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Breadcrumb Navigation with CSS Triangles
Published by Chris Coyier Did you know you can make triangles with pure CSS? It's pretty easy. You just make a block level element with zero width and height, a colored border on one side, and transparent borders on the two adjacent sides. They are fun for all kinds of things, like little arrow sticking out from speech bubbles, navigation pointers, and more. Often times these are just visual flourishes, undeserving of dedicated markup.
Case Study: Getting Hardboiled with CSS3 2D Transforms
This is part of a series of guest posts covering tips and tricks for working with CSS. These techniques, along with web fonts, make rich interactive sites achievable with simple and accessible standards-based markup and CSS. Today’s guest post was written by Andy Clarke, author of Hardboiled Web Design . In this example we’ll use CSS3 two-dimensional transforms to add realism to a row of hardboiled private detectives’ business cards. There are a number of transform properties we can use, including:
CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions - Smashing Magazine
Although CSS isn’t that difficult, useful CSS techniques are not easy to find. Sometimes finding a cross-browser solution might take time, but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Other designers may have had the same problem in the past and thus the main goal of this round-up is to share with you a goldmine of new techniques which you will hopefully find very useful and valuable. We also hope that these tutorials and articles will help you solve common design problems and find new ways of approaching tricky CSS issues.
This is part of a series of guest posts covering tips and tricks for working with fonts on the web. Today’s post was written by Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits. A few years ago I gave a talk about why a button made a great place to bring in type from a branding element (such as a logo). My point was that if the type in your logo was an image, and stylish buttons were also often images, then why not align the fonts in both to bring some cohesiveness to the typography. This was probably four years ago, and we’ve come a long way since. Now, in certain situations, CSS can replace the inflexible image buttons we used in the past.