CSS Decorative Gallery. Did you like my previous CSS tutorial on how to create gradient text effects? I'm using the same trick to show you how to decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source images. The trick is very simple. All you need is an extra <span> tag and apply a background image to create the overlaying effect. It is very easy and flexible — see my demos with over 20 styles, from a simple image icon to a rounded corner to a masked layer (both decorative and complex).
View Demo Gallery Download Demo ZIP What Are The Benefits Of This CSS Trick? Saves Time — You don't have to manually create the decorative template in Photoshop and export the individual image. Basic Concept (see demo) You need to insert an extra <span> tag within the <div> tag, with which we'll apply a background image to create the overlaying effect. Then in the CSS, the key point you have to remember is: specify the div element to position:relative and the span element to position:absolute. IE PNG Hack Look and Feel. DD_roundies: Code-only rounded HTML boxes. 2011/4/8: It is high time I update the documentation here. This plugin got as far as supporting IE8 Release Candidate 1.
That was a while ago. Things have changed. I spent some time away from the project before IE8 final was released. Foolishly, I never wrote anything to this effect because I'd hoped to give it a new college try at some point. Turns out I like riding my bicycle during my free time more than maintaining this project. That said, IE9 is supposedly offering itself as an update. This was a neat experiment, but note that I never took the version numbers out of "alpha" mode. If I were truly sore on this subject, I would take this page down; I will leave it up for posterity instead. This is a Javascript library that makes creation of rounded-corner HTML boxes easier, with a focus on Internet Explorer. IE is supported through use of VML. Since Opera doesn't currently (time of writing: 2009-01-01) support border-radius, this library doesn't do anything in Opera.
Table of Contents. DD_belatedPNG: Medicine for your IE6/PNG headache! 2011/4/8: This is no longer an actively maintained project. I apologize, I must move on with current events. This is a Javascript library that sandwiches PNG image support into IE6 without much fuss. You can use PNGs as the SRC of an <IMG/> element or as a background-image property in CSS. If you attempt the latter, you will find that, unlike with vanilla usage of AlphaImageLoader, background-position and background-repeat work as intended. As a bonus, "fixed" elements will respond to a commonly used set of Javascript style assignments, as well as the A:hover pseudo-class. Table of Contents Long story short, this uses Microsoft's implementation of VML instead of Microsoft's AlphaImageLoader filter.
The intended implementation is pretty easy: Download a copy of the DD_belatedPNG Javascript file - please do not hotlink mine, I am on a shared host. Due to popular demand, here is some documentation for how to "fix" elements on a pick-and-choose basis. (Based on the normal usage approach) Video Screencasts. #130: First Moments with Grunt There are all these tasks that we need to do as front end developers. Concatenate and compress our files. Run our preprocessors. Optimize images. . #127: Basics of JavaScript Templating A template is a chunk of HTML that you need to inject onto the page. . #126: Using Modernizr Should Modernizr be part of every modern web project? #124: A Modern Web Designer’s Workflow This is a presentation I gave at conferences in late 2012 and early 2013. It talks … #121: The Right CMS is a Customized One The perfect CMS to suite the needs of any non-trivial content-oriented website does not come out-of-the-box.
. #119: Let’s Answer Forum Posts! In this screencast we live answer more forums posts with no planning whatsoever. . #117: Let’s Attempt To Do a “Pull Request” I’ve never in my life submitted a “Pull Request” on GitHub. . #115: Don’t Overthink It Grids Even if the layout of a site is simple as a main content area on the left and a sidebar on the right, that’s a grid. CSS-Tricks. CSS Dock Menu.