Archive for the ‘Nerdlab’ Category

• CSS: Pimp my apple.com

  Sep 16 30

  So, usually I would take months to come up with some long-winded and very informative tutorial on CSS for my fellow blog readers. However, today I am not feeling that kind…yet kind enough to post this.
  I respect Apple for quite a few things. Design is one of them. I think [...]

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• CSS Star Rating Part Deux

  Jan 09 217

  Check out this tutorial on taking the CSS star rater to the next level by adding the current rating to the star rating system. This tutorial will take you through the CSS and the XHTML needed to create the star rater as well as supply examples for the system. Go ahead and start reading!

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• Creating a Star Rater using CSS

  Aug 24 93

  This is my first contribution to the CSS loving community. So, many of you have seen a blog. Many of you have seen comments and reviews on sites such as Netflix and Amazon. Most of these reviews, as in Amazon’s case or Movies, as in Neflix’s case come with a handy dandy rating. I’ve even seen the star rating system used at msn.com. Many of these solutions may use JavaScript or just have an individual hover state for a single star. The question I pose is…. Can you create a star rating using only CSS. I’m talking the kind that when you hover over the 4th star, there are four stars that show up on the hover state. Well, I’m glad you asked because that is just the question I intend to answer.

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