Twitter style buttons with CSS3 and Compass v0.9

This cool recipe for SASS (Compass) lets you combine and create practically an infinite number of combinations that generate twitter style buttons.

Additionally you can also include an icon next to your text, keeking your code neat and clean. This recipes use the Iconic typace by Some Random Dude. No images are used at all in the making of this buttons.

Demo

Don't forget to check the live demo

Install

Install the buttons module with:

@import "twitter_buttons";

Move the folder fonts to the root of your Rail project.

Configurable Variables

twitter_button(color-background, text-color, border-radius, font-size, icon-type)

Mixin

                a.default{
                @include twitter_button();
                }
                /*/Default settings /*/
                
                
                a.green{
                @include twitter_button(#00AE3E, #fff, 5px,12px)
                }
                /*/ Custom background color, custom text color, custom border-radius, custom font size, no icon /*/
                
                
                a.red{
                @include twitter_button(#c63738,#fff, 0,0)
                }
                /*/ Custom background color, custom text color, default border-radius, default font size, no icon /*/
                
                
                a.violet{
                @include twitter_button(0,#000)
                }
                /*/ Default background color, custom text color,default border-radius, default font size, no icon  /*/
				
				
				a.icon_home{
                @include twitter_button(#00A0B0, #fff, 5px,12px,'!')
                }
                /*/ Custom background color, custon text color, custom border-radius, custom font size, home icon /*/
                
                
                a.icon_arrow-right 
				{@include twitter_button(0, 0, 5px,12px, "4") 
				}
				/*/ Default background color, default text color, custom border-radius, custom font size, right arrow icon  /*/

For a full list of available icons please check the Demo.

Changelog

• 24/06/2011 - Fixed some bugs, add support to Opera gradients, Fixed the Typo weird bug in Safari
• 12/01/2011 - First release
• 12/01/2011 - Include the SASS files

Todo

• Make a better :hover :visited state
• Find a solution for IE9 Border-radius and Background Gradient Bleeding

Licence

Copyright (c) 2011 Alexis Sgavel (http://github.com/Baires)

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