Polls are fun! They can help engage the readers of your site and give both you and the poll-taker valuable information. Let’s walk through building a poll from scratch. All the way from the Photoshop design to the PHP / …
…and the jQ’s have it! At the time of this writing over 1500 people have responded to our latest poll “What Javascript Library Do You Use?” making it our biggest poll yet. jQuery is the run-away victor with over 50% …
Pull quotes are wonderful. They can really draw a readers attention and they are a great opportunity for cool typographic work. On a blog though, pull quotes are particularly difficult to “pull off” (get it?!).
This is because of RSS. …
As a matter of usability and aesthetics, it is a good thing to add some kind of visual feedback on web forms to indicate the currently active (or “focused“) field. Some browsers (Safari/Opera) have decided that …
I know I’ve been talking a lot about jQuery lately, but I promise I won’t stray too far off the CSS path. I would like to find out what everyone else’s favorite Javascript libraries, hence the new poll, “What is …
jQuery has some really simple built in features for “fading in” and “fading out” different page elements. I thought we could exploit some of those functions for a really simple Spoiler Revealer.
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So in my journey to to learn jQuery, I’m trying to learn to do some things that CSS can already do but that jQuery can do “sexier”. Jonathan Snook has an article up “Content Overlay with CSS” in …
I’ve been really getting into this jQuery phenomenon lately. jQuery is tightly tied to CSS, so if you are already comfortable with CSS and are looking for ways to expand your possibilities, jQuery is the place to be. You can …
“Page Sliders” are a bit like Tabbed Boxes, only the content appears to slide by instead of be instantly replaced. This is a pretty nice effect and like tabbed boxes, it can help you get a lot of content …
Update November 2020: I think the best possible technique for this is Method 4 in this article. The <div> (or whatever wrapper element) remains semantic and accessible, while being “clickable” over the whole area. It doesn’t break text selection and …