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I admittedly don’t think about this idea very often… how efficient is the CSS that we write, in terms of how quickly the browser can render it?
This is definitely something that browser vendors care about (the faster pages load …
Just use the autocomplete attribute:
<input name="q" type="text" autocomplete="off"/>This would be useful when a text input is one-off and unique. Like a CAPTCHA input, one-time use codes, or for when you have built your own auto-suggest/auto-complete feature and need …
Google announced their new Font API yesterday, including a font directory and preview tool. They teamed up with TypeKit, to build and open source the WebFont Loader.…
<?php
$url = explode('/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$dir = $url[1] ? $url[1] : 'home';
?>
<body id="<?php echo $dir ?>">This would turn http://domain.tld/blog/home into “blog” (the second level of the URL structure). If at the root, it will return “home”.
Here is …
RGBa is a way to declare a color in CSS that includes alpha transparency support. …
You can flip images with CSS! Possible scenario: having only one graphic for an “arrow”, but flipping it around to point in different directions.
.flip-horizontally {
transform: scaleX(-1);
}See how one arrow is used to point both directions here:…
Tonight is the next-to-last episode ever of LOST. I’ve been a fan since the start, watching the released seasons several times with different friends over the years. Even powering through the Season 3 slump =). Just for fun, Richard and …
It is a long-standing web design standard that the logo in the header area links to the homepage of the site. Another standard is that when displaying the navigation of a site, to highlight in some way the “current” page, …
The bloginfo() function in WordPress gives you access to lots of useful information about your site. See the complete list. To access all these values from inside Page/Post content itself, we can make a shortcode to return the values. …
One of the articles I updated during “May is Maintenance Month” was an article about dynamic content. The idea was a simple website where clicking a link would fade out the existing content and fade in new content that it …
I had the occasion come up recently where I needed to animate something in a circle. It never occurred to me until then that there wasn’t an obvious solution to this already with jQuery. So I figured out a way, …
