[EventCalendar] EC css

[Alex Tingle]

amos,

On 21 Mar 2007, at 21:28, amos wrote:

> Thank you!
>
> As i waited for the answer, i googled the subject a bit and found more
> than one options to this effect. seems like the king of those scripts
> is "sweet titles" at http://www.dustindiaz.com/sweet-titles-finalized
> (demo: http://www.dustindiaz.com/basement/sweet-titles/). it is very
> light-weight and very simple. it is working with my very uniquely
> incompatible IE6 and so i believe it will work with most of the
> browsers. also - it is written in a very simple way and easy to
> understand. what i mean is that it is relatively easy to customize.

Good lead, thanks for sharing.


> so, after this huge advertisement to sweet titles (don't know how it
> came out this way...), here are my questions:
>
> a. were you inspired by or used this script in EC?

Nope. My popups are written from scratch. I did look at the way  
Nicetitles is implemented.


> b. if not, my opinion is that it is a good script to use. what do  
> you think?

I'm all for using other people's stuff, rather than writing my own.  
That said, Sweet Titles doesn't seem to do shadows.


> if managed to understand the code - and change it to my needs while
> leaving it valid, anyone can...

Yeah, I didn't write mine to be re-used. It was challenge enough just  
getting it working on all platforms. If you (or anyone) is keen to  
reuse my shadow popup code, then I could try to pull it out as a  
separate little thing of its own.

-Alex

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> On 3/21/07, Alex Tingle <alex at firetree.net> wrote:
>> Hi amos,
>>
>> On 21 Mar 2007, at 18:51, amos wrote:
>>
>> > i have a question:
>> >
>> > how do you achive the tipbox (the little box that appears when you
>> > mouse-over a dat in the calendar that has an event in it) css  
>> design?
>> >
>> > i mean mainly the shadow, the fixed size and the transperency.
>>
>> It's an absolute position table, that's positioned and hidden/
>> displayed by Javascript. Look in popup.js for the code.
>>
>> The shadow is done with three PNGs with alpha channels. There's some
>> non-standard nonsense required to make those work properly on IE.
>>
>> -Alex
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> > i digged in (just) a bit and saw that a table cell that contains  
>> a day
>> > with an event get the css class "ec3_eventday" and that the link
>> > itself gets the class "eventday" and that the content of the  
>> tooltip
>> > is in the "title" arrtitube of the anchor code.
>> >
>> > then i looked in the stylesheet, but couldn't really find those
>> > classes in it, except the color of the link with class  
>> "eventday". i
>> > did see a lot of popups and shadows thingies.
>> >
>> > is it a javascript driven effect? any other information on that?
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > amos
>> >
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