jdan / 98.css

A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
https://jdan.github.io/98.css
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Style.css: Added support for a vertical bar #67

Closed jacob-macleod closed 4 years ago

jacob-macleod commented 4 years ago

A vertical bar is an element that was used quite a lot in windows 98. This code makes it easy to do so...

jdan commented 4 years ago

Hey! Wanna drop a screenshot?

jacob-macleod commented 4 years ago

Yep: Screenshot 2020-04-26 at 10 05 44 PM

This is an example of how I used this element in a separate, personal project.

jacob-macleod commented 4 years ago

Yes, I have changed both those things and updated the pull request.

jdan commented 4 years ago

Great work, thank you!

I'll merge this as-is and we'll see if it gets any usage :) Is this element used solely in menu bars? If we ever build one of those we'll have to add it the docs.

jacob-macleod commented 4 years ago

Looking at various images, it looks like this element is also used on menus in programs like internet explorer (see image), to separate out different sections of the design Screenshot 2020-04-27 at 4 47 03 PM

veleek commented 4 years ago

@jdan - for draggable/organizable menus this bar is used as a drag handle.

Here's the equivalent in the current version of VS: image