Usually a textarea (inside an HTML form) is resizable – and that’s a good thing. But often that is just bit too much and a resizable textarea is likely to screw with your precious design. So every now and then you would probably want to control, in what way a textarea can be resized – […]
The following scenario might sound quite familiar to the one or the other web designer / web developer: you have a nicely centered layout, but of course some pages have less content than others. For example the contact page can be quite short, if it only features a contact form and some contact details. So […]
You probably very well know the sub-menu that is “flying-out” from the main navigation on hover. Many free WordPress Themes are equipped with that rollover-sub-menu and while it may be a nice thing to have, sometimes you want to style it in peace and quiet. And that can be difficult, since it is usually hidden […]
Change between Grayscale and Color image with a nifty CSS hover effect - Photo/montage: T.Bortels/cpu20
Hover effects are sometime overused – but when done right they can be a useful detail, having a positive effect on the webdesign and the overall user experience by simply highlighting clickable images on hover. Here is a short introduction how to implement a Grayscale-Color-Hover-Effect for the images on your website. Introduction If you wanted […]
Having floating divs not stretching the parent container to their full height is re-occurring problem in daily webdesign business. And since I’m looking for a solution every now and then, I decided to finally write down the easiest solution that I could find looking for “make container div the height of contained divs”. Here we […]
Yes: it’s possible to have a fancybox with a fancy title but without the tooltip. You can even style the title, that will be shown in the modal window / popup layer without making the roll-over tool tip look wired. How? Here is how: Usually you would put the “image caption” (or the actual image […]