April 26, 2016/1 Comment/in , /by

WordPress Developers: Your Complete Guide to Conquering CSS in 2016

CSS can be a divisive technology…

For some, it’s a wonderfully flexible presentational technology that they love bending to their will.

For others, it’s a near incomprehensible series of fractal layout hacks that make accomplishing something as simple as vertically centering an element a cause for celebration.

Like it or loath it as a developer though, there’s no getting around CSS when it comes to making sure your site looks as ship-shape as possible for your users. – Read more –

October 15, 2008/75 Comments/in , , /by Kriesi

Create simple tooltips with CSS and jQuery – Part 1


CSS tooltips are very popular in modern web design and contrary to popular belief it is really easy to create them, especially with one of the all so popular javascript frameworks.

Before I started to delve deeper into this topic, I thought you have to use at least a plugin, but to get some basic tooltips all you need are about 10 lines of CSS and jQuery Code.

This Tutorial will teach you how to create such tooltips with some basic CSS and jQuery. – Read more –

July 26, 2008/428 Comments/in , /by Kriesi

Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery

Since I wrote my last tutorial on how to create a CSS only multilevel dropdown menu I got a lot of visitors who wanted to know how I created the main navigation of kriesi.at. (a so called kwicks menu) The interest in extraordinary menus seems to be high nowadays, so today I will teach you how this is done.

Since the Apple-flavored Leopard-text-indent style is currently one of my favorite menu styles, we will start from scratch and build such a menu in Photoshop, then create the needed HTML and CSS and last but not least improve it via jQuery.

This is what we are going to build (don’t forget to hover over the menu)

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June 18, 2008/398 Comments/in , /by Kriesi

Create a multilevel Dropdown menu with CSS and improve it via jQuery

Some of you might have noticed, I have a partiality for sleek menus. As I recently had to create a multi level dropdown menu for one of my customers, I wanted to improve it with a little bit of jQuery, but couldn’t find a script that accomplished what I needed.

So I decided to build this menu from scratch and share my thoughts as well as the code with you.

So before we start: this is what we are going to build

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