These “sliding” style navigation bars have been around a while, I just thought I’d take a crack at doing it myself as the opportunity came up recently. Turns out it’s really pretty darn easy. I put two examples together for it.
There is a CSS selector, really a pseudo-selector, called nth-child. Here is an example of using it:
ul li:nth-child(3n+3) {
color: #ccc;
}
What the above CSS does, is select every third list item inside unordered lists. That is, the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, etc. But how does that work? And what other kinds of things can [...]
Two things today.
First, have you guys heard of Threadsy? I hadn’t, but apparently they got 2nd place at TechCrunch 50, which is pretty great. It’s a web application that combines several of your online “input streams” (e.g. Email, Twitter, and Facebook). I think that’s actually all they do right now, which I find kind [...]
A reader recently emailed in asking if I knew a way to have links be underlined, and then have the underline grow upwards on hover and turn into a background/highlight effect. I ended up trying three different things, with varying levels of success.
Read Article / Comment »Totally free template for ya’ll today. It is fully of AJAX navigation goodness, so subpages load dynamically with no page reload. If you don’t like that part (for example, you are trying to put JavaScript demos on the subpages and they won’t load that way) just remove the JavaScript files from the header and it will revert to regular nav. Enjoy!
Read Article / Comment »When you use jQuery’s .animate() function with something like a hover event, those animations will “queue up”. That is, if you hover multiple times, that animation will fire multiple times. The classic method to prevent this is to throw in a .stop() before the animation, but I find this abrupt and not ideal, because it prevents the animation from completing a full cycle. In this screencast we’ll look at a few attempts at solving this and ultimately using a plugin that does a great job.
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