- Rounded corners using Javascript without images. What I really wanted to do was add a dark burnt orange border around my definition box on my home page, but when I tried to do so the
Rico.Corner.round('a2d_description', {corners:'all', color:'#4c4c4c', border:'#ffa500', bgColor:'#ffffff', blend:'#ffa500', compact:false});
- Setting transparency using CSS that works in Safari, Firefox and IE - I used this for dialogs - click on the A2D logo and a description comes up in a dialog.
opacity: 0.5; /* ------> Mac: Safari */
-moz-opacity: 0.5; /* -----> Firefox */
filter:alpha(opacity=50); /* ---> IE */
- Creating a box punch is a standard printer technique, but I like the effect so I added it to the same dialog that explains how I created the A2D logo. The CSS to enable this was very simple:
div#punch_logo {
background-color: white;
float: left;
text-align: center;
border: 1px solid black;
border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px;
margin: -1px 1em 0.5em -1px;
padding-left: 3px;
}
Where the HTML looks like this:
<div id="punch_logo"><img src="images/a2d.png"></div>
- Drop shadow for text, which I used for the © copright notice at the bottom on the A2D pages. The CSS is very complicate because of browser issues, but I like the code that works in Safari:
text-shadow: #4c4c4c 3px 3px 3px; /* color, horizontal offset, vertical offset, blur */
- Dynamic Drive ToolTip II is a nice example of how to create custom tool-tips, hover help, balloon help or whatever you would like to call it. It is used for the A2D logo and for the drawn arches within the toolbar.
Does good design really make a difference? Implementing software often has no relation to life outside work, where chaos seems to be the rule rather than the exception. You may not be able to control life, but let's not practice chaos when developing software.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
CSS tricks
Today I have been using a couple of very nice CSS tricks in my recent contracts, so I re-created them from scratch on the Attentive 2 Design web site:
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