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Natalie Maclees
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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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Time for action – adding some final touches


Perform the following steps to add some finishing touches to our FAQ list:

  1. Let's start with some simple CSS code to add a small arrow icon to the left side of our questions. Head back into style.css and modify the styles a bit to add an arrow as follows:

    .jsOn dt:before {
      border: 0.5em solid;
      border-color: transparent transparent transparent #f2eeef;
      content: '';
      display: inline-block;
      height: 0;
      margin-right: 0.5em;
      vertical-align: middle;
      width: 0;
    }
    
    .jsOn dt:hover:before {
      border-left-color: #ac92ec;
    }

    You might be wondering about this sort of odd bit of CSS. This is a technique to create triangles in pure CSS without having to use any images. If you're not familiar with this technique, I recommend checking out appendTo's blog post that explains pure CSS triangles at http://appendto.com/2013/03/pure-css-triangles-explained/.

    We've also included a hover style so that the triangle will match the text color when the site visitor...

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Natalie Maclees

contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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