CSS Playing Cards

CSS Playing Cards help you to create simple and semantic playing cards in (X)HTML.

• @author Anika Henke anika@selfthinker.org
• @license CC BY-SA [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0]
• @version 2011-06-14
• @link http://selfthinker.github.com/CSS-Playing-Cards/

Contents

• cards.css is the main part and provides the styles for the cards
• cards-ie.css is a tiny fix for IE < 9 to make a simple version work
• cards-ie9.css is a fix for IE9
• examples.html provides some example HTML
• README.md is this file
• faces/ contains images for the faces

How to use it

Surrounding container

<div class="playingCards [fourColours|faceImages|simpleCards|inText|rotateHand]">
    ...
</div>

There needs to be a surrounding container with the class "playingCards" around all the cards. That container can also have other classes which serve as configuration options:

• fourColours: Switches the default two colour deck with a four colour deck. (The colours of the German four colour deck will be different.)
• faceImages: Switches the default dingbat symbols for faces with images. Note: Depending on the size of the card, you might need to adjust the image positioning of the faces in cards.css and the font-size in cards-ie9.css (search for "@change").
• simpleCards: Switches the default multiple suits to one simple single big suit in the middle.
• inText: Switches the size to something small enough to fit into normal text and also removes the inner bits.
• rotateHand: Switches the hand to rotate and fan in a semi circle.

The back of a card

<[element] class="card back">*</[element]>

To make the cards smaller or bigger, just change the font-size in the main "card" class in cards.css (search for "@change").

The front of a card

<[element] class="card rank-[2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|j|q|k|a] [diams|hearts|spades|clubs]">
    <[element] class="rank">[2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|J|Q|K|A]</[element]>
    <[element] class="suit">&[diams|hearts|spades|clubs];</[element]>
</[element]>

Depending on the context, the main card element should either be an a (for selecting single cards), a label (for selecting multiple cards), an abbr (for making a card more accessible with a title), a div or a span (for pure representation or played cards), e.g.

<[a|label|abbr|div|span] class="card rank-a clubs" [href=""] [title=""]>
    <span class="rank">A</span>
    <span class="suit">&clubs;</span>
    [<input type="checkbox" [...] />] <!-- if in label -->
</[a|label|abbr|div|span]>

A joker

<[element] class="card joker [big|little]">
    <[element] class="rank">[+|-]</[element]>
    <[element] class="suit">Joker</[element]>
</[element]>

Different hands

<ul class="[table|hand|deck]">
    <li>
        [<strong>] <!-- if selected -->
            ... card ...
        [</strong>]
    </li>
    ...
</ul>

• table places the whole cards side by side.
• hand places them side by side, but lets them overlap, so you will only see a part of each card. If the "rotateHand" option is enabled, you'll see the cards rotated in a semi circle.
• deck places the cards on top of each other, so that you cannot see single cards but a pack.

Requirements

The CSS is only intended to work in modern browsers (Firefox 3.6+, Opera 10+, Chrome, Safari, IE9). To make a basic version work in IE8, you need the provided cards-ie.css. And IE9 also needs a little fix, as provided in cards-ie9.css.

Credits

• The faces' images are taken from svg-cards
• One of the cards back images was taken from http://www.squidfingers.com/patterns/