Posts Tagged css

Adding Emphasis with jQuery

Decreasing the emphasis of elements lower on the visible screen provides a less distracting environment for your users.

Many websites these days are very graphic intensive, have a ton of contrast between content the the background, or are simply overly complicated. One method to reduce this visual noise and provide a more harmonic user experience would be to downplay elements on the screen that the user is likely not paying attention to.

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Faster Development with Mach-II’s View Tag Library

Mach-II offers several tag libraries to aid in fast application development. The view tag library reduces the time spent in writing mundane or complicated code in your views.

A major headache that many developers experience when coding their Mach-II views is the fact that they end up writing and re-writing the same (or similar) complex code in order to output simple elements like anchor tags or alternating row colors in a list or table.

Luckily, since version 1.8, Mach-II offers the view tag library to not only help reduce the amount of code required in each view, but make the code easier to read and look cleaner.

Mach-II View Tag Library

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Getting to know the HtmlHelperProperty

Use Mach-II’s HtmlHelperProperty to manage JavaScript and CSS and avoid duplication of external scripts, reduce maintenance costs, and promote reusability.

The HtmlHelperProperty is a simple and efficient way to include JavaScript, CSS, and various meta information to your pages when you’re working in a MVC environment. One of the biggest challenges when working with two or more included views is managing each distinct view’s JavaScript and CSS dependencies.

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