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How to split a div element along with contents in it? (In a particular shape)

I am trying to create a web design with a unique shape. This is a simple coming soon template with the top left corner for info button and the bottom right corner for contact button. The green center area for the logo and other basic stuff.
The basic layout looks like this. I did this by creating 3 div elements. When it comes to the background color, this is fine. But the challenge is that I want those white pieces are like cut off from the green one. Something like this.
I also wish to have an output similar to the above image when it comes to playing a slideshow or Youtube/Vimeo video or custom video.
This is a Youtube video playing on the green area. But not the way I want it to be.
I want the final output to look similar to this. On the body background a pattern or a small animating pattern. Above that the cut-out layout and over that custom design another darker pattern to make it bit more attractive.
I know I am asking a lot here. But I never see any such design with a splitting of something from parent div (I did try overflow method, it didn't work or I missed something.) On top of this, the design should be responsive and the size of cutoffs (white triangles) must decrease in size with the very smaller displays.
I really need help from you guys. Thank you so much in advance.

Animated pop-up like on wunderlist.com

I've came across wunderlist.com site and just fell in love with the zoom-like pop-up they have on the image just beneath the header "Learn more about Wunderlist".
I'd love to implement something like this on my site.
Can somebody tell me how this is done? I tried to reverse-engineer, but with no luck :)
I'm not hoping for the whole ready code, but maybe some guidelines on how to achieve this with CSS/jQuery.
Or maybe you know some jQuery plugin that I could use?

They are using all CSS. Pretty simple really.. I would code a full js fiddle example for you but I don't have the time, so instead I will list out the different elements you need and how they interact.
First the large image is just a div with a background image with set
dimensions.
The circular images themselves are generated from one large image containing all of the circles in one spot, this is called a sprite. The circles are just div's with background images and background positioning to position the correct circle inside the box from the sprite image.
The text boxes themselves are also div's with a standard H2 and P tags for the text.
Everything is absolute positioned in order to achieve the proper layout.
The small circles are div's with :hover states that are absolute positioned over their respective targeted areas.
The animation on :hover is achieved by the use of css3 transition and css3 transforms.
This should get you started.
Comment if you have questions.
Had some time to have some fun: http://khill.mhostiuckproductions.com/siteLSSBoilerPlate/fun-experiment-mh/

Try looking at two main aspects:
Open up your inspector tool of choice and look at what happens to body.login .feature
...more specifically, look at what happens to its transform: scale and opacity values upon :hover.
Hint: the transition is mainly on them.
Still in your inspector, change the scale to (1) and the opacity to 1. How it smoothly gets from one state to the other is dictated by the transition property.
This isn't meant to tell you exactly how to achieve it, but to get you on your way :)

It's not that hard actually. The Wunderlist team has even made it easier. They have a large sprite image with the zoomed images cropped and ready with rounded corners, borders and shadows. You can see it here: https://wunderlist2.s3.amazonaws.com/179510ff7c929bfcc6e9819f3c2539baca5d3325/images/welcome-screen.png
What you do is on mouseover you show a half transparent black background (can be position: fixed with full width and height). Then you create a element with the sprite as the background image (even better, have a class ready in your css and append it to your newly created element). Set position to the position of the hovered element.
When added to the dom animate the transform scale of the element (starting with something like scale(.24) as they do).

Well since you tried reverse engineering. I'll try and guide you along that path.
There is only one div with id overlay which is changes it's place & content, on hover of any div with class feature. Work your way further from their app js, it's not minified.
The content of the popup in this case is an image moved to different positions.

Shrink dimensions of gif as part of animation

Trying to find out if it's possible to 'shrink' an animated gif. Not in file size but in regard to the dimensions of the image.
If not, is there any way to catch the animation with jquery/javascript so I can shrink the size my moving the image out of view with css?
Or alternately after there any libraries out there for simple image manipulation type stuff for HTML5 Canvas?
EDIT:
The first mock up of the image is at http://swmohappening.info/. It's essentially a website that I'm doing to help out a local youth group retreat.
I'm wanting to shrink the portion of the letters that run-on so it's a more manageable banner to leave on the page. I do need to maintain the dimensions of the center/main section of the image.

Take a look at the animate function in jQuery - you can change the size of an image and specify the time that takes too.

As what I've read makes it seem as though the jquery animate will simply change the dimensions of an image (which isn't what is needed at the moment). I think I'll most likely end up using animate to move the image out of view to 'shrink' it that way...

Change z-index of div with fade effect on mouse over

I have 4 images stacked on top of each other, see below:
I'm trying to achieve two things:
When the mouse is over an image that is in the background, that
image should come to the foreground with a fading effect. There is
also different text below each image, that text should come to the
foreground. (no fading needed there)
The result should be like this:
Every 10-15 seconds (without user input), the next image on the right should fade in
automatically.
Technically, I thought about putting each image and text into a separate div, and playing with the z-order. The fading effect could maybe be achieved using jquery, but I've not used that before, unfortunately.
Any example code, specific help or pointers is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Although it's impossible to control the fade of an element through his z-index
we can always trick what our eyes see.
DEMO GALLERY
To achieve that we can do:
Insert into our gallery a DIV element that will grab the src attribute of the current image and set it as his background image
hide the current image, position the DIV on this image .position()
fade our DIV in/out
reset image visibility
Let me know if you have some issues, I can comment my code to make clearer the steps I used.
Happy coding

Take a look at this plugin. Just explore it, this has got 100s of different effects which you might like to use in your case.
http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/browser.html

Creating mosaic/tiled image effect with jquery

Is there a way to create the effect shown here on msi.com main image? Though done in flash, I'd prefer doing it with jquery. I've also tried with 'mosaic generators', but haven't been able to replicate the effect well, but use of a generator with js would be acceptable too.
[edit] I failed to mention, I'm only interested in emulated the tiled/mosaic aspect of the effect, not animation. I'd like a large image (e.g. 400px by 300px) separated by whitespace (or color customizable borders) into 9 equally sized blocks or tiles each.
While I would like to apply a individual hover effect to each image, giving each the effect they are separate entities, I don't necessarily need any further animation.
Rounded corners aren't important or wanted.
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It would be pretty interesting to do it with jquery. You'd have a table of images, each with a hover event that toggled an animation when mousing on and off. The logic isn't too hard; getting the images and the animation to look nice would be a little harder, but not undoable. It depends on how closely you want to replicate the effect. :D
edit: you just want a mosaic of images? you can just use a table to position all of the images, and use js for the events. What else do you want or need js for? :D

Here's an idea. Load a large image into a DIV. Decide on the size of your windows and create a PNG with transparency where you'd like the windows to be. (Opaque at the borders with thickness to control how wide you'd like the whitespace.) To create the effect, use three layers. The image at the bottom layer (which you can swap out as needed). The middle and top layer will be repeated along the x and y axises and controlled individually by jQuery. The middle layer will have the PNG with transparency and on top of that, the top layer with just a solid color (matching your page's background to "seem" invisible?). To create any "pretty" effects, you can adjust the opacity or animate the top layer of the separate boxes to show/hide the image on the bottom layer which will be visible through the middle layer's transparent area in the PNG.
Hope my explanation was clear. With some smart coding, this can be packaged and reused anywhere you'd like.