December 7, 2010

The most semantic way of making this container

Question by theorise

I want to make the following shape using divs and border radius, with fall back to square corners for old browsers. No images please.

I am having a bit of trouble making the bottom corner next to the title (highlighted with the red box). I don’t want a lot of unnecessary divs, it has to be as simple and semantic as possible.
alt text

<div class="container">
   <div class="header">Title</div>
   <div class="body">Content</div>
</div>

.container{width: 660px; background: #fff;}
.container .header{float: left; width: 110px; background: #333; border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;}
.container .body{clear: left; width: 660px; background: #333; border-radius: 0 0 5px 5px;}

Any ideas?

EDIT 1:

I did it like this: http://jsfiddle.net/a93Rb/16/

<div class="container">
    <div class="header"></div>
    <div class="headerspacer">
       <div class="headercorner"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="body"></div>
</div>

.container{width: 660px; background: #fff;}
.container .header{float: left; width: 110px; height: 30px; background: #333; border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0;}  
.container .headerspacer{float: left; position: relative; width: 550px; height: 30px; background: #333;} 
    .container .headerspacer .headercorner{ position: absolute; width: 550px; height: 30px; background: #fff; border-radius: 0 0 0 10px;} 
.container .body{clear: left; width: 660px; height: 100px; background: #333; border-radius: 0 0 10px 10px;}

EDIT 2:

I am going to use this method: http://jsfiddle.net/a93Rb/13/

I also found a method of using an image which will not appear if the browser does not support rounded corners. It is much more semantic, and the whole point of using border-radius is to negate unnecessary markup. I think I will actually use this method, but I won’t accept it as an answer as I stated that I do not want images.

<div class="container">
    <div class="header"></div>
    <div class="body"></div>
</div> 

.container{width: 660px; background: #fff;}
.container .header{float: left; width: 110px; height: 30px; background: #333; border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0;}                                  
.container .header:after{content: url(http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1112/corner0.gif); display: block; margin: 20px 0 0 110px;}
.container .body{clear: left; width: 660px; height: 100px; background: #333; border-radius: 0 0 10px 10px;}

Answer by alxx

My idea was white rounded div with dark background under bottom left corner. (I can’t get it to work myself, so it would be great to see result 🙂 )

Answer by Starx

Here is your pure CSS solution http://jsfiddle.net/Starx/a93Rb/, only compatible with FF for now. You can make it compatible for the remaining browsers.

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