For this week’s tutorial, we are taking a look at our ever-so-interesting inbox. It all started with a letter from one of our readers a couple of weeks ago: My boss is always coming into my office asking me to install things on our client’s sites. One of the items that’s been coming up more and [...]
December 11, 2009
If the text is too wide to fit into a container, a nice solution can be to have ellipsis to show there’s more information available. While not currently part of the official HTML specifications, it is possible to have ellipsis defined in CSS and it works for Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome and Opera. It doesn’t [...]
December 11, 2009
This replicates the functionality of the standard embeddable Google Search fields. They have an image in the background and when the input is clicked into, the image disappears. via Input with Disappearing Background Image.
November 30, 2009
Really simple concept today folk! A sidebar that “follows” as you scroll down a page. There are a number of ways to go about it. We’ll cover two: CSS and JavaScript (jQuery) with a bonus CSS trick. via Scroll/Follow Sidebar, Multiple Techniques | CSS-Tricks.
November 10, 2009
You don’t want to go putting HTML tags directly into post titles. It might show up OK on your own site, but it can be problematic. For example, your titles through RSS will show the tags as next, not render them. I was wishing for a plugin to handle this better, but until then, here [...]
March 3, 2010
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