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? 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. That’s it! Conclusion
Fancy lightbox alternative| How to use 1. First, make sure you are using valid DOCTYPE This is required for FancyBox to look and function correctly. 2. Loading jQuery from CDN (Content Delivery Network) is recommended Optional - Add transitions as jQuery by default supports only "swing" and "linear" Optional - Enable "mouse-wheel" to navigate throught gallery items 3. Don`t forget to change background image paths if CSS file is not in the same directory. Also, check src paths for AlphaImageLoader as they are relative to the HTML document, while regular CSS background images are relative to the CSS document (read more). 4. Images Inline content <a id="inline" href="#data">This shows content of element who has id="data"</a><div style="display:none"><div id="data">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Iframe <a href=" Ajax <a href=" takes content using ajax</a> Optional - Use the title attribute for anchors if you want to show a caption 5. Sample examples:
How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery Ever seen some excellent jQuery navigation that left you wanting to make one of your own? Today we’ll aim to do just that by building a menu and animate it with some smooth effects. The Goal – One Smooth Menu Here’s a demo of what we’ll end up with by the end. Introduction – An explanation of easing The menu has such a smooth animation because of a thing called “easing”. “The term easing refers to gradual acceleration or deceleration during an animation, which helps your animations appear more realistic. Thanks to the magic of the jQuery Easing plugin, we can now use easing outside of Flash and Actionscript environments. Step 1 – Set up the Structure Before starting with any jQuery, we’ve got to build a quick menu structure with XHTML and load in the required project files. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Then copy in this menu structure into the body: Menu items have a class assigned to it that will designate the color of the block. Step 3 – Style with CSS Step 4 – Animate with jQuery
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Create a Simple Infinite Carousel with jQuery Introduction Finally, I have times for this carousel script. I always think that it's hard to figure it out, but thanks to a tutorial - Making a jQuery Infinite Carousel with nice features from tutsvalley. Alright, We have a main wrapper called carousel and inside it, we have two sections - buttons and slides. <div id="carousel"><div id="buttons"><a href="#" id="prev">prev</a><a href="#" id="next">next</a><div class="clear"></div></div><div class="clear"></div><div id="slides"><ul><li><img src="slide1.gif" width="240" height="240" alt="Slide 1"/></li><li><img src="slide2.gif" width="240" height="240" alt="Slide 2"/></li><li><img src="slide3.gif" width="240" height="240" alt="Slide 3"/></li></ul><div class="clear"></div></div></div> CSS is a little bit complicated. 3. There are two new methods we are about to learn. After - Insert content after each of the matched elements.Before - Insert content before each of the matched elements. Conclusion Like this tutorials?
10 Superb Image Effects and Slider Tutorials with Jquery 10 Superb Image Effects and Sliders with Jquery and CSS. I haven’t been into jquery much but since i had to use it in one of my site i worked on one and i became a fan of jquery. that is why i have gathered a list of awesome jquery effects tutorial for images and sliders. All tutorials are gathered from various sites and are linked back. Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery This is an awesome thumbnail hover effect jquery tutorial. Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery This tutorial is my personal favorite, u can stylize your images with divs/boxes and make superb , very attractive effects by simple jquery. Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery) This is a very very handy and attractive master piece of jquery and css. AnythingSlider jQuery Plugin AnythingSlider is an attempt at bringing together the functionality of all of those previous sliders and adding new features. ImageSwitch A superb easy to use plugin which switches between images in a very attractive animated style.
browserling - interactive cross-browser testing 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.
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