Best CSS Designs - Where the Best CSS Designs Meet CSS3 Patterns Gallery Browser support The patterns themselves should work on Firefox 3.6+, Chrome, Safari 5.1, Opera 11.10+ and IE10+. However, implementation limitations might cause some of them to not be displayed correctly even on those browsers (for example at the time of writing, Gecko is quite buggy with radial gradients). Also, this gallery won’t work in Firefox 3.6 and IE10, even though they support gradients, due to a JavaScript limitation. Submission guidelines If you have a new pattern to submit, please send a pull request. Does it present a new technique? The Float Model Problem Float model? What's that? Okay, here is a simple test concerning how static elements interact with floats. According to the W3C specifications, when a floated element is directly followed by a static element (one that is normally flowed), then first, the float will be displayed against the left edge of the containing element (in this case the 'body' element), and then the static element will also display against that same edge, and at the same vertical height as the float. The float should overlay the static element, unless the static element has a left margin that moves it out to the right, and out from behind the float. Details of the test The green bordered box (div#left) is floated left in the 'body', and is followed by div#static (purple box). But, because div#static is width defined, browser variance is fully evident. Why this matters IE6 is not IE5.5 However, IE6 is different. What does this mean? Close call in Norway There was recently a disturbing turn of events. Last thoughts
How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3 In this last period on PV.M Garage we have described many trends of the modern Web Design and many techniques for creating stunning and impressive web sites. In one of our tutorials we learned how to realize a nice 3D ribbon and how to play with the drop shadow in Photoshop to simulate depth in a web design layout. This is a widespread trends in recent web design: creating a 3D perception in a website and simulating a “world” in three dimensions are two great ways for the designers to play with their skills. Thanks to useful graphic softwares (2D) we can easily create 3D elements, like ribbons and shadows, but we can also reproduce 3D scene using perspective, focus, color shading and opacity. DesignM.ag Blogof.FrancescoMugnai.com Yoast.com From-The-Couch.com Wait, wait, wait. Sure? We Want to Make 3D Elements Without Images There are some properties of the CSS3 languages that can help us to accomplish this mission. background: rgba(196,89,30,0.65); How To Make a CSS Based 3D Layout <!
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HTML Kit for more than editing HTML Accessible star rating widget with pure CSS For ages, we couldn’t utilize the sibling combinators (~ and +) to ease the pain of creating star rating widgets, because of this stupid Webkit bug. Nowadays, not only it’s fixed, but the fix has already propagated to Chrome and Safari 5.1. So, we can at least use the sibling combinator to make coloring the stars easier. But can we use no JavaScript for a rating widget and make it just with CSS? Actually, we can. Of course, you’d still need JS to attach an event handler if you want the votes to be registered through AJAX, but that’s not part of the rating widget per se (it could still work as part of a regular form). What’s best is that it’s fully keyboard accessible (focus and then use keyboard arrows) and screen reader accessible (although VoiceOver will also pronounce the generated stars, but that won’t happen if you use images instead of unicode stars). So, here it is:
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