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 [...]
It’s supposed to be used by 2 people taking turns (click twice for the other sign). Basic idea: It uses hidden checkboxes for the states (indeterminate means empty, checked means X, not checked means O) and labels for the visible part When it starts, a little script (the only js in the demo) sets the [...]
I’ve been using this trick for quite a while, but I never thought to blog about it. However, I recently realized that it might not be as common as I thought, so it might be a good idea to document it in a blog post. If you follow the discussions on www-style, you might have [...]
The original idea belongs to André Luís, but I think it could be improved to be much less verbose. André’s solution is like this: /* one item */ li:nth-child(1):nth-last-child(1) { width: 100%; } /* two items */ li:nth-child(1):nth-last-child(2), li:nth-child(2):nth-last-child(1) { width: 50%; } /* three items */ li:nth-child(1):nth-last-child(3), li:nth-child(2):nth-last-child(2), li:nth-child(3):nth-last-child(1) { width: 33.3333%; } /* [...]
I was doing some research today about how people explain the CSS3 structural* pseudo classes and I stumbled upon this demo by CSS tricks: http://css-tricks.com/examples/nth-child-tester/ I thought the idea is awesome, but lacks a few features: It doesn’t use the native browser algorithm for selecting the elements. Granted, it’s not that tough to code your [...]
I read today CSS Ninja‘s (Ryan Sheddon’s) brilliant new technique about the creation of custom checkboxes and radio buttons with CSS alone. The only thing that bugged me about it was something he pointed himself out as well: This technique has only 1 drawback I can think of, IE support is not a drawback for [...]
In this post I’m going to share some tips to increase a site’s usability that are very quick to implement. Not all of them are cross-browser, but they are the icing on the cake anyway, nobody would mind without them.