Animated Content Tabs with CSS3

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Content tabs are a very common and familiar element in web design, and often their turn out to be pretty useful. So, in this tutorial we are going to implement some simple CSS3 content tabs using radio buttons together with the :chec...

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At the risk if being down-voted into oblivion...

I love me some css, and I love me aesthetics extending beyond function. But the amount of superfluous css posts is getting ridiculous. We all know where to find these tutorials and demos without having to read about them continuously on the front page of HN.

Lovely tabs btw

Especially ones like this, where their utility is somewhere between awful & dubious, it's an interesting hack sure, but I don't think I saw the article clarify that it is a terrible idea!

If a developer ever came to me advocating abusing labels/inputs/checked/z-indexes this way for tabs they would have their marching orders pretty quickly!

I'm not a CSS guy so I'd like to see CSS3 and design posts. Even some of the "basic" stuff is useful to me. Personally, I'd like to see HN users focus more on the "developing skills" part, which includes coding, design, and building a business. Some of the inspirational stuff is good, but a lot of submissions are just tech news.

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