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layout: post
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title: Using <kbd> for fun and profit
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image: kremalicious-kbdfun-teaser.png
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style: poststyle-2300.min.css
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author: Matthias Kretschmann
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featured: true
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date: 2012-07-16 14:36:58+00:00
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wordpress_id: 2300
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categories:
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- design
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- goodies
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---
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There's this HTML element meant for marking up keyboard keys named `<kbd>`. Obviously it can be styled with CSS so why not use it to make those elements look a bit more like hardware or the iOS and Android software keys.
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The above picture might be blurry depending on the device you're using so here's a live rendered demo:
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<kbd>Light</kbd> <kbd class="dark">Dark</kbd> <kbd class="ios">iOS</kbd> <kbd class="android">An</kbd> <kbd class="android dark">dro</kbd> <kbd class="android color">id</kbd>
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They are completely styled with CSS3 so they're sharp on all screens no matter how high the dpi. Have a look at the [full demo](http://lab.kremalicious.com/kbdfun/) or grab the project folder with the CSS & LESS files from GitHub. The code is under the MIT license so you're free to use it in any personal or commercial project.
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<p class="clearfix">
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<a class="btn btn-primary col2" href="http://lab.kremalicious.com/kbdfun/">Demo</a>
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<a class="btn btn-primary col2 icon icon-download" href="https://github.com/kremalicious/kbdfun/zipball/master">Download</a>
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<a class="btn col2 icon icon-github" href="https://github.com/kremalicious/kbdfun/">Github</a>
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</p>
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## Usage
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### CSS
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Just drop in the kbdftw.css in your `head`:
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{% highlight html %}<link rel="stylesheet" href="kbdfun.css">{% endhighlight %}
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If you want to use the Android key style, include roboto.css before:
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{% highlight html %}<link rel="stylesheet" href="roboto.css">
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="kbdfun.css">{% endhighlight %}
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You also need to add all the Roboto font files from assets/fonts to your project.
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### LESS
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There're some variables in the kbdfun.less file you can customize.
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For the Android style, there's roboto.less as include at the end. But the font files won't load unless you uncomment the .font-roboto line in kbdftw.less. This is to make sure, users won't download all the font files if you don't use the Android style.
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### Markup
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The default styling are light keys with Lucida Grande as font:
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{% highlight html %}<kbd>Q</kbd>{% endhighlight %} becomes <kbd>Q</kbd>
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Add a dark class to get the dark keys:
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{% highlight html %}<kbd class="dark">Q</kbd>{% endhighlight %} becomes <kbd class="dark">Q</kbd>
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Adding an ios or android class gives a replica of those system keys. Android uses three different colors on the default keyboard.
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{% highlight html %}<kbd class="ios">Q</kbd>{% endhighlight %} becomes <kbd class="ios">Q</kbd>
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{% highlight html %}<kbd class="android">Q</kbd>{% endhighlight %} becomes <kbd class="android">Q</kbd>
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{% highlight html %}<kbd class="android dark">Q</kbd>{% endhighlight %} becomes <kbd class="android dark">Q</kbd>
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{% highlight html %}<kbd class="android color">Q</kbd>{% endhighlight %} becomes <kbd class="android color">Q</kbd>
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I've let the default `display: inline` intact so all padding on the `kbd` elements won't affect the line-height of the surrounding text. This leads to problems when you want to use them over multiple lines so just make them `display: inline-block` in this scenario.
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Pro Tip: if you want to replicate all Mac keyboards after 2003 you have to get VAG rounded for the font. |