Posts Tagged ‘css’

CSS gradients

June 6th, 2010 by JorisO | No Comments | Filed in CSS3, Faster websites, Front-end development

CSS gradients promise a great leap forward for the graphical capabilities of CSS. A CSS gradient is in fact a browser-generated image, consisting of smooth fades between several colors. Letting CSS create these will decrease download times and allows for many new interesting DHTML possibilities.

Both linear and radial gradients are supported by the new CSS specifications. At the time of writing CSS gradients are supported by Mozilla and Webkit browsers but Internet explorer offers something similar in it’s usual non-compliant manner.
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CSS Text shadow

May 23rd, 2010 by JorisO | 1 Comment | Filed in CSS3, Front-end development

CSS 3 allows you to add drop shadows to text. The text-shadow property’s syntax doesn’t require vendor specific prefixes. That means this method for adding shadows behind text is finalized.

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CSS3 rounded corners

April 3rd, 2010 by JorisO | 1 Comment | Filed in CSS3, Front-end development

CSS 3 finally delivers specifications for the rounding of corners. CSS 3 allows you to specify a radius for the corners of an element. This offers the promise of no longer having to use awkward rounded corner / border hacks based on images or CSS / JavaScript for such a simple graphic effect.

At the time of writing Internet Explorer’s latest version (8) still doesn’t support this feature in any way. Also CSS vendor prefixes are still necessary for Mozilla (FireFox) and WebKit (Safari/Chrome) based browsers. Surely the vendor-specific prefixes and syntactical quirks will also disappear once the application of this CSS3 feature becomes more commonplace.

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CSS 3 drop shadow

February 13th, 2010 by JorisO | No Comments | Filed in CSS3, Front-end development

CSS 3 allows us to add drop shadows using the box-shadow directive. The box shadow directive is for creating drop shadows on box-model elements, eliminating the need for background images or JavaScript solutions to achieve this effect. The box shadow directive is not for adding shadows to text. To add drop shadow to text nodes you should use the the text-shadow directive.

Box-shadow takes 3 lengths and a color as it’s attributes, the lengths are:

  1. the horizontal offset of the shadow, positive means the shadow will be on the right of the box, a negative offset will put the shadow on the left of the box;
  2. the vertical offset, a negative one means the box-shadow will be on top of the box, a positive one means the shadow will be below the box;
  3. the blur radius, if set to 0 the shadow will be sharp, the higher the number, the more blurred it will be.

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