Christian Heilmann

Flexible CSS tabnavigation

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 at 4:51 pm

Update: judging by the comments below it seems it was not obvious that the JavaScipt is only needed to support MSIE. I added this even more obviously to the explanation text. Hopefully it is clearer now…

I was asked by a friend yesterday to review their company web site and was amazed to see table layouts with MM_ JavaScript rollover abominations still being paid good money for.

One of the arguments for the oldschool design was that they wanted “buttons” for navigation, and I promised to make a demo of a text/CSS navigation that does look like a nice graphical one and allow for font-resizing without breaking apart. It is nothing special, it has been done before but what the hey, have a look for yourself:

Proceed to the flexible navigation example

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