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Simple and effective dropdown login box

Web users log in every day, so imagine how many times log in forms are being used in a single day. Usually, it don’t take too much to fill a form like this, but using a dropdown solution will speed up things for you.


The concept

The main purpose is to avoid waiting to load a separate page in order to log in. This way you can increase user experience, as the user has the possibility to log in immediately.

Ingredients

Remember the CSS3 buttons we’ve created using HTML entities as icons? In this article we’ll use entities again to show an arrow that indicates the current state for our dropdown log in box: expanded/collapsed.
Comparing to the latest HTML5 & CSS3 login tutorial you’ve seen here, this one uses some jQuery code to animate the box when clicking on the log in button.
Also, HTML5 new form features do not miss here.

HTML

Here’s the markup we’ll use to create our CSS3 dropdown log in:

 

<nav>
   <ul>
	<li id="login">
	<a id="login-trigger" href="#">
				Log in <span>▼</span>
			</a> 
 <div id="login-content">
	<form>
	<fieldset id="inputs">
		<input id="username" type="email" name="Email" placeholder="Your email address" required>   
		<input id="password" type="password" name="Password" placeholder="Password" required>
					</fieldset> 
 
 <fieldset id="actions">
		<input type="submit" id="submit" value="Log in">
		<label>
<input type="checkbox" checked="checked"> 
 Keep me signed in
 </label>
			</fieldset>
				</form>
			</div>                     
		</li>
		<li id="signup">
			<a href="">Sign up FREE</a>
		</li>
	</ul>
</nav>



CSS

There are quite a lot of CSS lines, but I think is worth it:

nav ul {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
  position: relative;
  float: right;
  background: #eee;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
  border-radius: 3px;    
}

nav li {
  float: left;          
}

nav #login {
  border-right: 1px solid #ddd;
  -moz-box-shadow: 1px 0 0 #fff;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 0 0 #fff;
  box-shadow: 1px 0 0 #fff;  
}

nav #login-trigger,
nav #signup a {
  display: inline-block;
  *display: inline;
  *zoom: 1;
  height: 25px;
  line-height: 25px;
  font-weight: bold;
  padding: 0 8px;
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #444;
  text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff; 
}

nav #signup a {
  -moz-border-radius: 0 3px 3px 0;
  -webkit-border-radius: 0 3px 3px 0;
  border-radius: 0 3px 3px 0;
}

nav #login-trigger {
  -moz-border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px;
  border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px;
}

nav #login-trigger:hover,
nav #login .active,
nav #signup a:hover {
  background: #fff;
}

nav #login-content {
  display: none;
  position: absolute;
  top: 24px;
  right: 0;
  z-index: 999;    
  background: #fff;
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#fff),
 to(#eee));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #fff, #eee);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #fff, #eee);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #fff, #eee);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #fff, #eee);
  background-image: linear-gradient(top, #fff, #eee);  
  padding: 15px;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 2px 2px -1px rgba(0,0,0,.9);
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 2px 2px -1px rgba(0,0,0,.9);
  box-shadow: 0 2px 2px -1px rgba(0,0,0,.9);
  -moz-border-radius: 3px 0 3px 3px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px 0 3px 3px;
  border-radius: 3px 0 3px 3px;
}

nav li #login-content {
  right: 0;
  width: 250px;  
}

/*--------------------*/

#inputs input {
  background: #f1f1f1;
  padding: 6px 5px;
  margin: 0 0 5px 0;
  width: 238px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 1px #ccc inset;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 1px #ccc inset;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 1px #ccc inset;
}

#inputs input:focus {
  background-color: #fff;
  border-color: #e8c291;
  outline: none;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #e8c291 inset;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #e8c291 inset;
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #e8c291 inset;
}

/*--------------------*/

#login #actions {
  margin: 10px 0 0 0;
}

#login #submit {		
  background-color: #d14545;
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#e97171),
 to(#d14545));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #e97171, #d14545);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #e97171, #d14545);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #e97171, #d14545);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #e97171, #d14545);
  background-image: linear-gradient(top, #e97171, #d14545);
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.5);
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 
inset;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 
 inset;
  box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset;    
  border: 1px solid #7e1515;
  float: left;
  height: 30px;
  padding: 0;
  width: 100px;
  cursor: pointer;
  font: bold 14px Arial, Helvetica;
  color: #fff;
}

#login #submit:hover,
#login #submit:focus {		
  background-color: #e97171;
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#d14545),
 to(#e97171));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #d14545, #e97171);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #d14545, #e97171);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #d14545, #e97171);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #d14545, #e97171);
  background-image: linear-gradient(top, #d14545, #e97171);
}	

#login #submit:active {		
  outline: none;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) inset;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) inset;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) inset;		
}

#login #submit::-moz-focus-inner {
  border: none;
}

#login label {
  float: right;
  line-height: 30px;
}

#login label input {
  position: relative;
  top: 2px;
  right: 2px;
}
 

jQuery

The following code is quite self-explanatory. The if…else statement helps us indicate the current state for the log in box. It basically toggle the span‘s inner HTML between ▼ and ▲.

$(document).ready(function(){
	$('#login-trigger').click(function(){
		$(this).next('#login-content').slideToggle();
		$(this).toggleClass('active');					
		
		if ($(this).hasClass('active')) $(this).find('span')
.html('&#x25B2;')
			else $(this).find('span').html('&#x25BC;')
		})
});
 

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Rohit Tripathi

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