Sliding Door Css Technique

Beautifully crafted truly flexible interface components which expand and contract with the size of the text can be created if we use two separate background images.

Sliding door css technique. Enter semi graphical tabs using the sliding door technique. Which means the important part will be the background image position. If you haven t read part i yet you should read it now. This method provides the following advantages.

Using the sliding door technique with css menu writer. The link itself will hold another part of it. One image is long over which the text is laid and the other image closes the other side. The doors slide together and overlap more to fill a narrow space or slide apart and overlap less to fill a wider space as the diagram below shows.

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. The concept of the sliding door is to use a background image for the buttons in a navigation menu. Think of these two images as sliding doors that complete one doorway. With css menu writer implementing this.

The following method uses this xhtml code. This solution recipe shows you how to use the sliding doors technique. This technique uses two images one for the left cap while the other covers. Sliding doors of css part i introduced a new technique for creating visually stunning interface elements with simple text based semantic markup.

The sliding door technique basically uses two images stacked up next to each other. Tabs themselves resize to fit the text. Tab text can be resized to fit viewer s comfort. Tabs that use real text are likely to be more semantically correct.

In part ii we ll push the technique even further. Introduced by douglas bowman to customize your css menu writer menus. One for the left one for the right. The sliding doors technique section3.