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gondo on Sept 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn How to make a Single Element iPhone in CSS3

about the 'impossible square' on the button, you can use content:'◻'; // http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25fb/index.htm and then just position it into middle, you ll know the rest

kushsolitary on Sept 8, 2012 | [–]

You are awesome, I just tried with '▢' character and made this: http://cssdeck.com/labs/wsuol0ff/0

Perfection!

Edit: I updated the codecast, check it now..

Edit Edit: The square is ridiculously big in Firefox... :-\

pirateking on Sept 8, 2012 | [–]

Awesome ending to an awesome tutorial. Great format for learning.

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