet. If you find this tool useful or have any suggestions, please submit your comments in the “News”-section of the site.
What is Sass? Sass is an extension of CSS that adds nested rules, variables, mixin functions, and a whole lot more. It eases the burden of organizing and maintaining CSS code, while also compiling your Sass code to properly formatted CSS. What is Compass? Compass is an open-source CSS framework that makes using CSS3 and popular design patterns easier than ever. Compass works exclusively with Sass to help you write cleaner, quicker CSS code.
Scout - Compass and Sass without all the hassle
-prefix-free lets you use only unprefixed CSS properties everywhere. It works behind the scenes, adding the current browser’s prefix to any CSS code, only when it’s needed. The target browser support is IE9+ , Opera 10+ , Firefox 3.5+ , Safari 4+ and Chrome on desktop and Mobile Safari , Android browser , Chrome and Opera Mobile on mobile.
Prefix free: Break free from CSS vendor prefix hell!
This is an extension to the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It makes creating pretty buttons easy. (Send improvements to @charliepark .)
Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
Measuring Element Dimension and Location with CSSOM in Windows Internet Explorer 9
This topic is designed to help web developers understand how to access the dimension and location of elements on the page through the CSS Object Model (CSSOM) in Windows Internet Explorer 9. Understanding Properties That Measure Element Dimension and Location The following diagrams represent different CSSOM properties for the same page. The sample page contains a div red element that is relatively positioned on the page.
Circle Hover Effects with CSS Transitions
A tutorial about how to create different interesting hover effects on circles with CSS transitions and 3D rotations. View demo Download source In today’s tutorial we’ll experiment with hover effects on circles. Since we have the border radius property, we can create circular shapes and they have been appearing more often as design elements in websites. One use that I especially enjoy seeing is the circular thumbnail which just looks so much more interesting than the usual rectangular.
Drag & drop image files onto the space below, or use the “Open” link to load images using the file browser. Then, click “Generate” to create a sprite sheet and stylesheet. This demo uses a couple of HTML5 APIs, and it is only compatible with modern browsers.
Stitches - An HTML5 sprite sheet generator
Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative absolute float
1. position:static The default positioning for all elements is position:static , which means the element is not positioned and occurs where it normally would in the document. Normally you wouldn't specify this unless you needed to override a positioning that had been previously set. 2. position:relativeIn Web 2.0 registration and feedback forms can be found everywhere. Every start-up tries to attract visitors’ attention, so web-forms are becoming more and more important for the success of any company. In the end, exactly those web-forms are responsible for the first contact with potential customers. Let’s take a look, which modern solutions a web-developer can use, designing his/her next css-based form.