If you select and image with jQuery and then use .width(), you’ll get the images current width, even if it’s been scaled (e.g. max-width: 100%;). You can access the images native width (even if it doesn’t have any attributes …
var k7w2z9;(function(d, t) { var s = d.createElement(t), options = { 'userName':'chriscoyier', 'formHash':'k7w2z9', 'autoResize':true, 'height':'400', 'async':true, 'header':'hide', 'ssl':true}; s.src = ('https:' == d.location.protocol ? 'https://' : 'http://') + 'wufoo.com/scripts/embed/form.js'; s.onload = s.onreadystatechange = function() …
In which I show and explain the very basics of what “responsive web design” has come to mean. Then I go all over the place and show examples, related resources, relevant people, tips and tricks, and more.…
A bunch of crazy awesome affects you can apply via CSS through the filter property: blur, drop-shadow, gamma, grayscale, hue-rotate, invert, opacity, saturate, sepia, and sharpen. Adobe has been doing some great stuff with CSS lately. Their last amazing demo…
It’s a new language the runs in the browser and servers. A lot of it is over my head, but I always celebrate new thinking especially when it has a bunch of smart people behind it. The obvious point is …
Let’s say you’ve designed a web page and it makes use of a full page background image. You really like the way the site looks with this background image. It looks amazing. But the image is 350k. You’ve …
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. The pipe character “|” is by far the most popular page title separator with 47% of the vote and being up against 15 other choices. …
I’m just back from London where I spoke at the Future of Web Apps. My talk was titled, rather generically, Writing Better HTML & CSS. Slides pale in comparison to real talks, but I still like posting them in case …
Rather than having to call / include a file you need on every single page, you can have them automatically prepended (top of file) or appended (bottom of file) automatically through your .htaccess file.
php_value auto_prepend_file "/real/path/to/file/functions.php"
php_value auto_append_file "/real/path/to/file/footer.php"