Articles tagged “css”
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How to implement SRI in your build process
Imagine getting a call from a customer who says your website is serving malware. Your heart drops, you start sweating, and then the tweets start pouring in. Something is up. You find out your systems have not been tampered with. In fact, it was your CDN provider that got hacked, and the scripts you included […]
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Understanding the CSS box model for inline elements
In a web page, every element is rendered as a rectangular box. The box model describes how the element’s content, padding, border, and margin determine the space occupied by the element and its relation to other elements in the page. Depending on the element’s display property, its box may be one of two types: a […]
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Click highlights with CSS transitions
When you watch screencasts from time to time you’ll see that some software adds growing dots to the clicks the person explaining does to make them more obvious. Using CSS transitions this can be done very simply in JavaScript, too. Check out the following demo on JSFiddle and you see what we mean. When you […]
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Happy Pi Day!
As today is Pi Day have you ever realised that rotating 3.14 180 degrees almost spells “PI.E”? JSFiddle demo. And yes, Firefox 11 is now official, bring on the 3D transforms.
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Getting you started for the CSS 3D transform Dev Derby (15 minute screencast)
This month’s Mozilla Dev Derby is about CSS 3D transformations and as a reminder and inspiration we thought it a good idea to give you a walk-through of a simple demo: a rotating cube with content on each side. That’s simple? Yes it is! Check the video to see the result: You can also see […]
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A simple image gallery using only CSS and the :target selector
Back in the old days of web development and when CSS2 got support I always cringed at “CSS only” demos as a lot of them were hacky to say the least. With CSS growing up and having real interaction features it seems to me though that it is time to reconsider as – when you […]
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Hidden Gems of HTML5: classList
If you are a web developer, you surely must know how handy it is to dynamically change the class attribute on an element. The benefits this technique are quite a few: You leave any changes in the look and feel to the CSS You avoid having to loop lots of elements as you can allow […]
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Screencast: 3D CSS rollovers and 3D CSS tester
CSS 3D transforms as supported in the latest Aurora allow us to do some nice effects that in the past were only possible in Flash or with a lot of trickery using skewing and filters. I was asked to show a small demo the other day and thought it would be fun to spice up […]
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Screencast: CSS 3D rollover with fallback for older browsers
Here’s a quick screencast how to create a 3D image rollover and still give a useful interface to browsers that do not support 3D transforms. If you want to see the effect in Firefox get the latest Aurora or Nightly. Check the following video to see what it looks like (first with a browser without […]
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Detecting and generating CSS animations in JavaScript
When writing of the hypnotic spiral demo the issue appeared that I wanted to use CSS animation when possible but have a fallback to rotate an element. As I didn’t want to rely on CSS animation I also considered it pointless to write it by hand but instead create it with JavaScript when the browser […]