Hey folks, let’s design something together! I think it will be interesting and fun to try and tackle a simple design pattern as a group.
The PremiseThe design pattern we are going to tackle is a list with functions…
Have you ever seen an element on a page with transparent borders? I think Facebook originally popularized it giving birth to lightbox plugins like Facebox. I don’t think Facebook sports the look anymore, but it’s still rather neat.
You …
You already know that Envato runs marketplace sites like ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, and CodeCanyon that help designers and developers get a jumpstart on projects through buying themes, graphics, and code to help out. You also already know that Envato runs tutorial …
htmlentities() is a PHP function which converts special characters (like <) into their escaped/encoded values (like <). This allows you to show to display the string without the browser reading it as HTML.
JavaScript doesn’t have a native version of …
…You can designate certain attributes (i.e., fill, stroke, opacity) as variables right from the Appearance panel in Illustrator. When saved as SVG, developers can easily change the variable definition to “reskin” or modify the art
Placeholder text in inputs has (in the browsers implementing it so far) a light gray color. To style it, you’ll need vendor prefix CSS properties.
::-webkit-input-placeholder {
color: red;
}
:-moz-placeholder { /* Firefox 18- */
color: red;
}
::-moz-placeholder Stephen Coles of Typographica has a new Twitter account:
Rapid, human, independent type research. Send an image, get the font name and link. Alternatives too.
WhatTheFont! is cool, but you can’t beat professional human identification. Like the story of John …
Fonts on the web are essentially vector-based graphics. That’s why you can display them at 12px or 120px and they remain crisp and relatively sharp-edged. Vector means that their shape is determined by points and mathematics to describe the shape, …
The box-sizing property can make building CSS layouts easier and a lot more intuitive. It’s such a boon for developers that here at CSS-Tricks we observe International Box-Sizing Awareness Day in February.
But, how is it so helpful and beloved …
<?php
$zip = zip_open("zip.zip");
if (is_resource($zip)) {
while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)) {
$fp = fopen("zip/".zip_entry_name($zip_entry), "w");
if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry, "r")) {
$buf = zip_entry_read($zip_entry, zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry));
fwrite($fp,"$buf");
zip_entry_close($zip_entry);
fclose($fp);
}
}
zip_close($zip);
}
?>var myString = "abcdefg";
var newString = myString.substr(0, myString.length-4);
// newString is now "abc"var myString = "abcdefg";
var newString = myString.substr(2);
// newString is now "cdefg"The substr function can …