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6 New jQuery Techniques to Spice Up Your Design Content

Designers are constantly striving to create eye-catching and interactive layouts without losing the usability features that add significant importance to the user’s experience. Since there are various forms of techniques being used nowadays, it can be quite confusing when choosing the perfect one. Content can either help to enhance the design, or serve as a [...]

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Accordian - Toggle 

This accordion pulls in the content based upon the list item link and displays it in a nested list. It also changes color and + or - depending on whether its open or closed $(document).ready(function(){ $(“li.child:visible”).hide(); $(“li.parent”).click(function(){ if ($(this).children().hasClass(“selected”)) { $(this).children().removeClass(‘selected’); $(this).next().toggle(“slow”); return false; } else { $(this).children().addClass(‘selected’); $(this).next().load($(this).children().attr(“href”)).toggle(“medium”); return false; } }); });

PNG FIX - PNG Fix for IE6 by MIME type 

There are a ton of PNG fixes out there and so far my favorite has been supersleight, however i mask the image source and filename that my clients use in a query so i can’t apply the default supersleight since it’s based on file extensions, so instead i made an add-on to check the MIME [...]

Simple Tabbing System 

Today, we are going to learn how to create simple tabbing system. It is a very common technique nowadays. Especially for those magazine site, news or blogs that contain a lot of sections or contents.

The right way to underline 

Instead of using “text-decoration: underline”, try using “border-bottom: solid 1px #000″ instead. That way you can also experiment with various border types (dotted, dashed, etc). Another great benefit of this method, is that it won’t cut through your descenders! Examples: a { border-bottom: dashed 1px red; } a { border-bottom: dotted 1px #333; }

Form Layouts With CSS 

Laying out forms with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a complex topic. In light of many developers doing their first overall CSS layouts they often bail when it comes to laying out forms with CSS and avoiding both tables and line breaks.