Sliding Image Panels with CSS3 Today we'll show you how to create some neat sliding image panels with CSS only. The idea is to use background images for the panels and animate them when clicking on a label. We'll use radio buttons with labels and target the respective panels with the general sibling selector. View demo Download source Today we’ll show you how to create some neat sliding image panels with CSS only. The beautiful images are by Joanna Kustra and they are licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License. You might as well be interested in Filter Functionality with CSS3 where we have used a similar technique for filtering elements based on their type. Please note: the result of this tutorial will only work as intended in browsers that support CSS transitions and animations. The Markup The HTML will consist of three major parts: the radio buttons and the labels, the container with the panels and their “slices” for each image, and the titles. Let’s style this baby. The CSS Demos
CSS3 Dropdown Menu While I was coding the Notepad theme, I’ve learned some new CSS3 features and now I would like to share it with you. View the demo to see a Mac-like multi-level dropdown menu that I’ve created using border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow. It renders perfect on Firefox, Safari and Chrome. The dropdown also works on non-CSS3 compitable browsers such as IE7+, but the rounded corners and shadow will not be rendered. View Demo CSS3 Dropdown Preview The image below shows how the menu will look if CSS3 is not supported. One Gradient Image is Used A white-transparent image is used to achieve the gradient effect. The instensitiy of the gradient can be changed by shifting the background image up or down. CSS Code I’m not going to explain the CSS line by line. Update Apr 13 2010: Pure CSS Dropdown (No Image Used) The following demo used CSS gradient and IE gradient filter instead of the gradient image.
Demo | jQuery.popeye 2.1 | an inline lightbox alternative with slideshow x Note: To see the full potential of CSS3 styling (shadows, gradients, rounded corners, alpha transparency), please view this page in a modern webkit or mozilla browser (Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4, Opera 10.50, Chrome 4). Other browsers will degrade gracefully. Example 1 The first popeye-box uses the standard options: it floats to the left and opens to the right, its navigation and caption show on mouseover. By placing the navigation inside the stage area (where the image is displayed), we can get it to hover above the image. No need to read this, just dummy text ;-) Vivamus ut nisi id libero interdum pretium. View HTML code used in this example Example 2 The second popeye-box has the following user-defined options: direction: 'left' - open to the left. caption: false - do not display captions (even though the images have alt tags with text). navigation: 'permanent' - the navigation is always visible. The navigation stays fixed to the right of the image. View HTML code used in this example Donate
Create a Fun Animated Navigation Menu With Pure CSS In recent years jQuery has become the easiest and best supported way to implement simple animations online. JavaScript is exceptionally good at what it does and this article is in no way an argument against it. However, CSS3 offers a glimpse into a possible future where basic animations are performed with straight CSS completely independent of scripting. Today we’ll take a look at how to use CSS3 to create a fun and unique navigation menu that uses @font-face, transforms and transitions. Introduction Your website’s navigation can communicate a lot about your business or service. However, if you’re ever creating a site that doesn’t necessarily have to be so professional, the navigation provides a great place to have a little fun and insert some personality. To get a glimpse of what we’ll be building, take a look at the live demo. Click Here to View Demo The HTML To start off our project, paste in the following blank HTML5 template. Next, throw a simple unordered list into the body portion.
Spectacular image galleries made simple. CSS3 Menu and Navigation Tutorials All of the CSS3 navigation tutorials we have for you today are all fully functional and could easily be used on a live site. But we do prefer to think of them all as being more experimental and proof-of-concept rather than being a robust end-product (a sprinkle of jQuery always makes everything better!). What they do offer is an opportunity to roll-up your sleeves and delve into some ground-breaking code. Anyway, here they all are: Creative CSS3 Animated Menus The idea of this tutorial is to have a simple composition of elements, an icon, a main title and a secondary title, that will be animated on hover using CSS transitions and animations. CSS3 Animated Dropdown Menu With this tutorial you will learn how to build this awesome CSS3 animated dropdown menu with some pretty cool features. Creating a Cool CSS3 Dropdown Menu With this tutorial you will be shown how to create a multilevel CSS3 dropdown menu that will render perfectly with Firefox, Chrome and Safari. CSS3 Animated Menu
SIDEWAYS – jQuery fullscreen image gallery Last updated on Nov 20, 2010 Originally published on September 12, 2010 by malihu, under Templates & web apps. A simple, yet elegant fullscreen image gallery created with the jQuery library and CSS. The gallery features fullscreen images in various modes and custom scrollbars. SIDEWAYS image gallery is made by implementation of some previous scripts and tutorials posted on this blog and some (minor) CSS3. I’ve included the complete gallery code on page 2 of this post. Changelog▾ This work is released under the MIT License. Donating helps greatly in developing and updating free software and running this blog
Sliding JavaScript Dropdown Menu This script has been replaced by a new with multi-level support here. This lightweight JavaScript drop down menu script (~1.6kb) allows you to easily add smooth transitioning dropdowns to your website. This can be used for navigation, dropdown lists, info panels, etc. The script has been tested working in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera and Safari. You can have as many dropdowns on one page as you like. This script has been tested in all major browsers and is available free of charge for both personal or commercial projects under the creative commons license. Click here for the demo. Click here to download the source. Click here for a vertical flyout version of this menu. By Request: Slideup version demo. Update 4/28/2008 – I have updated the HTML and CSS to use a definition list and an unordered list in lieu of the previous div-based layout. The following two tabs change content below.
85 Awesome jQuery Slider Plugins Slider are very useful and increasingly popular web page elements used for highlighting important content. By using a jQuery slider plugin, one can create amazing HTML slider effects with fancy animations of content elements like text and images. jQuery takes care of the difficult aspects like browser support and typically when using jQuery plugins it can be done with very little coding effort. This is the reason why jQuery sliders and jQuery banner slideshow scripts have become very popular on most types of websites. They are are typically used to feature multiple products, news, video etc. without taking up a lot of space on the pages. In fact, we see sliders on most news and business websites today and they are placed on the most important location over the fold on the front page. The jQuery library has undoubtedly made the life of web developers easier and made it possible for non-experts to do fancy stuff themselves. Advertisement Article Index Camera Slider – MORE INFO
Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS Jun 02 2009 Studies show that top navigations tend to get the most visual attention when a user first visits a site. Having organized and intuitive navigation is key — and while most drop down menus may look aesthetically pleasing, developing them to degrade gracefully is also essential. In this tutorial I would like to go over how to create a sexy drop down menu that can also degrade gracefully. View Demo of Sexy Drop Down Menu Step1. First create an unordered list for your base top navigation. <ul class="topnav"><li><a href="#">Home</a></li><li><a href="#">Tutorials</a><ul class="subnav"><li><a href="#">Sub Nav Link</a></li><li><a href="#">Sub Nav Link</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="#">Resources</a><ul class="subnav"><li><a href="#">Sub Nav Link</a></li><li><a href="#">Sub Nav Link</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="#">About Us</a></li><li><a href="#">Advertise</a></li><li><a href="#">Submit</a></li><li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li></ul> Step2. Step3. jQuery Conclusion Homepage