Creating Reusable and Scalable Calendar Icon in HTML5 and CSS3

Introduction

This article explains how to create a calendar icon for your blog or website, and yes, it is scalable, so you can resize it to any ratio and it will not be blurred just by changing a font-size.

You’re free to change the color/size of the text or an icon or anything as you prefer. I’m going to show you how.

Figure 1: Template Div

The following is the template that I will be modifying to get the desired output. It contains the main wrapper Div and three elements inside for Day, Month and Date respectively. I had the option to put all the three in a span but just to reduce the complexity of the CSS I put them in separate tags.

And here’s the style for this icon wrapper, you can change the size of the icon in just one go by changing the wrapper’s font-size attribute.

Figure 2: Icon Wrapper style

Here’s the complete HTML and CSS:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Reusable Calendar Icon</title>
<style type="text/css">
Body
{
font-family: "Segoe UI", Frutiger, "Frutiger Linotype", "Dejavu Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
margin: 10px;
color: #333;
background-color: #cecece;
}
div.calendarDate{
font-size:1em; /*change calendarIcon size */
display: block;
position: relative;
width: 7em;
height: 7em;
background-color: #fff;
border-radius: 0.7em;
-moz-border-radius: 0.7em;
box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #bdbdbd, 0 2px 0 #fff, 0 3px 0 #bdbdbd,
0 4px 0 #fff, 0 5px 0 #bdbdbd, 0 0 0 1px #bdbdbd;
overflow: hidden;
}
div.calendarDate *
{
display: block;
width: 100%;
font-size: 1em;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
text-align: center;
}
div.calendarDate strong
{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
padding: 0.4em 0;
color: #fff;
background-color: #19aaaa;
border-bottom: 1px dashed #ddd;
box-shadow: 0 2px 0 #19aaaa;
}
div.calendarDate em
{
position: absolute;
bottom: 0em;
color: #fff;
padding-top:.2em;
height: 1.6em;
background-color: #19aaaa;
}
div.calendarDate span
{
font-size: 2.8em;
letter-spacing: -0.05em;
padding-top: 0.65em;
color: #2f2f2f;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="calendarDate">
<em>Saturday</em>
<strong>December</strong>
<span>21</span>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Just in case you may want to fiddle around, see: http://jsfiddle.net/sunnykumar08/ZqcrA/

Thanks for reading this article, I hope you find this article useful. Feedback and comments are highly appreciated!