Discuss: CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners & Borders Part II
by Søren Madsen
- Editorial Comments
2 A few tiny holes,yet, in IE6
I love these two articles and have, in fact, created a number of designs already based on Part I of “Custom Corners”. In Part II, especially, I still see a few tiny holes in IE6 (Windows XP Pro). The example link for Step 2.4 introduces gaps above the footers in each column — small ones in the left and right and a large one across the whole center column — but only after the user scrolls the page content. Resizing the browser, even by a pixel or two, makes the gaps disappear, but any scrolling brings them right back.
Is there any end to the madness?! (Kudos, by the way, to Madsen. This is a fine article. I think we’ll all be happier when these browser bugs are laid to rest.)
posted at 07:35 am on February 27, 2004 by David Stiller
3 Re: Tiny Holes
Even stranger. I get them too (Win2k/IE6) but only when I scroll using my mouse wheel. If I use IE’s scrollbar, everything is fine.
Those wacky IE developers!
posted at 08:23 am on February 27, 2004 by Seth
4 Customs Corners/Borders with only 1 image
As I’ve demonstrated before, in the 1st part, this is the 99% exact replica of Step2.3 testcase, but using only one image, instead of slicing into 5 images, which seems unnecessary.
http://phoenity.com/tests/custom_corners_one.html
posted at 08:37 am on February 27, 2004 by Lim Chee Aun
5 Slight problems in 1600x1200 res
The background image for the main body doesnt seem to repeat to the full width of the table in 1600×1200 using Firefox 0.8.
Cant quite see whats going on here though to fix it…
posted at 08:47 am on February 27, 2004 by Chris E Boy
6 RE: Customs Corners/Borders with only 1 image
RE: CSS3
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No. The keyword here is “custom” – not “round” :)
RE: Customs Corners/Borders with only 1 image
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Yes – your approach makes sense for smaller sections, but the slicing prepares the technique for sections with “infinite” length, as demonstrated in the center-column in step 2.4
RE: Slight problems in 1600×1200 res
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The background-image used for this article is only of a certain size, and therefore the layout looks like it’s “breaking” when viewed at very large resolutions. Use bigger images, or limit the possible size of the section.
And by the way – how dare you accuse me of using tables for this? (throws glove!)
;)
posted at 09:29 am on February 27, 2004 by Søren Madsen
7 RE: Customs Corners/Borders with only 1 image
Søren Madsen wrote:
Yes – your approach makes sense for smaller sections, but the slicing prepares the technique for sections with “infinite” length, as demonstrated in the center-column in step 2.4
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“infinite” length? I don’t understand. So far I know PNG/GIF are raster formats, not vectors, so they cannot get infinite width/height, right? Please correct me if I’m wrong.
posted at 09:34 am on February 27, 2004 by Lim Chee Aun
8 tables??
Chris E Boy; I am sure you ment to say DIV yeh??
Søren; Im sure he didn’t mean any harm. No need for throwing gloves. Here is a stone. ;)
posted at 10:26 am on February 27, 2004 by Phil Baines
9 RE: CSS3
CSS3 has border-image ;-)
( http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-border/#the-border-image-uri )
posted at 11:30 am on February 27, 2004 by Anne
10 Seems very similar to the ThrashBox...
http://www.vertexwerks.com/tests/sidebox/
same principal
posted at 11:37 am on February 27, 2004 by Jeremy Flint
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1 CSS3
Presumably this is the sort of effect CSS3’s border-radius property is supposed the achieve?
posted at 07:34 am on February 27, 2004 by Robin