The following is a guest post by Steven Estrella. Steven shared with me a technique for creating customized range inputs by writing a little JavaScript atop some of the techniques explored here by Daniel Stern and others. I invited Steven to explain his approach.
Last year, Daniel Stern wrote a very useful article to demonstrate cross-browser styling of the HTML5 range input using nothing more than CSS and HTML. He even created a handy tool called range.css for generating the CSS. Sometimes, however, our designs may need to go beyond what is possible with CSS alone.
In the example below I wanted to experiment with what
