A Pen by Alexander Salas.

Google-Hangouts-Stuff.markdown

Google Hangouts Stuff

Trying to replicate some effects from google hangouts chat. Turns out Flexbox is pretty useful for a lot of it.

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index.html

<section class="module">
  
  <header class="top-bar">
    
    <div class="left">
      <span class="icon typicons-message"></span>
      <h1>Hangouts</h1>
    </div>
    
    <div class="right">
      <span class="icon typicons-minus"></span>
      <span class="icon typicons-times"></span>
    </div>
    
  </header>
  
  <ol class="discussion">
    <li class="other">
      <div class="avatar">
        <img src="https://graph.facebook.com/717547131/picture" />
      </div>
      <div class="messages">
        <p>yeah, they do early flights cause they connect with big airports.  they wanna get u to your connection</p>
        <time datetime="2009-11-13T20:00">Timothy • 51 min</time>
      </div>
    </li>
    <li class="self">
      <div class="avatar">
        <img src="https://graph.facebook.com/162067913853726/picture" />
      </div>
      <div class="messages">
        <p>That makes sense.</p>
        <p>It's a pretty small airport.</p>
        <time datetime="2009-11-13T20:14">37 mins</time>
      </div>
    </li>
    <li class="other">
      <div class="avatar">
        <img src="https://graph.facebook.com/717547131/picture" />
      </div>
      <div class="messages">
        <p>that mongodb thing looks good, huh?</p>
        <p>
          tiny master db, and huge document store</p>
      </div>
    </li>
  </ol>
  
</section>

style.scss

@import "compass";
@import url(http://weloveiconfonts.com/api/?family=typicons);
[class*="typicons-"]:before {
  font-family: 'Typicons', sans-serif;
}

.module {
  width: 300px;
  margin: 20px auto;
}

.top-bar {
  background: #666;
  color: white;
  padding: 0.5rem;
  position: relative;
  overflow: hidden;
  h1 {
    display: inline;
    font-size: 1.1rem;
  }
  .typicons-message {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 4px 5px 2px 5px;
  }
  .typicons-minus {
    position: relative;
    top: 3px;
  }
  .left {
    float: left;
  }
  .right {
    float: right;
    padding-top: 5px;
  }
  > * {
    position: relative; 
  }
  &::before {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    top: -100%;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: -100%;
    opacity: 0.25;
    background: radial-gradient(white, black);
    animation: pulse 1s ease alternate infinite;
  }
}

.discussion {
  list-style: none;
  background: #e5e5e5;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 0 50px 0; // finality
  li {
    padding: 0.5rem;
    overflow: hidden;
    display: flex;
  }
  .avatar {
    width: 40px; // stronger than %
    // could set height, but gonna bottom-align instead
    position: relative; // for triangle
    img {
      display: block; // triangle position
      width: 100%;
    }
  }
}

.other {
  .avatar {
    &:after {
      content: "";
      position: absolute;
      top: 0;
      right: 0;
      width: 0;
      height: 0;
      border: 5px solid white;
      border-left-color: transparent;
      border-bottom-color: transparent;
    }
  }
}

.self {
  justify-content: flex-end;
  align-items: flex-end;
  .messages {
    order: 1;
    border-bottom-right-radius: 0; // weird shadow fix
  }
  .avatar {
    order: 2;
    &:after {
      content: "";
      position: absolute;
      bottom: 0;
      left: 0;
      width: 0;
      height: 0;
      border: 5px solid white;
      border-right-color: transparent;
      border-top-color: transparent;
      box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(black, 0.2); // not quite perfect but close
    }
  }
}

.messages {
  background: white;
  padding: 10px;
  border-radius: 2px;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(black, 0.2);
  p {
    font-size: 0.8rem;
    margin: 0 0 0.2rem 0;
  }
  time {
    font-size: 0.7rem;
    color: #ccc;
  }
}

@keyframes pulse {
  from { opacity: 0; }
  to { opacity: 0.5; }
}