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Posted by jlbdoc95 on 11/12/95 11:22
If the color difference is not that great, you might be able to get away and
keep the same "text image" for all different states (on/off/hover). If you
designer can get the text in a transparent fashion so that it looks good
against all 3 background, then that will simplify the coding quite a bit,
otherwise, good old roll overs might save you some headaches for sure.
"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
news:26jde199b123plf4n6c0eti4fmn1f6jlq9@4ax.com...
>I need a menu bar - the "tabbed folders" look, nothing particularly
> odd. A highlighted tab for "current" and rollover highlighting too.
>
> If this were for my own site, I'd do something like the "sliding doors"
> CSS version and be done in minutes. I'd have nice
> semantically-meaningful HTML and very few images too.
>
> However the dezyner on this project has specified a weird font for the
> tabs which I can't render from text and standard web fonts. So it looks
> like I'm reduced to using bitmaps for each tab.
>
> This is my dilemma - is there any way to use CSS bitmap rollovers _and_
> have a text string in the HTML ?
>
> I like the sliding doors approach because the text re-sizes on demand
> and I don't have to generate 30 bitmaps. In the future there will be new
> tabs and it would be nice to have them come straight from the database,
> not Photoshop. However if I want this crazy font, am I really reduced
> to just a triplet of fixed-size bitmaps for each tab ? Is that really
> the best I can hope for ?
>
> Font sizes are set in pixels (10px !) according to the design and the
> tabs are fixed width. Usability is obviously poor, but that's not the
> customer's priority.
>
> Maybe I should go with <img> and ChavaScript rollovers for a quiet life
> - it's clearly what they're happiest with.
>
>
> All comments welcome
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