Sliding doors of css part i introduced a new technique for creating visually stunning interface elements with simple text based semantic markup.
Sliding door css technique.
In part ii we ll push the technique even further.
The sliding door technique basically uses two images stacked up next to each other.
One for the left one for the right.
We have border radius now and gradient backgrounds and all that which unlock most of what we were trying to achieve back in the day of sliding doors.
The sliding doors technique.
In part ii he pushes the technique even further with rollovers a fix for ie win s css bugs and lots more.
Css sliding door using only 1 image may 27th 2008 in css tutorials by kailoon before i know about this technique i was using different images for each of the button i needed in a navigation bar.
One image is long over which the text is laid and the other image closes the other side.
If you haven t read part i yet you should read it now.
In sliding doors of css part i douglas bowman introduced a new technique for creating visually stunning interface elements with simple text based semantic markup.
Sliding doors is a pretty old technique.
We use the background image property because it hides the overflow and only shows the width specified and the other image slides over it to define the other end.