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diff --git a/build/stripe-menu-css/index.html b/build/stripe-menu-css/index.html index 44d7ef3..1f16e6e 100644 --- a/build/stripe-menu-css/index.html +++ b/build/stripe-menu-css/index.html @@ -1,39 +1,44 @@ <!doctype html> -<html lang="en" id="top"> +<html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="icon" href="data:,"> <title>Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)</title> - <link href="https://bt.ht/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> - <style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{overflow:auto;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}</style> + <link href="/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> + <link href="/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS feed for blog posts" /> +<style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1.33;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{border:1px solid;overflow:auto;padding:5px;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}.footnotes{font-size:90%;}</style> </head> <nav> - <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> + <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> </nav> <main> -<h1>Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)</h1> +<h1 id="stripe-menu-dropdowns-css">Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)</h1> + <p>2020-03-31</p> -<p>In a previous article I wrote, <a href="blog/minimal-css-menu">Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus</a>, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn't show just how complex (in a good way) you can make CSS-only menus. So, let's do just that.</p> -<h2>What we want to emulate</h2> -<p>I think, like most designers, that the UI and web design work from the <a href="https://stripe.com/">Stripe</a> team is pretty fantastic. Their clean approach using subtle animations and minimal elements make for a pleasant experience. Unfortunately, there is <i>one problem</i> with their current dropdown menus on their main website:</p> -<p><b>They don't work if JavaScript is disabled.</b></p> -<p>But we can easily fix that. So enough chit-chat, let's rip-off their menu design and recreate it with only CSS!</p> -<h3>Original (<a href="https://stripe.com">Stripe Website</a>)</h3> -<p><figure> - <img src="/public/images/stripe-default-menu.webp" alt="Stripe default menu"> - <figcaption>Stripe's default menu dropdown (using both CSS & JavaScript) (<a href="/public/images/stripe-default-menu.webp">direct link to image</a>)</figcaption> -</figure></p> -<h3>Our recreation (<a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/full/ExjMjLL">CodePen Demo</a>)</h3> -<p><figure> - <img src="/public/images/stripe-recreated.webp" alt="Stripe menu recreated"> - <figcaption>Our recreation with pure CSS (zero JavaScript) (<a href="/public/images/stripe-recreated.webp">direct link to image</a>)</figcaption> -</figure></p> -<p>Although our redesign is far from an exact replica (some subtle animations are missing which could always be added) - it's still impressive what you can do with some bare-bones CSS. Just something to keep in mind the next time you decide to reach for a JavaScript library to implement a similar design.</p> -<h2>See it live in action</h2> -<p>Load in the CodePen below and play around with the menu dropdown. Feel free to re-use, break. share or <i>steal</i> this for any and all purposes. Enjoy!</p> + +<p>In a previous article I wrote, <a href="blog/minimal-css-menu">Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus</a>, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn’t show just how complex (in a good way) you can make CSS-only menus. So, let’s do just that.</p> + +<h2 id="what-we-want-to-emulate">What we want to emulate</h2> + +<p>I think, like most designers, that the UI and web design work from the <a href="https://stripe.com/">Stripe</a> team is pretty fantastic. Their clean approach using subtle animations and minimal elements make for a pleasant experience. Unfortunately, there is one problem with their current dropdown menus on their main website:</p> + +<p>They don’t work if JavaScript is disabled.</p> + +<p>But we can easily fix that. So enough chit-chat, let’s rip-off their menu design and recreate it with only CSS!</p> + +<h3 id="original-stripe-website">Original (<a href="https://stripe.com">Stripe Website</a>)</h3> + +<h3 id="our-recreation-codepen-demo">Our recreation (<a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/full/ExjMjLL">CodePen Demo</a>)</h3> + +<p>Although our redesign is far from an exact replica (some subtle animations are missing which could always be added) - it’s still impressive what you can do with some bare-bones CSS. Just something to keep in mind the next time you decide to reach for a JavaScript library to implement a similar design.</p> + +<h2 id="see-it-live-in-action">See it live in action</h2> + +<p>Load in the CodePen below and play around with the menu dropdown. Feel free to re-use, break. share or steal this for any and all purposes. Enjoy!</p> + <p><a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/ExjMjLL">Live CodePen Example</a></p> <footer role="contentinfo"> <h2>Menu Navigation</h2> |