Articles by

Chris Coyier

Founder, writer, designer, spam-deleter, email personality

Dynamic Page / Replacing Content

This article is an update to this old article, which had an ugly demo and a variety of techniques in it no longer probably considered good practices. This new demo is much cleaner, up to date, and fuller featured.…
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Cufon 101

1. Include the JavaScript for Cufón and the Cufón font

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/cufon-yui.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/TitilliumMaps.font.js"></script>

2. HTML

Normal tags

<h1>Business Solutions</h1>
<h2>Business Insurance</h2>

3. Tell Cufón to replace the fonts for the specified CSS selectors

<script type="text/javascript">
    Cufon.replace('h1, h2', 

Organic Tabs

Have you ever seen a tabbed content area in a sidebar that was a little “jerky”? The jerkiness can be caused by a bunch of things, like the content in the tabbed areas are of different heights, or maybe the …

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Table Row and Column Highlighting

In mid-2009 I did a screencast about tables which featured how to do row and column highlighting with jQuery. The method in the video isn’t nearly as efficient as it could be, so this is an update to that. Shout…
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Cross Domain GET Forwarding

When you do an AJAX request on a website, the URL you request from needs to reside on the same domain as where the request was made from. This is a security restriction imposed by the browser. There is a …

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May is Maintenance Month

There are over 600 blog posts on this site over the course of nearly 3 years. Some of them are… better than others. I think it is the responsible thing to do is try to keep that content current and …

Fallback for CDN hosted jQuery

Several big companies offer copies of jQuery hosted on their CDN’s (Content Delivery Network). Most notoriously Google, but also Microsoft and jQuery themselves. A lot of people swear by this since it saves bandwidth, downloads faster, and perhaps even stays …

iPad Detection

Of course, the iPad is a pretty large screen and a fully capable browser, so most websites don’t need to have iPad specific versions of them. But if you need to, you can detect for it with .htaccess

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 

Facebook “Like” Button for WordPress

Some very easy copy-and-paste code here to add to the template for blog posts to allow for Facebook “liking” of the article. Probably best in the single.php template underneath where it outputs the content of the post.

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo 
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