Let’s try and code this out … plus demo …
Ok, this post is going to be on english.
- I saw this randomly .psd, and decided to convert it to css3 without using a single image.
- Mainly to try it out, practice and experiment.
Let’s start:
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="box">
<a class="button" title="" href="#">Submit</a></div>
</div><!-- End of Box -->
</div><!-- End of Container -->
CSS
/*
Author: Ivo Culic - ifkas
Author URI: http://www.tajfa.com
Item URI: http://www.tajfa.com/primeri/css3lightskybluebutton
Item Name: Lightsky Blue CSS3 Buttons
Purpose: Practice to style with CSS3
Version: 1.0
*/
/*
TOC
00 - Resets
01 - General
02 - Button
01- main
02- text shadows
03- gradients
04- borders
05- box shadows
06- hover
07- focus,active
*/
/*
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========== RESETS =============
===============================
*/
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-weight: inherit;
font-style: inherit;
font-size: 100%;
font-family: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
text-decoration:none;
}
.clear {clear:both;}
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
/*
===============================
========== GENERAL ============
===============================
*/
body {
background: url(../img/bg.jpg) repeat #fcfcfc;
}
.container {
width: 600px;
margin: 50px auto;
}
.box {
/* Left as option */
}
/*
===============================
========== BUTTON =============
===============================
*/
a.button {
padding: 15px 100px 20px 30px;
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 24px;
font-weight: bold;
background-color: #2fa2ee;
letter-spacing: -1px;
/* Text Color and Shadow */
color: #107fc9;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px #ffffff, 2px 1px 5px #ffffff;
/* Gradients */
background-image: linear-gradient(bottom, #8DCCF6 10%, #CCE8FB 78%, #DEF0FC 93%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(bottom, #8DCCF6 10%, #CCE8FB 78%, #DEF0FC 93%);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, #8DCCF6 10%, #CCE8FB 78%, #DEF0FC 93%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, #8DCCF6 10%, #CCE8FB 78%, #DEF0FC 93%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(bottom, #8DCCF6 10%, #CCE8FB 78%, #DEF0FC 93%);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0.1, #8DCCF6), color-stop(0.78, #CCE8FB), color-stop(0.93, #DEF0FC));
/* Border */
border: 2px solid #acdaf8;
border-bottom: 1px solid #0c588b;
border-left: 1px solid #74acd2;
border-right: 1px solid #74acd2;
border-radius: 13px;
/* Box Shadows */
box-shadow: 0 8px #e3e3e3, inset 0 -1px #0c588b, inset 0 -8px #2fa2ee, inset 0 -10px #c9e7fa, inset 0 1px #f2f7fa;
/* Fixing the bleed edges of corners */
-moz-background-clip: padding;
-webkit-background-clip: padding-box;
background-clip: padding-box;
}
/* ON HOVER */
a.button:hover {
background-image: linear-gradient(bottom, #ACDAF8 2%, #EBF6FD 64%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(bottom, #ACDAF8 2%, #EBF6FD 64%);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, #ACDAF8 2%, #EBF6FD 64%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, #ACDAF8 2%, #EBF6FD 64%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(bottom, #ACDAF8 2%, #EBF6FD 64%);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0.02, #ACDAF8), color-stop(0.64, #EBF6FD));
}
/* ON ACTIVE */
/* Strange behaviour with focus on chrome browser, if we use tab somehow works */
a.button:active, a.button:focus {
padding: 15px 100px 15px 30px;
top: 2px;
background-image: linear-gradient(bottom, #107FC9 37%, #0B578A 89%);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(bottom, #107FC9 37%, #0B578A 89%);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, #107FC9 37%, #0B578A 89%);
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, #107FC9 37%, #0B578A 89%);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(bottom, #107FC9 37%, #0B578A 89%);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0.37, #107FC9), color-stop(0.89, #0B578A));
box-shadow: 0 3px #e3e3e3, inset 0 -1px #45a0dc, inset 0 1px #2384c5, inset -1px 0 #4dafef, inset 1px 0 #4dafef; /* Adding multiple 5 shadows, 1 outer and 4 inner */
color: #0b578a;
text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #57a9df, 0 1px 0 #57a9df;
border: 1px solid #135b8c;
}
/* EOF */
TO DO:
- separate the gradients and colors so in future can have different colors (for example button green etc.)
- apply css3 pie so can be rendered in all previous IE browsers.






Great post. I can only hope others can learn from this.
Thanks, me too. Thats why I posted and shared all this.