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Options for Styling Text Links and Hover States

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Because the web is built on links, how we style our links (i.e, anchors, or <a> tags) should always be an important part of a site’s overall design, branding, and feel.

I’ve seen so many variations on the link style/color and hover style/color combination, that I thought it would be interesting t...

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Every Time You Make a Good Business Decision, a Puppy Gets Cloned

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Puppy Gets Cloned A List Apart’s Issue #344 went live yesterday with a focus on the recent vendor prefix drama. I didn’t get a chance yet to read the entire Meyer/Tantek interview, but I did read Lea Verou’s piece.

First of all, congratulations to Lea for getting published in ALA. She’s certainly one of the most t...

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Callback Functions in JavaScript

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Callback Functions in JavaScript If you’re fairly inexperienced with JavaScript but you’ve used jQuery, then its likely you’ve used callback functions. But maybe you don’t fully understand how they work or how they’re implemented.

In this post, which is based on what I’ve learned about callback functions, I’ll try to enlighten you on ...

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Book Giveaway: The Book of Ruby

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on February 9th, 2012 |

Book Giveaway: The Book of Ruby I was unsure of what to write about this week and then I remembered that I had been meaning to post something to promote and give away a hard copy of a book that No Starch Press was kind enough to give me for free.

Below I’ll give you some simple instructions on how you can win my brand new copy of The...

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A Call For Better Fragment Identifiers

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on February 2nd, 2012 |

A Call For Better Fragment Identifiers Where would the web be without links? Links are what hold together what we know as the World Wide Web. Without links, the World Wide Web would be more appropriately called the World Wide Set Of Unrelated Pages, or, incidentally, WWSOUP.

While it’s great how simple and effective the process is of “...

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Learn to Program

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on January 30th, 2012 |

In Divya Manian’s controversial post on Smashing Magazine discussing HTML semantics, something that she said got somewhat overlooked in all the debates that ensued.

At the end of the article, she pointed out that rather than wasting time debating HTML tag use, developers should focus on learning how to...

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New CSS3 Properties to Handle Text and Word Wrapping

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on January 27th, 2012 |

New CSS3 Properties to Handle Text and Word Wrapping About a year and a half ago, I wrote about CSS3′s word-wrap property. The angle of the article was the fact that it was a feature that was new in CSS3 that didn’t exist in CSS2.1 and it worked in just about every browser, including old IE.

Well, now that’s all changed, which I discovered while r...

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The All-New CSS3 Click Chart

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on January 17th, 2012 |

Over the past month or so I’ve been slowly working on a redesign and revamp of my CSS3 Click Chart. A whole slew of things have changed. Here’s a summary.

  • Two sections to choose from: Common Stuff and Cutting-Edge
  • Totally new layout and colors
  • A separate domain name
  • A GitHub repo
  • Ajax calls that could use...

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Textarea Auto Resize

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on January 9th, 2012 |

Textarea Auto Resize On a current project, I was trying to find a way to auto-resize a textarea according to some content that would be loaded in dynamically via Ajax. I didn’t know the height of the content and the textarea element doesn’t resize naturally like other HTML elements, so I needed to update the height of the e...

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Things We Wish Clients Would Say

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on January 6th, 2012 |

Yesterday I tweeted the following:

On current client project, client says CSS only needs to work in Chrome. Let me know how jealous you are.

The responsesweren’ttoosurprising.

Below I brainstormed a list of some other things we wish clients would say. I guess this is the polar opposite of what you find he...

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Dealing with Empty Elements in CSS3 Animations

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Dealing with Empty Elements in CSS3 Animations Earlier this month, Chris Coyier posted an article discussing a way to deal with the empty elements that are often needed when doing CSS3 animation.

Chris’s solution is interesting. He basically suggests (and I’m paraphrasing here) that we can gi...

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Some JavaScript Resources Worth Checking Out

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With any programming language, the learning journey is seemingly an endless one. Because I don’t have a computer sciences background, I feel I’ll always struggle to keep my JavaScript abilities up to par.

Over the last year or so I’ve stumbled across a number of u...

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Health Tips for Web Developers

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(IMPORTANT NOTE: This is not typical of the type of post I write on here. But I think it’s an important subject that all web developers — and probably all desk job workers — should consider. There are a ton of links in this article, so it might be a bit overwhelming. But the links a...

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How Do Browsers Render the Different CSS Border Style Values?

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You’ve probably used CSS’s border property often, and in almost all cases you’ve probably set the border-style value to “solid”, which looks exactly the same in every browser.

We all know there are other values for border-style, but it’s likely you’ve never used any of ...

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Mixing CSS3 Prefixed Properties with Keyframe Animations

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Mixing CSS3 Prefixed Properties with Keyframe Animations Currently, there are still a number of CSS3 properties that will not work unless you include all the various vendor prefixes. And that number is growing now that IE10 has added support for a bunch of new properties and features.

Let’s look at a simple example of some C...

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