This example combines a fixed body and footer height. Commonly used on designer websites.
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=”en”>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Fixed body</title>
<style type="text/css">
*
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
body
{
background:#A3A3A3;
}
#container, footer
{
display:block;
font-family:Sans-serif;
}
#container
{
background:#FFFFFF;
color:#A3A3A3;
height:400px;
}
footer
{
height:10em;
background:#A3A3A3;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<h1>This is a sticky footer example</h1>
</div>
<footer>This is my footer</footer>
</body>
</html>
Monday 16 August 2010
How to make a sticky footer
Sometimes you want the footer of your page to always be available at the same height no matter how much you resize your web browser. This is called a sticky footer. Here is a pretty simple way to code it for your site.
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Sticky footer</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
height:100%;
margin: 0 auto;
color:#000000;
}
#container
{
height:90%;
}
#footer
{
height:10%;
clear:both;
background:#A3A3A3;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<h1>This is a sticky footer example</h1>
</div>
<div id="footer">This is my sticky footer</div>
</body>
</html>
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Sticky footer</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
height:100%;
margin: 0 auto;
color:#000000;
}
#container
{
height:90%;
}
#footer
{
height:10%;
clear:both;
background:#A3A3A3;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<h1>This is a sticky footer example</h1>
</div>
<div id="footer">This is my sticky footer</div>
</body>
</html>
Big Text in the Background
Sometimes it is useful to design a web page with big text in the background of the main content. Below I have created a page which does that. The <h1> content is declared before the main page content and pushed to the back using position:absolute and z-index-1 in the CSS.
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Big Text in the Background</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
color:#999999;
}
h1
{
position:absolute;
left:60px;
top:-200px;
z-index:-1;
font-size:20em;
color:#F2D1F9;
}
#mainPage
{
margin:100px auto;
width:800px;
}
p
{
margin:20px;
text-align:justify;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The Big Text</h1>
<div id="mainPage">
<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Big Text in the Background</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
color:#999999;
}
h1
{
position:absolute;
left:60px;
top:-200px;
z-index:-1;
font-size:20em;
color:#F2D1F9;
}
#mainPage
{
margin:100px auto;
width:800px;
}
p
{
margin:20px;
text-align:justify;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The Big Text</h1>
<div id="mainPage">
<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Friday 13 August 2010
Automatic menu selection using PHP
Suppose I have a website. In this case a PHP driven HTML5 website, although what I'm about to explain doesn't really require HTML5 and can be easily adapted.
See demo.
I have a menu. I have a text file called menu.txt which contains my menu items like this:
index.php,home
index2.php,Page 2
index3.php,Page 3
And what I want to do is call a PHP script which:
I can then apply CSS as I like to the menu appearance using a different colour for the selected item.
Here is how I do it. First place the include 'navigation.php'; in your page script where you want the navigation to appear.
This is what navigation.php looks like:
<nav>
<ul>
<?php
/* get the contents of menu.txt */
$fileArr = file('includes/menu.txt');
/* get the name of the PHP file referred to in the URL */
$fname = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
/* if there isn't a PHP file extension in the URL, it must be root. Therefore call it index.php */
if(substr($fname,-4) <> ".php")
{
$fname = "index.php";
}
/* create the menu from the lines in menu.txt */
foreach ($fileArr as $line)
{
$menuitems = explode(",", $line);
echo '<li><a href="'.$menuitems[0].'" ';
/* Check the current pathname in menu.txt with the one in the current URL */
if($menuitems[0] == $fname)
{
/* If they are the same add the menuSelected class to the link */
echo 'class="menuSelected"';
}
echo '>'.$menuitems[1].'</a></li>';
}
?>
</ul>
</nav>
Hey presto! Have fun.
See demo.
I have a menu. I have a text file called menu.txt which contains my menu items like this:
index.php,home
index2.php,Page 2
index3.php,Page 3
And what I want to do is call a PHP script which:
- Reads the file.
- Creates the menu tags from the file contents.
- Automatically selects the page I'm looking at as the selected item in the menu.
I can then apply CSS as I like to the menu appearance using a different colour for the selected item.
Here is how I do it. First place the include 'navigation.php'; in your page script where you want the navigation to appear.
This is what navigation.php looks like:
<nav>
<ul>
<?php
/* get the contents of menu.txt */
$fileArr = file('includes/menu.txt');
/* get the name of the PHP file referred to in the URL */
$fname = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
/* if there isn't a PHP file extension in the URL, it must be root. Therefore call it index.php */
if(substr($fname,-4) <> ".php")
{
$fname = "index.php";
}
/* create the menu from the lines in menu.txt */
foreach ($fileArr as $line)
{
$menuitems = explode(",", $line);
echo '<li><a href="'.$menuitems[0].'" ';
/* Check the current pathname in menu.txt with the one in the current URL */
if($menuitems[0] == $fname)
{
/* If they are the same add the menuSelected class to the link */
echo 'class="menuSelected"';
}
echo '>'.$menuitems[1].'</a></li>';
}
?>
</ul>
</nav>
Hey presto! Have fun.
Simple vertical navigation
How many times have you wanted to start a website using a simple left hand vertical left hand navigation and then just build on it. Below is a template for doing just that. This time I have added a few comments even though the code is pretty self explanatory. To make this work on your own setup, you will also need to create subPage1.html, subPage2.html and subPage3.html, but other than that, you're away. You should need to download jQuery because it is being referenced from Google. There is a little CSS, just to, layout the tabs and show how the hover works.
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Tabbed Navigation</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
}
/* a holder for the entire page centred in the browser window */
#subSystem
{
margin:0 auto;
width:480px;
}
/* a container for the navigation with a border around 3 of the sides */
#subNav
{
float:left;
width:88px;
border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-bottom:1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-left:1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
/* properties of each menu item to make it look like a block of centred text */
#subNav a.subMenu
{
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
text-align:center;
width:80px;
height:40px;
padding-top:16px;
padding-left:4px;
padding-right:4px;
color:#000000;
}
/* the changes in appearance of a menu item when someone hovers over it */
#subNav a.subMenu:hover
{
background:#A3A3A3;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
/* the changes in appearance of a menu item when someone has selected it */
.menuSelected
{
background:#CCCCCC;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
/* a container for the page content */
#subContent
{
float:left;
width:380px;
min-height:380px;
height:380px;
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
</style>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
google.load("jquery", "1");
google.load("jqueryui", "1");
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
/* when a menu item is clicked remove any items which were previously selected.
Change the property of the item clicked to selected.
Put whatever the hyperlink points to within the content container. */
$("a.subMenu").click(function()
{
$("a.subMenu").removeClass("menuSelected");
$(this).addClass("menuSelected");
$("#subContent").load($(this).attr("href"));
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="subSystem">
<div id="subNav">
<a href="subPage1.html" class="subMenu menuSelected">First</a>
<a href="subPage2.html" class="subMenu">Second</a>
<a href="subPage3.html" class="subMenu">Third</a>
</div>
<div id="subContent">
Hello World!
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Tabbed Navigation</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
}
/* a holder for the entire page centred in the browser window */
#subSystem
{
margin:0 auto;
width:480px;
}
/* a container for the navigation with a border around 3 of the sides */
#subNav
{
float:left;
width:88px;
border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-bottom:1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-left:1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
/* properties of each menu item to make it look like a block of centred text */
#subNav a.subMenu
{
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
text-align:center;
width:80px;
height:40px;
padding-top:16px;
padding-left:4px;
padding-right:4px;
color:#000000;
}
/* the changes in appearance of a menu item when someone hovers over it */
#subNav a.subMenu:hover
{
background:#A3A3A3;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
/* the changes in appearance of a menu item when someone has selected it */
.menuSelected
{
background:#CCCCCC;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
/* a container for the page content */
#subContent
{
float:left;
width:380px;
min-height:380px;
height:380px;
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
</style>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
google.load("jquery", "1");
google.load("jqueryui", "1");
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
/* when a menu item is clicked remove any items which were previously selected.
Change the property of the item clicked to selected.
Put whatever the hyperlink points to within the content container. */
$("a.subMenu").click(function()
{
$("a.subMenu").removeClass("menuSelected");
$(this).addClass("menuSelected");
$("#subContent").load($(this).attr("href"));
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="subSystem">
<div id="subNav">
<a href="subPage1.html" class="subMenu menuSelected">First</a>
<a href="subPage2.html" class="subMenu">Second</a>
<a href="subPage3.html" class="subMenu">Third</a>
</div>
<div id="subContent">
Hello World!
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thursday 12 August 2010
Simple tab navigation using jQuery
Below is the code for a very simple jQuery tabbed navigation. To make this work on your own setup, you will also need to create subPage1.html, subPage2.html and subPage3.html, but other than that, you're away. You should need to download jQuery because it is being referenced from Google. There is a little CSS, just to, layout the tabs and show how the hover works.
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Tabbed Navigation</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
}
#subSystem
{
margin:0 auto;
width:400px;
}
#subNav a.subMenu
{
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
float:left;
text-align:center;
width:80px;
height:40px;
padding:4px;
border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-left:1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right:1px solid #CCCCCC;
color:#000000;
}
#subNav a.subMenu:hover
{
background:#A3A3A3;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
.menuSelected
{
background:#CCCCCC;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
#subContent
{
clear:left;
min-height:400px;
height:400px;
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
</style>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
google.load("jquery", "1");
google.load("jqueryui", "1");
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("a.subMenu").click(function()
{
$("a.subMenu").removeClass("menuSelected");
$(this).addClass("menuSelected");
$("#subContent").load($(this).attr("href"));
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="subSystem">
<div id="subNav">
<a href="subPage1.html" class="subMenu menuSelected">First</a>
<a href="subPage2.html" class="subMenu">Second</a>
<a href="subPage3.html" class="subMenu">Third</a>
</div>
<div id="subContent">
Hello World!
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Tabbed Navigation</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
font-family:Sans-serif;
}
#subSystem
{
margin:0 auto;
width:400px;
}
#subNav a.subMenu
{
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
float:left;
text-align:center;
width:80px;
height:40px;
padding:4px;
border-top:1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-left:1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right:1px solid #CCCCCC;
color:#000000;
}
#subNav a.subMenu:hover
{
background:#A3A3A3;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
.menuSelected
{
background:#CCCCCC;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
#subContent
{
clear:left;
min-height:400px;
height:400px;
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
</style>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
google.load("jquery", "1");
google.load("jqueryui", "1");
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("a.subMenu").click(function()
{
$("a.subMenu").removeClass("menuSelected");
$(this).addClass("menuSelected");
$("#subContent").load($(this).attr("href"));
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="subSystem">
<div id="subNav">
<a href="subPage1.html" class="subMenu menuSelected">First</a>
<a href="subPage2.html" class="subMenu">Second</a>
<a href="subPage3.html" class="subMenu">Third</a>
</div>
<div id="subContent">
Hello World!
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Wednesday 11 August 2010
My HTML5 Template
Here is my HTML5 template. It also contains a few things I like to put in my pages.
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.1/build/reset-fonts-grids/reset-fonts-grids.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/html5reset.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/pageStyle.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" href="stylesheets/smalldevice.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/printstyle.css" media="print" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico" />
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js"></script>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
google.load("jquery", "1");
google.load("jqueryui", "1");
WebFont.load(
{
google:
{
families: [ 'Tangerine', 'Cantarell', 'Yanone Kaffeesatz' ]
}
});
</script>
<script src="scripts/jQueryFunctions.js"></script>
<script src="scripts/html5functions.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="page">
<header>
<div id="google_translate_element"></div><script>
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
new google.translate.TranslateElement({
pageLanguage: 'en'
}, 'google_translate_element');
}
</script><script src="http://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>
<hgroup>
<h1>Page Header</h1>
<h2>Page Sub Heading</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Projects</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Profile</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
<section>
<article>First article on left.
</article>
<article>
<canvas id="myDrawing" width="200" height="200">
<p>Your browser doesn't support canvas.</p>
</canvas>
</article>
</section>
<aside>
The stuff aside
<article class="yellowbox">
This is the text in the box.
</article>
</aside>
<footer>
footer represents a footer for a section and can contain information about the author, copyright information, et cetera.
</footer>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Enjoy!
See demo.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.1/build/reset-fonts-grids/reset-fonts-grids.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/html5reset.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/pageStyle.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" href="stylesheets/smalldevice.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/printstyle.css" media="print" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico" />
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js"></script>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
google.load("jquery", "1");
google.load("jqueryui", "1");
WebFont.load(
{
google:
{
families: [ 'Tangerine', 'Cantarell', 'Yanone Kaffeesatz' ]
}
});
</script>
<script src="scripts/jQueryFunctions.js"></script>
<script src="scripts/html5functions.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="page">
<header>
<div id="google_translate_element"></div><script>
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
new google.translate.TranslateElement({
pageLanguage: 'en'
}, 'google_translate_element');
}
</script><script src="http://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>
<hgroup>
<h1>Page Header</h1>
<h2>Page Sub Heading</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Projects</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Profile</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
<section>
<article>First article on left.
</article>
<article>
<canvas id="myDrawing" width="200" height="200">
<p>Your browser doesn't support canvas.</p>
</canvas>
</article>
</section>
<aside>
The stuff aside
<article class="yellowbox">
This is the text in the box.
</article>
</aside>
<footer>
footer represents a footer for a section and can contain information about the author, copyright information, et cetera.
</footer>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Enjoy!
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