Archive for May, 2003

CSS Menus on WebReference

Thursday, May 29th, 2003

This week’s Webreference.com update by Andy King includes the Pure CSS2 Drop-down Menus I posted earlier in the week. The update includes links to examples of other hierarchical CSS menus by some talented web designers.

Revealing Accesskey Info with CSS

Wednesday, May 28th, 2003

The accesskey attribute is a useful feature that allows users to navigate websites via the keyboard instead of a mouse. Unfortunately not knowing what accesskeys are associated with each link makes them of limited value. Revealing Accesskey Info is a new article demonstrating how to use the :before and :after pseudo-elements to selectively display the accesskey assignments to modern web browsers.

Pure CSS Pull Down Menus

Monday, May 26th, 2003

Building on what I thought of on Friday, I’ve created a pull-down menu using only CSS! Once again, this effect won’t work in IE, but should do so in other modern browsers.

The Search for the Missing Link

Friday, May 23rd, 2003

The Search for the Missing Link is a new article demonstrating how to use CSS pseudo-classes to help users find hard to spot links on an otherwise well designed page. This is something I thought of just this morning, and you’ll need to use the newest version of Mozilla (1.3) to get the full effect!

Update:

Thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman for the link and kind words on his website, and thanks to everyone who sent in feedback on browser support. The technique has been confirmed to work in Opera 7, Safari, and Camino.