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A Help / Chat bubble using only CSS + Unicode. No Images needed!
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<html> | |
<head> | |
<title>Help / Chat Bubble with CSS + Unicode</title> | |
<!-- | |
Created by: Jordan Robert Dobson | |
[email protected] | |
http://MadeBySquad.com | |
http://twitter.com/JordanDobson | |
--> | |
<style type="text/css"> | |
body{ | |
text-align: center; | |
margin: 5.0em 0; | |
font-family: sans-serif; | |
color: #ccc; | |
} | |
/* Bubble Specific CSS */ | |
.bubble{ | |
margin: 0 auto; | |
} | |
.bubble, | |
.bubble em{ | |
border-radius: 5px; | |
-moz-border-radius: 5px; | |
-webkit-border-radius: 5px; | |
position: relative; | |
background-color: #eee; | |
} | |
.bubble{ | |
width: 200px; | |
display: block; | |
box-shadow: #999 1px 1px 1px; | |
-moz-box-shadow: #999 1px 1px 1px; | |
-webkit-box-shadow: #999 1px 1px 1px; | |
} | |
.bubble em{ | |
display: block; | |
padding: 1.25em; | |
text-align: center; | |
z-index: 2; | |
color: #333; | |
font-size: .75em; | |
font-style: normal; | |
} | |
.bubble:before{ | |
text-shadow: #999 1px 1px 1px; | |
color: #eee; | |
position: absolute; | |
text-align: center; | |
font-size: 1.5em; | |
width: 1.0em; | |
height: 1.0em; | |
line-height: 1.0em; | |
} | |
.left:before, | |
.right:before{ | |
top: 50%; | |
margin-top: -.5em; | |
} | |
.top:before, | |
.bottom:before{ | |
left: 50%; | |
margin-left: -.5em; | |
} | |
.top:before{ | |
content: "\25B2"; | |
top: -.5em; | |
} | |
.bottom:before{ | |
content: "\25BC"; | |
bottom: -.5em; | |
} | |
.left:before{ | |
content: "\25C0"; | |
left: -.5em; | |
} | |
.right:before{ | |
content: "\25BA"; | |
right: -.5em; | |
} | |
</style> | |
</head> | |
<body> | |
<div class="bubble bottom"> | |
<em>Use for help along side form elements or for other things like chat bubbles. Change the div class to top, left, right, bottom to move the position of the arrow.</em> | |
</div> | |
<p>No images needed at all.</p> | |
</body> | |
</html> |
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