The No-Pressure Introduction to CSS3 It's difficult to escape the hype surrounding CSS3 at the moment, yet it has created a divide in the community. If you read any blog post on the subject and it is flooded with comments by developers who feel they still cannot use CSS3 in their work. Rather than being encouraging the responses from the experts in our community can appear as aggressive and superior. Although they are correct in saying CSS3 can be used now, the decision must still fall to the individual, even if their opinions are based on inaccurate assumptions. In this article I'll try to cover some of the more widely adopted CSS3 advancements, showing you not only how to use them but also the support you will likely expect from the major browsers. Why We Can Use CSS3 Now The arguments as to why we cannot use CSS3 include such things as the specification not being finalised or that some elements of CSS3 are either poorly supported or not supported at all. Vendor Prefixes Vendor prefixes that are in use today are : Examples
SelectNav.js - responsive drop-down menu - pure JavaScript About SelectNav.js is a JavaScript plugin that lets you convert your website navigation into a select drop-down menu. Used together with media queries it helps you to create a space saving, responsive navigation for small screen devices. Inspired by TinyNav.js, it was rewritten from scratch to become jQuery independent and customizable. To see it in action just resize this page and observe the topbar. Features Independent - no external library or other dependecies Ligthweight - only 1.5KB minified and 0.8KB minified+gziped Customizable - to make it suit your needs Compatible - tested with IE 6+, Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 4+, Safari 3+, Mobile Safari iOS 3.2+, Android 2.3+ Browser, Opera Mobile, Opera Mini. Usage 1. <ul id="nav"><li><a href="homepage.html">Homepage</a></li><li><a href="about.html" class="active">About us</a></li><li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li></ul> Selectnav.js works with every navigation in form of ul or ol lists that follow the example above. 3. 4. Examples Result
Coin Slider: Image Slider with Unique Effects « Workshop After jqFancyTransitions I decided to release new jQuery image slider plugin with more unique transitions effects. I have ideas for new effects and after I didn’t find that somebody already implement that I create Coin Slider. Thanks to you and your comments Coin Slider have lot of features that jqFancyTransitions didn’t have at the beginning. Basically it’s a latest (and improved) version of jqFancyTransitions but with new ‘fancy’ transitions effects. jqFancyTransitions slice your images in stripes, while Coin Slider slice them in squares. While I was working on this I felt like I’m on college again. For rain effect I spent few rainy hours to built it and that’s why I gave him that name. How to use Download jQuery, Coin Slider javascript file and CSS file and include them on your page: Add slider content and create one div with an id and put images and image descriptions, similar to: At the end all you have to do is to call Coin Slider: Example List of all options Notes
Styling form controls with CSS, revisited Over two years ago, in September 2004, I posted an article called Styling form controls. My intention with that article (and its follow-up, Styling even more form controls) was to show that attempting to use CSS to make form controls look similar across browsers and operating systems in an exercise in futility. It simply cannot be done. Since discussions about applying CSS to form controls continuously crop up, new versions of browsers and operating systems, and entirely new browsers have been released since September 2004, it was time for an update. Because of all this I spent way too much time creating a total of 224 screenshots showing the effects of various CSS rules applied to form controls. I have created a demo page for each type of form control: Each page contains screenshots from each of the tested platforms, as well as a set of styled form controls that you can use to check the results in browsers that I did not include. So what does this experiment show?
CSS Refreshers: Borders Sure, we’re all familiar with borders. Is there anything new that could possibly be introduced? Well, I bet there’s quite a few things in this article that you never knew about! Not only can CSS3 be used to create rounded corners, but plain-ole' CSS can also be wrestled into displaying custom shapes. The Basics You’re likely familiar with the most basic use of borders. The above code will apply a 1px border to an element. In addition to passing a specific value to border-width, three keywords may alternatively be used: thin, medium, and thick. While it might initially seem unnecessary to ever make use of the long-hand form, there are a handful of cases when it’s advantageous, such as when you need to update some aspect of a border when a designated event occurs. Perhaps you need to change the color of a border when the user hovers over a specific element. A more elegant and DRY approach would be to specifically update the border-color property. Border-Radius Beyond the Basics Multiple Borders
jquery-complexify Websites have a responsibility to users to accurately tell them how good a password is, and this is not an easy job. If your password is 8 characters long and only formed of lower case characters, you need to make it better, perhaps by adding a number or more characters. If your password is 25 characters long but happens to not contain a number, you shouldn't be forced by a password security policy to add one, you clearly have a very secure password. Complexify aims to provide a good measure of password complexity for websites to use both for giving hints to users in the form of strength bars, and for casually enforcing a minimum complexity for security reasons. Note: I use the term 'casually' because this is only client-side validation and anyone could turn it off. Complexity Rating Complexify's default settings will enforce a minimum level of complexity that would mean brute-forcing should take ~600 years on a commodity desktop machine. Unicode Try it out: How do I use it? Complexify Ports
Blueberry - Un semplice, fluido, reattivo dispositivo di scorrimento immagine jQuery. What is Blueberry? Blueberry is an experimental opensource jQuery image slider plugin which has been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts. A brief history With the popularity of smart phones and tablet devices responsive/fluid web layouts have become an important part of modern web design. Working on a new project I decided to use the 1140px grid from cssgrid.net. So, I decided to start writing a basic plugin with the aim of making it suitable for responsive web design. The goal The hope is that I can at least nudge developers of more popular slider plugins to think about responsive web design, and make their plugins compatible. In the mean time, I aim to continue to develop this plugin (time permitting), squashing some of the bugs and implementing more advanced features. Check out the contribute section to find out how you can help. Frequently Asked Questions Why is it called Blueberry? Help make Blueberry better Known issues Wishlist Buy me a beer
CSS: Getting Into Good Coding Habits Set for printing In this article we will look at what might be considered best practices, or perhaps, good coding habits to get into. To begin, we will look at removing any defaults that a browser may add to our elements and then look at how we can explicitly set the values we want. If you are new to CSS, you may want to bring yourself up to speed by reading a series of tutorials I wrote called An introduction to CSS. The beauty of CSS is the control it gives us. We can use CSS in three ways. Inline CSS Embedded CSS External CSS Inline CSS is the least flexible of the three options listed above. <p style="margin: 20px;" >My paragraph text</p> The inline style in Listing 1 above is highlighted. This situation is further complicated when we need to make changes to our code. Embedded CSS is somewhat of a halfway house between inline styles and an external style sheet. p { margin: 20px; An embedded style sheet is contained in an opening and closing pair, and it exists in the head of your page.
Une feuille de styles de base pour bien démarrer vos projets Avec cette astuce, je vous propose un outil et une méthodologie pour partir du bon pied lorsque vous attaquez les styles CSS d'un nouveau projet. Un outil? → une feuille de styles CSS qui corrige ou définit les styles des principaux éléments de vos pages. (Yay, du code à copier-coller!) Quels objectifs? Utiliser une feuille de styles de base, quelle qu'elle soit, répond à deux objectifs principaux: Gommer certaines différences entre les styles par défaut des navigateurs. Notre feuille de styles de base Le code CSS suivant constitue la partie "reset" de la feuille de styles que nous utilisons chez Alsacréations pour nos projets professionnels. L'ensemble de ce projet de "framework CSS" minimaliste se nomme KNACSS est est disponible en libre téléchargement. Rappel : n'employez pas ce reset CSS sans avoir parcouru au minimum les indications laissées dans le code complet commenté. Où placer ces styles? Le plus simple est sans doute de placer ces styles dans un fichier séparé. Bonus
34 Responsive Grid System TouchTouch – A Touch Optimized Gallery Plugin Martin Angelov I want to share a little experiment with Tutorialzine readers – TouchTouch. It is a jQuery plugin that turns a collection of photos on a webpage into a touch-friendly mobile gallery. Highlights Smooth CSS3 animations and transitions;A responsive CSS interface that fills the screen and responds to changes in device orientation;Preloads photos only when they are needed;Supports swiping through photos;Displays onscreen arrows and listens for arrow key presses on desktop browsers; TouchTouch relies entirely on CSS3 for animations, which means that transitions are extra smooth on mobile devices (naturally, this also means that you won’t see any on older browsers). On the desktop, you get that same responsive interface and smooth animations. jQuery touch-optimized gallery How to use Using it is simple. After you do all of this, simply call the gallery as a regular jQuery plugin: $(function(){ $('#thumbs a').touchTouch(); }); Presenting Bootstrap Studio Learn more by Martin Angelov
John Manoogian III » Blog Archive » (The Only) Ten Things To Kno AKA, “Secrets of the patented JM3 Gasbag Model™” - a getting-started list to make sense of CSS. [2,547 diggs and counting.] The Point of CSS is to use clean, simple HTML in your page, then write CSS “rules” that style the objects on your page. The page stays clean and looks cool, and your HTML page works on both mobile devices and regular browsers. That’s the point of CSS. But The Art of CSS is quickly and easily referring to the right objects in your page from your CSS rules. The act of matching CSS rules to HTML tags is like a conversation: both sides need to be clear and in sync with each other, or they’ll talk over each other and you’ll get a headache from all the yelling.General or Specific Matching: suppose you want to style an **<h1>** header in your page. You can combine the above rules in different ways, too; to style all <h1>tags of type "barleymash" inside of forms of type "magicform", use css rule **form.magicform h1.barleymash { Hacks are stupid.
21 outils et générateurs CSS pour développeurs web Les générateurs et outils CSS sont de plus en plus nombreux sur la toile, et facilitent la tâche des développeurs web en leur faisant gagner un gain de temps considérable, en particulier ceux qui génèrent du CSS3. Voici une liste non exhaustive de 21 ressources CSS à connaître et à tester dès maintenant ! 1. Bear CSS Bear CSS est un service qui permet de générer une feuille de style à partir d’un code HTML en prenant en compte les éléments et le balisage de la structure du document (id et classes CSS). 2. CSS Type Set est un service qui permet de gérer la mise en forme d’un texte dans une interface simple et intuitive. 3. Border Radius est un générateur déstiné uniquement à la propriété CSS3 border-radius qui permet de créer des coins arrondis sur un élément HTML. 4. 5. 6. 7. CSS3 Please est probablement l’un des tous meilleurs générateurs CSS3. 8. 9.