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Created by James on January 11, 2011 22:08:26
Last update: February 03, 2012 11:23:25
By default Firefox puts a dotted line box around the link or button label when you click them. Sometimes it's annoying and makes your sexy buttons look ugly. You can get rid of the dotted lines for links with outline:none in CSS, but that doesn't work for buttons.
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For buttons you need " button::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; } ":
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I've also seen this:
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For more information :
Remove Button Focus Outline Using CSS
Created by James on February 02, 2012 16:09:05
Last update: February 02, 2012 16:09:17
flowplayer is another way to embed Flash in a web page. The code looks like this:
<object width="6400" height="380" data="swf/flowpl...
You need to download two swf files:
http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.1.swf
http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer.controls-3.2.0.swf
Created by James on January 26, 2012 21:23:56
Last update: January 26, 2012 21:23:56
In an HTML page, elements can overlap because of position styles. When there's an overlap, elements coming later in the HTML code are displayed on the top. This can be altered by specifying z-index in the CSS. Elements with higher z-index are placed on the top.
However , z-index only works for elements that are not static positioned. Static positioned elements are always at the bottom compared to relative , fixed and absolute positioned elements.
This is a test page:
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Effects of z-index can be tested by adding it to the elements, for example:
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Created by James on March 13, 2011 13:44:37
Last update: March 21, 2011 11:30:55
This is a jQuery input control that lets you enter any number of input rows of name and value pairs.
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Created by James on February 14, 2011 12:10:19
Last update: February 14, 2011 20:22:05
I have long noticed that IE8 displays a "broken page" icon while showing my web pages, but didn't pay much attention. Since the world in general considers IE to be broken, it's not so unlogical for IE to see much of the world as broken. Until one day I noticed that the Google home page was not "broken". Then I thought may be I should fix my pages also. So I moused over the "broken page" icon, and this is what I saw: Compatibility View: websites designed for older browsers will often look better, and problems such as out-of-place menus, images, or text will be corrected. Very descriptive indeed! Older browsers? Such as Firefox 1.5? When it comes to MS products, I often had better...
Created by James on July 04, 2009 16:30:40
Last update: January 11, 2011 21:21:59
If you are looking for a solution for a progress bar, I direct you to the following resources: Bare Naked App provides a simple and elegant solution based on pure CSS with two images. You control the percentage of completion through the background-position attribute of the CSS. HTML:
<img src="/images/percentImage.png" alt="... CSS: img.percentImage { background: white url(/imag... Images: (percentImage.png) (percentImage_back.png) WebAppers extended the above solution with JavaScript. They also added several colored images: JQuery UI has a built-in progress bar widget. However, if you want to get to understand some of the foobar needed to get CSS to work (in general) through this example, stay with me for the rest of this note. Initially I was thinking, a progress bar should be easy: just make...
Created by James on October 11, 2010 19:01:28
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:38:56
Test page (click the "new window" icon to see the transition):
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Created by James on September 07, 2010 03:11:39
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:28:33
I didn't know how hard it was to vertically align something to the middle until I had to do it. An excellent writeup about the various techniques (or should I say hacks?) to achieve this is here: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/vertical-centering-with-css/ Here I present a technique with the help of jQuery. To make it simple, what I'm doing is to display a single line of text in the middle of the page instead of at the top. The markup is made simple because the logic is moved to JavaScript. There are two requirements to make this work: The parent container uses relative positioning jQuery code added to re-position the content with absolute positioning
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <title>Vert... For some reason, the following code did not work although...
Created by James on June 22, 2010 18:46:31
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:24:42
This is the page:
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It renders like this in IE 7:
However, when you try to scroll to the bottom of the dialog, IE takes long time to respond, the it messes up the title bar:
Everything works fine if you take away the relative position in CSS:
<style type="text/css">
#dialog .input {
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Created by James on July 06, 2010 15:27:28
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:20:03
This example shows three jQuery icons with hover effects.
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Hint: mouseover an icon on the ThemeRoller page to get the CSS classname.
