Garage Door Style Menu

Originally published on July 21, 2008 as only a jQuery technique. Now updated to include CSS3 and a combo technique which is mo’ betta.

A garage door style menu is where an image (the “door”) slides up to reveal something …

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Parent Selectors in CSS

Let’s be clear here, just in case someone is finding this from a search engine: there are no parent selectors in CSS, not even in CSS3. It is an interesting topic to talk about though, and some fresh talk …

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Load jQuery Only If Not Present

Say you were going to do an include on a whole bunch of pages, and inside of that include you wanted to do some jQuery specific stuff. That page may or may not already have jQuery loaded. If it already …

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Fluid Width Equal Height Columns

Equal height columns have been a need of web designers forever. If all the columns share the same background, equal height is irrelevant because you can set that background on a parent element. But if one or more columns need …

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#92: Code Walkthrough of Drawing Table

The Drawing Table is in essence a mini one-page jQuery application. It has one primary function, creating a colored design by changing the colors of cells in an HTML table. However it has many features to make this as easy …

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New Poll: Is Your Degree Related To Your Job?

The full question is:

If you have a degree from college and have a job, is that degree related to your current job?

It’s pretty common to hear about folks who have made their way into the web worker world …

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