The sliding door technique basically uses two images stacked up next to each other.
Sliding door css technique.
One for the left one for the right.
The sliding doors technique.
Css sliding door using only 1 image may 27th 2008 in css tutorials by kailoon before i know about this technique i was using different images for each of the button i needed in a navigation bar.
We have border radius now and gradient backgrounds and all that which unlock most of what we were trying to achieve back in the day of sliding doors.
In part ii we ll push the technique even further.
Sliding doors is a pretty old technique.
Sliding doors of css part i introduced a new technique for creating visually stunning interface elements with simple text based semantic markup.
One image is long over which the text is laid and the other image closes the other side.
Beautifully crafted truly flexible interface components which expand and contract with the size of the text can be created if we use two separate background images.
In part ii he pushes the technique even further with rollovers a fix for ie win s css bugs and lots more.
It had its time on the web but it s probably not the smartest way to go these days.
Think of these two images as sliding doors that complete one doorway.