CSS Tutorials
Replace NOBR Tags with CSS
This is just a simple tip for those still clinging to NOBR HTML tags. The NOBR tag, for those who haven't seen them before, prevent a selection of text from being "broken" into multiple lines. It looks something like this: While NOBR tags still work...
Add Events to the PHP Calendar
In a previous blog post I detailed how to create a basic calendar using PHP and then showed you how to add controls to that calendar. This post will detail how you may efficiently pull events from a MySQL table and display those...
Create a Sexy Persistent Header with Opacity Using MooTools or jQuery
I've been working with the Magento eCommerce solution a lot lately and I've taken a liking to a technique they use with the top bar within their administrative control panel. When the user scrolls below a specified threshold, the top bar becomes attached to the...
Image Reflection with jQuery and MooTools
One subtle detail that can make a big difference on any web design is the use of image reflections. Using them too often can become obnoxious but using reflections on large, "masthead" images is a classy enhancement. Unfortunately creating image reflections within your...
Introducing MooTools ScrollSide
This post is a proof of concept post -- the functionality is yet to be perfected. Picture this: you've found yourself on a website that uses horizontal scrolling instead of vertical scrolling. It's an artistic site so you accept that the site scrolls left to right.
Introducing MooTools ScrollSidebar
How many times are you putting together a HTML navigation block or utility block of elements that you wish could be seen everywhere on a page? I've created a solution that will seamlessly allow you to do so: ScrollSidebar. ScrollSidebar allows you...
Better Pull Quotes with MooTools
Chris Coyier authored a post titled Better Pull Quotes: Don't Repeat Markup a while back. In his post he created great-looking pull quotes without repeating any content -- instead he uses jQuery to dynamically create the pull quotes. The following is the...
AJAX For Evil: Spyjax with jQuery
Last year I wrote a popular post titled AJAX For Evil: Spyjax when I described a technique called "Spyjax": Spyjax, as I know it, is taking information from the user's computer for your own use — specifically their browsing habits. By using CSS and JavaScript, I...
Search Type Options with MooTools
Advanced search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and Bing have discovered the obvious: one type of search isn't good enough. The big search engines offer web search, video search, code search, blog search, image search, and any other type of search you can think of.
Create a Sprited Navigation Menu Using CSS and MooTools
CSS sprites are all the rage these days. And why shouldn't be? They're easy to implement, have great upside, and usually take little effort to create. Dave Shea wrote an epic CSS sprites navigation post titled CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time.