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Date Display Technique With Sprites

LearningjQuery.com has a pretty cool presentation of the dates of their blog posts. Check it:

date display technique with sprites

The typeface and the year being vertical should tip you off right away that images are being used to accomplish this. But also note that the date information is presented as text, as it should be, in the markup:

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Sprites at Their Best

Hopefully it’s fairly obvious that each date doesn’t have it’s own unique graphic. The dates are pieced together from a single graphic (css sprites!), where different smaller parts of the graphic are shown in the three different regions ...


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