Inset box-shadow behavior on Chrome beta

March 1st, 2011 by Catalin Rosu - 2 comments

In my previous article, border, border-radius and box-shadow properties were used to create a slick HTML5 search box. As you may know, when using all these together, a well-known Chrome bug is triggered.

Although this bug was fixed in the latest Chrome beta releases, below you’ll see the strange (may I call it like that?) or should I better say different behavior:

How to create a cool and usable CSS3 search box

February 18th, 2011 by Catalin Rosu - 69 comments

In this new article, you’ll learn how create a cool and usable CSS3 search box using the HTML5 placeholder attribute. For the browsers that don’t support this new HTML5 attribute, a fallback is created using Modernizr’s feature detection.

CSS3 love

February 14th, 2011 by Catalin Rosu - 1 comment

I made a page with the heart shape you can make with CSS3. Just some CSS3 text-shadow, a HTML heart character and voila:

11 useful online tools for web developers and designers

February 8th, 2011 by Catalin Rosu - 7 comments

This article contains a list with some free online tools I found very useful for my daily work. Even if you are a developer or a designer, these tools can realy improve your work.

Cross-browser CSS gradient buttons

February 1st, 2011 by Catalin Rosu - 32 comments

Recently I talked about CSS cross-browser gradients and last week I wrote again about CSS3 gradients. So what I’m going to do today? I will show you how to put the CSS gradient feature in practical use.

In this article you will see how you can create a set of gradient buttons just with CSS (no images).