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Revision: 24259
at February 24, 2010 11:57 by adamcoulombe
Initial Code 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Pure CSS Web 2.0 Comment Bubbles</title>


<style type="text/css">
body { font:20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
.bubble1 { overflow:hidden; margin:20px; }
.bubble1 .speach { background-color:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; padding:20px; }
.bubble1 .arrow{ float:right; margin-right:15px; width:0; height:0; border-left: 10px solid transparent;  border-right: 10px solid transparent; border-top: 10px solid #000000; border-bottom: 0; }
.bubble2 { overflow:hidden; margin:20px; }
.bubble2 .speach { background-color:#d9ecfb; color:#486175; padding:20px; }
.bubble2 .arrow{ float:right; margin-right:15px; width:0; height:0; border-left: 15px solid transparent;  border-right: 15px solid #d9ecfb; border-bottom: 15px solid transparent; border-top: 0; }
.bubble3 { overflow:hidden; margin:20px; position:relative; }
.bubble3 .speach { background-color:#ebe5d2; color:#7b6f49; padding:20px; margin-left:15px; }
.bubble3 .arrow{ width:0; height:0; border-left: 0px solid transparent;  border-right: 15px solid #ebe5d2; border-bottom: 15px solid transparent; border-top: 0; position:absolute; left:0px; top:10px; }
.bubble4 { overflow:hidden; margin:20px; position:relative; }
.bubble4 .speach { background-color:#dfebd2; color:#526340; padding:20px; margin-right:15px; }
.bubble4 .arrow{ width:0; height:0; border-right: 0px solid transparent;  border-left: 15px solid #dfebd2; border-top: 15px solid transparent; border-bottom: 0; position:absolute; right:0px; bottom:10px; }
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div class="bubble bubble1">
<div class="speach">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. </div>
<div class="arrow"></div>
</div>
<div class="bubble bubble2">
<div class="speach">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. </div>
<div class="arrow"></div>
</div>
<div class="bubble bubble3">
<div class="speach">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. </div>
<div class="arrow"></div>
</div>

<div class="bubble bubble4">
<div class="speach">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. </div>
<div class="arrow"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Initial URL 
http://www.adamcoulombe.info/lab/css/comment-bubbles.html
Initial Description 
This implements a pure CSS technique for creating triangles. A great practical usage of this is Web 2.0 style comment/speach bubbles. Demo: http://www.adamcoulombe.info/lab/css/comment-bubbles.html
Initial Title 
Pure CSS Web 2.0 Style Comment Bubbles
Initial Tags 
css, web
Initial Language 
CSS