By Syed Fazle Rahman Create awesome transparent ghost buttons using Bootstrap buttons. This tutorial teaches you how to modify the existing Bootstrap code to generate ghost buttons.

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By Danny Markov

Everyone loves eye candy and smooth CSS3 animations. This is why today we are sharing our latest experiment with you – a collection of effects for revealing sharing buttons. You can use them in your portfolio, image galleries and more!

How they’re made

Most of the different transformations and effects on the demos are done exclusively via CSS, so they should appear bug and lag free (if you are running a modern browser). Here are some of the key components that made these effects possible:

• Transition – the transition property sets a duration of time in which CSS properties can transform their values gradually making HTML objects animate smoothly. Make sure to check out what its descendant properties do (such as “delay” and “timing-function”) and how to use them to your advantage.
• Transform – this lets you move, rotate, scale and basically do anything with the dimensions and position of your HTML elements. It’s powers aren’t limited only to a 2D plane but also work in 3D.
• Filter – another new CSS3 feature that enables developers to apply photographic effects on images thus making them black-and-white, blurred, saturated, and so on. Note that this property still requires the “-webkit-” prefix and doesn’t work in Firefox.

For one of the Demos we also used a fun jQuery plugin called jRumble. Give it a try – it’s awesome!

We hope you enjoy our collections of effects. Check out all the demos and tell us which is your favorite. As always, if you have any suggestions, questions or just want to share with us similar stuff – leave a comment below.

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By Danny Markov

Ever needed to add an icon to your design, but you didn’t want to include images or an entire icon font like Font Awesome into your page? We’ve got good news for you – there is a vast library of available icons and glyphs already in your browser. It is called Unicode, and it is a standard which assigns a unique identifier for an ever expanding number (currently over 110 000) of characters, symbols and icons.

This doesn’t mean that you have a choice of a hundred thousand icons, though. It is up to the browser to render them, and it uses the fonts which are installed on the system to do so. In this article, we’ve collected a number of symbols that are available across Windows, Linux, OS X, Android and iOS. You can use them in your web designs today!

Tip: There is a good article which explains everything you need to know about character encodings and unicode, which we recommend for every software developer to read.

How to use these icons

The icons given in the tables below, are regular characters, which you can copy and paste as if they are letters of text. But if the encoding used to save your HTML/CSS files is not UTF-8 they might not show up. This is why we’ve provided an HTML escape code, which will always work. Here is what you need to do to use these icons:

1. Find an icon that you like. We’ve provided small and large previews.
2. Copy the code.
3. Paste it in your HTML as regular text. In your CSS, you can use it as the value of the content property. In JS, PHP and other programming languages, you can use it as text in strings.
4. You can customize the icons by setting a font-size, color and text shadows, just like regular text.

Icon-like

Arrows

Special

Currency

Weather

Pointers

Card Suits

Chess

Maths

Fractions

Roman Numerals

A few notes

There are some rendering differences between these symbols across operating symbols. This is caused by the different font families that are used. Also, iOS and Android replace some Unicode characters with emoji, so be sure to test there to make sure that this doesn’t happen and the icons show as intended. Have fun coding! 🙂

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By Danny Markov

When you collect information from people through a form, applying some kind of validation is a must. Failing to do so could lead to lost customers, junk data in your database or even security exploits of your website. Historically, building form validation has been a pain. On the server side, this is made easier by full stack frameworks which handle it for you, but on the client you often end up with JavaScript libraries that take a lot of effort to integrate.

Thankfully, HTML5 gives us a number of features that can handle most of your validation needs. Forms in HTML5 now have built-in support for validation through the use of special attributes and new input types, and give you a lot of control over styling with CSS.

See an online demo here and read a quick overview of the basics behind HTML5 form validation below.

1. Specialized Input Types

HTML5 introduced several new input types. They can be used to create input boxes, which will accept only a specified kind of data.

The new input types are as follows:

• color
• date
• datetime
• datetime-local
• email
• month
• number
• range
• search
• tel
• time
• url
• week

To use one of the new types, include them as the value of the type attribute:

<input type="email"/>

If the browser does not support the given input type, the field will behave as a regular text input. Also, it’s helpful to know that some of the input fields (such as “email” and “tel”) will cause a mobile devices to open specialized keyboards with a limited set of keys, and not the full QUERTY layout.

For more details on all the input types, head out to this MDN wiki – here.

2. Required Fields

By simply adding the “required” attribute to a , or , you tell the browser that a value <b>must</b> be provided in this field. Think of this as the red asterisk<span>*</span> we see in most registration forms.</p> <pre><input type="checkbox" name="terms" required ></pre> <p>The problem here is that nearly any data will fulfill this requirement – for example you can bypass it with an empty space (we’ll show you how to prevent this in a moment).</p> <p>When you set the <strong>required</strong> attribute on email or url fields, the browser expects a certain pattern to be followed, but it’s very permissive and emails such as “z@zz” are considered valid (read on to see how to work around this).</p> <h3>3. Limits</h3> <p>We can set some basic limitations like max length and minimum and maximum values for number fields. To limit the length of input fields and textareas, use the “maxlength” attribute. What this does is to forbid any string longer than the field’s “maxlength” value to be entered at all. If you try and paste a string witch exceeds this limit, the form will simply clip it.</p> <pre><input type="text" name="name" required maxlength="15"></pre> <p>The fields use “max” and “min” attributes to create a range of possible values – in our example we’ve made the minimum allowed age to be 18 (too bad you can be whatever age you want on the internet).</p> <pre><input type="number" name="age" min="18" required></pre> <h3>4. Styling</h3> <p>CSS3 pseudo classes let us style any form field depending on its state. They are:</p> <ul> <li><code>:valid</code></li> <li><code>:invalid</code></li> <li><code>:required</code></li> <li><code>:optional</code></li> <li><code>:in-range</code></li> <li><code>:out-of-range</code></li> <li><code>:read-only</code></li> <li><code>:read-write</code></li> </ul> <p>This means that you can have required fields look one way, optional ones another and so on.</p> <p>In our demo we’ve combined the “valid” and “invalid” selectors with the “focus” pseudo class to color form fields red or green when the user selects them and starts typing.</p> <pre>input:focus:invalid, textarea:focus:invalid{ border:solid 2px #F5192F; } input:focus:valid, textarea:focus:valid{ border:solid 2px #18E109; background-color:#fff; }</pre> <h3>5. Tooltips</h3> <p>As you’ve probably noticed, when you try to submit a form that’s not correctly filled, a pop-up appears. By setting the “title” attribute of our fields, we can add additional hints on what values our rules validation expects.</p> <p>Note that different browsers display the pop-ups in differently. In Chrome, the title attribute value will appear under the main error-message text in smaller font. In Firefox it doesn’t show your custom tooltip text at all, unless you’ve used the “pattern” attribute as well, which then is taken as a pattern info.</p> <pre><input type="text" name="name" title="Please enter your user name."></pre> <p>The error boxes or their default content can’t be changed that simply and require the help of JavaScript, but that’s a whole other tutorial.</p> <h3>6. Patterns</h3> <p>The “<strong>pattern</strong>” attribute lets developers set a Regular Expression, which the browser will match against the user supplied input, before allowing the form to be submitted. This gives us great control over the data entries, since RegEx patterns can be quite complex and precise. 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