Add CSS Brick/Box Cloud Style Label Widget To Blogger

Anonymous

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Blogger Labels helps to define articles into different categories. Labels are easy way to make clear navigation through whole blog. In this tutorial i will explain you have to add brick style labels in your blog. which helps to give attractive and stylish look to blog labels. This widget is totally made from css3 and take less time to load. Before implementation of this widget make sure that you have already added the label list in page elements. If you are not using labels then simply add label in layout and also change them into from list into cloud view

Steps To Use This widget

Change Label List view Into Cloud View just by editing the label widget in layout.

Then Go to Template section of your blog.

Click on Edit HTML and then paste below code just above ]]></b:skin>


/*CSS3 Bricks Style Labels By www.smarttricks.co.nr/ */

#textwidget {
color: #666;
font-size: 0.925em;
font-style: italic;
line-height: 1.6em
}

a.tag {
color: #777;
font: 9px verdana;
text-transform: uppercase;
transition: border-color .218s;
background: #f4f4f4;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 40%, 0% 70%, from(#F5F5F5), to(#F1F1F1));
display: inline-block;
text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
-webkit-transition: border-color .218s;
-moz-transition: border .218s;
-o-transition: border-color .218s;
transition: border-color .218s;
background: #f3f3f3;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 40%, 0% 70%, from(#F5F5F5), to(#F1F1F1));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(linear, 0% 40%, 0% 70%, from(#F5F5F5), to(#F1F1F1));
border: solid 1px #ccc;
border-radius: 2px;
-webkit-border-radius: 2px;
-moz-border-radius: 2px;
margin: 0 4px 4px 0;
padding: 3px 5px;
text-decoration: none
}

a.tag:hover {
color: #333;
border-color: #999;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 2px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) -webkit-box-shadow:0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.15)
}

a.tag:active {
color: #000;
border-color: #444
}

.slides {
font-size: 85%;
line-height: 130%;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
margin: 30px 0 10px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000
}
/*CSS3 Bricks Style Labels By www.Smarttricks.co.nr/ */

Now Search for Label1 and click on counting to close widget and it will look like

<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>...</b:widget>

After finding above matching code Simply replace it from <b:widget> </b:widget>with below code


<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels Cloud' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2>
<data:title/>
</h2>
</b:if>
<div class='textwidget'>
<div expr:class='&quot;widget-content &quot; + data:display + &quot;-label-widget-content&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:display == &quot;list&quot;'>
<ul>
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
<li>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:label.url'>
<span expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection'>
<data:label.name/>
</span>
<b:else/>
<a class='tag' expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:showFreqNumbers'>
<span dir='ltr'>(
<data:label.count/>)</span>
</b:if>
</li>
</b:loop>
</ul>
<b:else/>
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
<span expr:class='&quot;label-size label-size-&quot; + data:label.cssSize'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:label.url'>
<span expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection'>
<data:label.name/>
</span>
<b:else/>
<a class='tag' expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:showFreqNumbers'>
<span class='label-count' dir='ltr'>(
<data:label.count/>)</span>
</b:if>
</span>
</b:loop>
</b:if>
<b:include name='quickedit' />
</div>
</div>
</b:includable></b:widget>

After replacing save template settings and visit blog and see widget.

I hope you can easily able to implement this gadget to your blog without any issue. Otherwise If you face any problem must ask me in below comments.