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Skin a Button instance to create a glossy, glass-like effect with a glowing background reminiscent of Aqua buttons found in Mac OS X.

 


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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>


    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Glowing Button</title>

<style type="text/css">
/*margin and padding on body element
  can introduce errors in determining
  element position and are not recommended;
  we turn them off as a foundation for YUI
  CSS treatments. */
body {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
}
</style>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yui_2.7.0b-lib/fonts/fonts-min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yui_2.7.0b-lib/menu/assets/skins/sam/menu.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="yui_2.7.0b-lib/button/assets/skins/sam/button.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/animation/animation-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/container/container_core-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/menu/menu-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/element/element-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui_2.7.0b-lib/button/button-min.js"></script>


<!--begin custom header content for this example-->
<style type="text/css">

    .yui-button {
    
        border-width: 1px 0;
        border-style: solid;
        border-color: #004d89;
        margin: auto .25em;

        /*
            Give the Button instance a transparent background image that 
            provides a glossy, glass-like look.  Since the background image is
            transparent, it can apply the glass effect the Button instance
            regardless of its background color.
        */
        background: url(yui_2.7.0b-assets/button-assets/gloss.png) repeat-x left center;
        
    }

    .ie6 {
    
        /* Make background image transparent IE 6 using the AlphaImageLoader. */
        background-image: none;
        filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='yui_2.7.0b-assets/button-assets/gloss.png', sizingMethod = 'scale');
    
    }

    .yui-button .first-child {
    
        border-width: 0 1px;
        border-style: solid;
        border-color: #004d89;
        margin: 0 -1px;

    /*
      Using negative margins for rounded corners won't work in IE 6 and 
      IE 7 (Quirks Mode Only), so set the "margin" property to "0" for 
      those browsers.
    */
     _margin: 0;
    
    }
    
    .yui-button button,
    .yui-button a {
    
        padding: 0 10px;
        font-size: 93%;  /* 12px */
        line-height: 2;  /* ~24px */
        *line-height: 1.7; /* For IE */
        min-height: 2em; /* For Gecko */
        *min-height: auto; /* For IE */
        color: #fff;
        border: solid 1px #599acd;
    
    }

    .yui-button#ok-button {
        
        background-color: #004d89;
    
    }

</style>
<!--end custom header content for this example-->

</head>

<body class=" ">


<h1>Glowing Button</h1>

<div class="exampleIntro">
  <p>
This example demonstrates how to skin a Button instance to create a glossy, 
glass-like effect with a glowing background reminiscent of Aqua buttons 
found in Mac OS X.
</p>      
</div>

<!--BEGIN SOURCE CODE FOR EXAMPLE  -->

<script type="text/javascript">

    YAHOO.util.Event.onContentReady("buttoncontainer", function () {

        // Create a new Button instance

        var oButton = new YAHOO.widget.Button({ 
                                            id: "ok-button", 
                                            label: "OK", 
                                            container: "buttoncontainer" });


        /*
            Begin animating the Button instance's background color once it is 
            appended to its containing element.
        */

        oButton.on("appendTo", function () {

            /*
                Apply a special CSS class to be able to target IE 6 
                specifically in the CSS.
            */

            if (YAHOO.env.ua.ie == 6) {
            
                oButton.addClass("ie6");
            
            }
    

            // Create a new ColorAnim instance

            var oButtonAnim = new YAHOO.util.ColorAnim("ok-button", { backgroundColor: { to: "#b1ddff" } });
    

            /*
                Restart the color animation each time the target color has 
                been applied.
            */ 

            oButtonAnim.onComplete.subscribe(function () {
    
                this.attributes.backgroundColor.to = (this.attributes.backgroundColor.to == "#b1ddff") ? "#016bbd" : "#b1ddff";
            
                this.animate();
            
            });
            
            oButtonAnim.animate();
        
        });
    
    });

</script>

<div id="buttoncontainer"></div>
<!--END SOURCE CODE FOR EXAMPLE  -->

</body>
</html>
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