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CSS Sprites2: It's JavaScript Time
In 2004, Dave Shea took the CSS rollover where it had never gone before. Now he takes it further still—with a little help from jQuery. Say hello to hover animations that respond to a user’s behavior in ways standards-based sites never could before.
Shea, Dave. List Apart, A (2008). Articles>Web Design>CSS>DHTML
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Attractive dropdown menus have long been the realm of Flash developers and advanced JavaScript gurus. But that needn’t be the case. This tutorial will walk you through developing a clean, semantic dropdown menu using XHTML and CSS that works in all modern browsers!
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>DHTML>CSS
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Last week, CSSnewbie reader Andrea Pluhar wrote in with an interesting problem: she wanted to use CSS dropdown menus like the ones we featured last week on a website that she was building, but the design called for the submenu to be arranged horizontally, not vertically. She sent me a mockup of what she was after (excerpted above) and wondered if there was a way to accomplish this effect using CSS.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>DHTML>CSS
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Tab-Based Navigation in Six (or Seven) Easy Steps
Navigation bars are the signposts of the web world: we take them for granted because of their ubiquity, but we’d all have a much harder time getting around without them. On most websites, nav bars hold a position of honor near the very top of the page, meaning they’re one of the first things your users see upon entering your site. As such, there’s a lot of pressure on navigation bars to look clean, act sophisticated, and ply the client’s wife with small talk and Manhattans while you close the deal.
Glazebrook, Rob L. CSSnewbie (2008). Articles>Web Design>DHTML>CSS
