Tag Archives: User Interface

Improving the Date Picker User Interface (UI)

Date pickers have become ubiquitous user interface elements in online forms. If you do not know what date pickers are, they are those interactive calendars that pop up to assist you when selecting a date. They are not useful in … Continue reading

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The Google Maps Tooltip Gets a Shadow (and HTML Support)

In the spirit of consistency, I decided to add a shadow to the tooltips (View the example). They just didn’t blend in with the rest of the Google Maps overlays. So I set out to replicate the “standard” Google Maps … Continue reading

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Improved CSS Styling for Visited Links

I was recently checking my site traffic reports to see where my visitors were coming from and I found a mind-blowing (at least for me) CSS technique for visited links. Eva-Lotta Lam uses a check mark background image for visited … Continue reading

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Custom Tooltips for the Google Maps API

Welcome to my JavaScript blog, onemarco.com, or as I like to call it, Blog de Alionso. I’ve been developing with JavaScript for about six months now and I’ve learned so much from others’ blogs. I’ll be sharing some of the … Continue reading

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