Chris Coyier

One of the hurdles (and "ah-ha" moments) in learning CSS is this business about clearing floats. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, check out the classic All About Floats.

I specifically want to talk about the issues of "collapsing", that is, how elements that contain floated items don't take those floated items into account in calculating their height. For example a parent element that only contains floated items will have a zero height. This is … Read article

Replace instances of "yourPluginName" with your actual plugin name. The stuff about "radius" is just an example of an option (parameter to pass plugin).

(function($){
    $.yourPluginName = function(el, radius, options){
        // To avoid scope issues, use 'base' instead of 'this'
        // to reference this class from internal events and functions.
        var base = this;
        
        // Access to jQuery and DOM versions of element
        base.$el = $(el);
        base.el = el;
        
        // Add a reverse reference to the DOM object
        base.$el.data("yourPluginName", base);
        
        

It should be said, first and foremost, that you should try to keep your styling and your JavaScript away from each other. If you want to change the style of an element with JavaScript, add (or remove) a class name from the element. Then use that class name as your hook in the CSS to affect the styling.

However, there are times when you need to apply styling within JavaScript. jQuery has a function just for it:

$("#thing").css("margin-right", 0);

Forget your admin password and don't have access to the email account it's under? If you can get access to phpMyAdmin (or anything you can run mySQL commands), you can update it there.

UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( 'new_password_here' ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = "admin_username";

Just replace new_password_here with the new password and admin_username with the real admin accounts usename.… Read article

I know ya'll were just thinking to yourselves: man, I hope Chris posts some super nerdy article today with some nearly-useless technique that if I talked about in public would clinch the fact that I'm not getting laid anytime soon. Don't worry, I got your back! Check out the CSS Secret Message Generator.

Using it is (I hope) fairly straightforward. You click some letters, then those are the letters which secretly reveal themselves when the text is selected.

There … Read article

Most webservers serve XHTML content as text/html what is definitly the right way to handle XHTML documents. In case the server isn't doing that correctly, you can force it on Apache servers with .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/xhtml\+xml
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} !application/xhtml\+xml\s*;\s*q=0
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} HTTP/1\.1
RewriteRule .* - "[T=application/xhtml+xml; charset=ISO-8859-1]"

<link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (orientation:portrait)" href="portrait.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" media="all and (orientation:landscape)" href="landscape.css"> 

I'll be speaking at the upcoming jQuery Conference. It is in the San Francisco Bay Area (Mountain View, at the Microsoft Campus) on April 24 – 25, 2010. Just check out that link for all the details. It looks pretty great.… Read article

I was looking at the features page of a web service called Fluxiom. I haven't used the product (although it looks pretty nice and might be good few a couple of our clients). It's the tabs on that page that I thought were pretty neat. As you click a different tab, the three columns of text fly upward at different rates and are replaced by new columns. It looks kinda like a slot machine. I didn't investigate too deeply how … Read article