Beverleyh

The latest CSS-only offering is my attempt at an image gallery where image enlargements open in a modal window. It was inspired by a tutorial on modal popups and uses the :target selector in CSS to match the hash at the end of an URL with the id of a corresponding element.

The logic for this (taken from the modal popups tutorial) is that a hashed URL can be wrapped around a small thumb image, which matches the id of an image enlargement in a modal overlay div. When the hashed small ...

Updated 04-28-2014 at 11:39 AM by Beverleyh

Tags: css, css3, gallery, images, lightbox, mobile, modal, popups, responsive

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Fiddling some more with CSS transitions and the checkbox hack to emulate click events via CSS, I tried my hand at making a CSS-only content slider.

Initially I attempted to make it with checkboxes, but due to the behaviour of multiple checkboxes being checkable at the same time (which totally mungs up the idea for a slider where you only want one slide activated), I turned to radio buttons instead.

The key difference between radios and checkboxes is that only one radio ...

Updated 11-27-2014 at 01:27 PM by Beverleyh (basic support added for IE7)

Tags: animation, checkbox, css3, radio, rwd, slider, slideshow, tabbed content, tabs, transitions

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I decided to work more on the previous "CSS-only, Multi-Level, Off-Canvass/Slide-Out Menu (no JavaScript)" code so that it can be used on desktop as well as mobile.

So here is the "Responsive CSS3 Multi-Level, Drop-Down Menu (no JavaScript)".

It's similar to the previous menu in that it uses the same side-docked, off-canvass menu pattern for mobile, but this new version now also sports a horizontal, dropdown menu bar in "desktop" view, ...

I recently worked on a mobile forum with off-canvass/slide-out menu. I wanted to keep the project as small and lightweight as possible, so I chose to snub JavaScript and work on a CSS-only solution. The menu was just a simple 1-level effort using the checkbox hack (where you use the :checked state of a checkbox and a connected label to trigger something with CSS), but it was an excuse for me to play around with CSS3 transitions. That example is here: http://m.jemcon.org.uk/phpBB3/

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This week I was asked to look at and offer opinions on a student's website project.

Now, its been a while since I was in student-shoes but it brought back memories of the mistakes that I made myself back when I was first learning how to make websites so I thought I'd create my first blog about the easy mistakes and easy fixes that can really help improve loading times.

My first observation is with the common development path that a lots of new-starters take when making ...