One of the cool features WebSphere Commerce added last year were banner ads that hover above the product image in category lists or search results. Here is an example banner ad for the IsNew attribute and how it currently shows on the product image:

If you inspect the banner ad element you will see this in the inspector for the HTML div:

Notice it has two classes associated with it. It applies the default value RibbonAdDefault and also automatically puts in another class with the same name as the attribute, in this case, IsNew. Since I just created this attribute it, is using the RibbonAdDefault class because I have not created an IsNew class.

The RibbonAdDefault css is the following:

.product_image .RibbonAdDefault {
 position:absolute;
 bottom:40px;
 left:0;
 width:110px;
 height:20px;
 background-color:#2C2C2C;
 background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, color-stop(0.76, rgba(68, 68, 68, 1)), color-stop(1, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)));
 background: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(68, 68, 68, 1) 76%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 100%);
 -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(gradientType=1, startColorStr='#FF444444', endColorStr='#00FFFFFF')";
 zoom: 1;
 font-size: 14px;
 line-height:20px;
 font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 color:#FFF;
 padding-left:10px;
 border-radius:3px;
 text-align:left;
 vertical-align:baseline;
 overflow:visible;
 white-space: nowrap;
}

What we are going to do is override this with our new CSS specifying the IsNew attribute. We are also going to change the position and have it be an image with no text. Here is the new CSS for the IsNew attribute:

.product_image .IsNew {
 position:absolute;
 display: block;
 top:10px;
 left:0;
 width:60px;
 height:60px;
 background-color:#2C2C2C;
 background: url("../images/new-icon.png") no-repeat;
 zoom: 1;
 font-size: 0px;
 line-height:20px;
 font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 color:#FFF;
 padding-left:10px;
 border-radius:3px;
 text-align:left;
 vertical-align:baseline;
 overflow:visible;
 white-space: nowrap;
}

This gives us an end results with the follow image:

Notice since I made the font-size zero pixels. This is essentially making it so there is no text and it ends up just being the image.

Watch the video below to see me implement this: