CSS Custom Cursors

The cursor property specifies the type of cursor to be displayed when pointing on an element. Some CSS properties are animatable, meaning that they can be used in animations and transitions. read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

Animatable properties can change gradually from one value to another, like size, numbers, percentage and color.

Now, when you’d like to customize a cursor, and CSS lets you do it quite easily! read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

 

Read full article @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

Animated aquarium with pure CSS

Here is a pure CSS experimental work to create a aquarium. Image / javascript hasn’t been used for aquarium or it’s animation. I have used jQuery only for random air-bubbles. All these animation is created by Pure CSS. Some times ago, I had written a article about “Animated bubbles upwards continuously with pure CSS“. You can also use this trick for air-bubbles.
read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

For Creating Aquarium’s water, sand, rocks and plants few lines of HTML required.

The HTML

<div class="bubbles"></div>

<div class="ground"></div>
<div class="rock_1"></div>
<div class="rock_2"></div>
<div class="rock_3"></div>
<div class="rock_4"></div>
<div class="rock_5"></div>
<div class="rock_6"></div>
<div class="rock_7"></div>

<div class="plant_1_wrap">
    <div class="plant_1"></div>
    <div class="plant_2"></div>
    <div class="plant_3"></div>
</div>
<div class="plant_2_wrap">
    <div class="plant_4"></div>
    <div class="plant_5"></div>
</div>

Now, its CSS turn. I had written about 1040 lines only in CSS for creating these elements.
read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

Animated bubbles upwards continuously with pure CSS

Here is a pure CSS experimental work to create floating bubbles without using JavaScript. These animated bubbles are also with popping effect. All these animation is created by Pure CSS.

For our little demo, we use a simple image for the conical flask and then create the bubbles entirely with markup and CSS. read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

The HTML

<div id="beaker">
  <span class="bubble">
    <span class="glow"> </span>
  </span>
</div>

With our bubbles all made, now we need them to act like bubbles. We could use JavaScript but that’s no fun. Just use CSS! read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

Html IMG vs CSS Background-image

Image – Useful Tips

An image can be used in a webpage for two regions,

1) Image =  for content use, on the other hand, tend to change frequently. New images are uploaded often, users change their profile images and photo galleries, etc.

2) Background Image = for design. I.e. logos, button images, links with images, etc. tend to stay the same. They’re only changed if designer want to redesign.

The way I tend to think about this is, do I want the image to appear on all screen sizes, on all devices, with CSS turned either on or off? Do I want the image to be “indexed” by Google and Facebook. If the answer is yes to all or any of these questions, then usually the image is “content” and you should use an IMG tag.

If you want a different image to display at different screen sizes (or no image at all on certain devices), or if you’re happy for the image to not appear on a print out, or you’re happy for the image to not appear if CSS is turned off, then usually the image is “design” and you should use a background image.

Note: If an HTML file contains ten images – eleven files are required to display the page right. Loading images takes time, so my best advice is: Use images carefully.

Note: When a web page is loaded, it is the browser, at that moment, that actually gets the image from a web server and inserts it into the page. Therefore, make sure that the images actually stay in the same spot in relation to the web page, otherwise your visitors will get a broken link icon. The broken link icon is shown if the browser cannot find the image.
read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

Proper uses of IMG & Background-image

1. Use IMG if you intend to have people print your page and you want the image to be included by default. 
   
2. Use IMG (with alt text) when the image has an important semantic meaning, such as a warning icon. This ensures that the meaning of the image can be communicated in all user-agents, including screen readers.

Change an input’s HTML5 placeholder color with CSS

Today, We will play with some more interesting CSS style properties for HTML5 INPUT placeholder styling. Let’s explore, how to style placeholder text within INPUT elements with some unique CSS code. In previous articles, we have already covered some beautiful CSS effects on INPUT [type=button] and Input [type=text].
read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

What is Placeholder?

The placeholder attribute specifies a short hint that describes the expected value of an input field (e.g. a sample value or a short description of the expected format). The short hint is displayed in the input field before the user enters a value. The placeholder attribute works with the following input types: text, search, url, tel, email, and password.  The placeholder attribute is new in HTML5 read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

There are three different ways of implementations: pseudo-elements, pseudo-classes, and nothing read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

CSS Vendor Prefixes or CSS3 browser prefixes

CSS vendor prefixes or CSS browser prefixes are a way for browser makers to add support for new CSS features in a sort of testing and experimentation period. Browser prefixes are used to add new features that may not be part of a formal specification and to implement features in a specification that hasn’t been finalized. read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

The CSS browser prefixes are:

• Android: -webkit-
• Chrome: -webkit-
• Firefox: -moz-
• Internet Explorer: -ms-
• iOS: -webkit-
• Opera: -o-
• Safari: -webkit-

In most cases, to use a more advanced CSS style property, you take the standard CSS property and add the prefix above for each browser. read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

3D Parallax effect with CSS, javascript or jQuery

Parallax effect is a long-known and widely used animation effect. Lately, the parallax effect has become a wide-spread and quite a trend element in web design, often referred to as “parallax scrolling”. Internet if full on many great examples of application of this effect in web design. As I planned to create a cool parallax animated background, my first goal was to write the shortest and simplest code to achieve maximum awesomeness! I’ll show you how I did it. In this tutorial, I’ll teach you the simplest parallax scrolling technique. Here, I am going to introduce you, a most flexible/responsive slider i.e. Parallaxfx_DG. It is so easy and useful. I have decided that I will post a page dedicated to this slider with it’s features and API later.
read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

The idea of the parallax effect it in web design is built around giving a page depth by using several layers of images, all moving at different speeds in response to movement of the mouse or mouse scroller, so that a viewer get a full sense of 3D on the page. Parallax scrolling is an interesting technique, where, as you scroll, the background images translate slower than the content in the foreground, creating the illusion of 3D depth. read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/ …

Javascript

I have created a JavaScript plugin for this parallax effect. Plugin writes HTML,  its attributes with CSS animation effect in background read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/….

CSS Techniques – Absolute Horizontal And Vertical Centering In CSS

We’ve all seen margin: 0 auto; for horizontal centering, but margin: auto;has refused to work for vertical centering… until now! But actually (spoiler alert!)

I’m not the pioneer of this method, and it may even be a common technique, however, most vertical centering articles never mention it and I had never seen it until I dug through the comments section of  read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

1. Absolute Center

.Absolute-Center {
  margin: auto;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0;
}

ADVANTAGES:

• Cross-browser (including IE8-10)
• No special markup, minimal styles
• Responsive with percentages and min-/max-
• Use one class to center any content…   read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…
  

CSS3 Inheritance Tips and Tricks – inherit, initial & unset

It’s easy to overlook the cascading features of style-sheets. Most designers/developers are aware of the inherit keyword but there are a few new inheritance features in CSS3 you may not be aware of…  read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

property: inherit;

The inherit keyword means “use whatever value is assigned to my parent”. If no value was explicitly defined on the parent element, the browser works up the DOM tree until the property is found. Ultimately, it ends at the browser  read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

Javascript or jQuery Fullscreen browser window – Html5 technology

The new html5 technology – fullscreen API gives us an easy way to present a web page content in full-screen mode. We are about to give you detailed information about the fullscreen mode. Just try to imagine about all possible advantages which you can get using this technology – full-screen photo albums, videos, and even games. But before we describe this new technology, I have to note that this technology is experimental, and not all the browsers support it.
read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…

Starting the full-screen mode

Due to the fact that this mode is supported by different browsers differently, we have to foresee all the cases: read more @ http://www.css-jquery-design.com/…