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STYLE SHEETS

Styling Web Page Headers with Transparent Background Images
By: Alejandro Gervasio
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    2008-02-12

    Table of Contents:
  • Styling Web Page Headers with Transparent Background Images
  • Review: building angled corners using a transparent background image
  • Building some fancy web page headers
  • Developing a final testing example

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    Styling Web Page Headers with Transparent Background Images - Developing a final testing example


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    If you’re anything like me, then you might want to see how to use the transparent background image that I created previously to style all of the <h2> headers of a sample web page. Also, you should consider that this is only an example, which means that this styling approach can be used with other web page elements as well.

    Having clarified that point, please take a look at the signature of the following (X)HTML file, which displays the fancy headers that I mentioned earlier:


    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>

    <title>Sample web page with styled headers (uses transparent background image)</title>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

    <style type="text/css">

    body{

    padding: 0;

    margin: 0;

    background: #ccc;

    }

    h1{

    padding: 5px;

    margin: 0;

    font: bold 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

    color: #000;

    }

    h2{

    text-align: right;

    padding: 7px 5px 8px 5px;

    margin: 0;

    background: #6cf url(angled_background.gif) center center no-repeat;

    font: bold 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

    color: #000;

    }

    p{

    font: normal 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

    color: #000;

    }

    #header{

    width: 780px;

    padding: 10px;

    margin-left: auto;

    margin-right: auto;

    background: #ffc;

    }

    #navbar{

    width: 780px;

    padding: 10px;

    margin-left: auto;

    margin-right: auto;

    background: #fff;

    }

    #navbar ul{

    list-style: none;

    }

    #navbar li{

    display: inline;

    padding-right: 4%;

    }

    #navbar a:link,#navbar a:visited{

    font: normal 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

    color: #039;

    text-decoration: none;

    }

    #navbar a:hover{

    text-decoration: underline;

    }

    #mainwrapper{

    clear: both;

    width: 800px;

    height: 100%;

    margin-left: auto;

    margin-right: auto;

    overflow: hidden;

    background: #fff;

    }

    #mainwrapper .leftcol{

    position: relative;

    float: left;

    }

    #mainwrapper .rightcol{

    position: relative;

    float: right;

    }

    #leftbar{

    width: 180px;

    padding: 10px;

    }

    #centerbar{

    float: left;

    width: 380px;

    padding: 10px;

    background: #fff;

    }

    #rightbar{

    width: 180px;

    padding: 10px;

    }

    #footer{

    clear: both;

    width: 780px;

    padding: 10px;

    margin-left: auto;

    margin-right: auto;

    background: #ffc;

    }

    .contbox{

    padding: 10px;

    background: #6cf;

    }

    </style>

    </head>

    <body>

    <div id="header">

    <h1>This is the header section of the web page</h1>

    <p>Contents for header section go here. Contents for header section go here. Contents for header section go here. Contents for header section go here.</p>

    </div>

    <div id="navbar">

    <h1>This is the navigation bar of the web page</h1>

    <ul>

    <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>

    <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>

    <li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li>

    <li><a href="#">Link 4</a></li>

    <li><a href="#">Link 5</a></li>

    <li><a href="#">Link 6</a></li>

    </ul>

    </div>

    <div id="mainwrapper">

    <div id="leftbar" class="leftcol">

    <h2>Left column</h2>

    <div class="contbox">

    <p>Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here.</p>

    </div>

    </div>

    <div id="centerbar" class="leftcol">

    <h1>Center column of the web page</h1>

    <p>Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here.</p>

    <p>Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here.</p>

    <p>Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here. Contents for center column go here.</p>

    </div>

    <div id="rightbar" class="rightcol">

    <h2>Right column</h2>

    <div class="contbox">

    <p>Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here. Contents for left column go here.</p>

    </div>

    </div>

    </div>

    <div id="footer">

    <h1>This is the footer section of the web page</h1>

    <p>Contents for footer section go here. Contents for footer section go here. Contents for footer section go here. Contents for footer section go here. Contents for footer section go here.</p>

    </div>

    </body>

    </html>


    As demonstrated by the above (X)HTML file, building appealing web page headers utilizing only one transparent background image is a simple-to-grasp approach, which logically has some pros and cons. Possibly one of the major benefits in using this technique rests in its versatility, since it allows you to easily change the background colors of the web page elements being styled with a corner effect without having to modify its original background image.

    Final thoughts

    Finally, we’ve come to the end of this series. As you learned by the different code samples shown in this bunch of tutorials, building rounded and angled corner effects by using some simple transparent background images is really a basic, yet effective, technique that can be used by any web designer who needs to spice up the look and feel of a web site to make it more attractive to its visitors.

    See you in the next web development tutorial!


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