Reusable CSS: buttons

A small collection of reusable CSS buttons – some original, some improved, all ready to download and use immediately.

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Javascript Events – Capturing and Bubbling

Attaching an event handler to a an event is quite straight-forward in JavaScript and trivial in jQuery (soon to become just became even more concise). With all the recent advances in JavaScript (and all facets of web development), I found myself wanting to understand as much as possible about the native DOM and JavaScript API. […]

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Emboss linked images with box-shadow and pseudo elements

A CSS implementation of an image emboss effect traditionally achieved with pngs. Some delicious Firefox transition action comes as a bonus!

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box-shadow and CSS transforms – A future without pngs

There are plenty of articles around describing the basics of how to apply a shadows using box-shadow. I will take box-shadow one step further and show how a lot of the popular shadows, normally achieved with pngs, can be achieved via pure css.

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