The Pixelize jQuery Plugin
I am unabashedly and unreasonably fond of pixel art. To that end, I’ve created a simple jQuery plugin that can turn a JavaScript array into CSS pixel art. […]
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Bouncing Balls in the HTML5 Canvas
Here’s a fun demo I put together using the HTML5 canvas, aided by the excellent sketch.js framework. I’m creating a whole bunch of semi-transparent balls and bouncing them around on the screen. The demo definitely requires a modern browser (Chrome/Firefox/IE9+). […]
Simple Table Column Highlighting
One design technique I’ve always enjoyed is highlighting the row and column of any cell that the user hovers over. Highlighting table rows is easy, but columns are hard. Or so I thought. Using table cols vastly simplifies the process. […]
How To Use CSS3 Features (like border-radius and box-shadow) in Internet Explorer with
A JavaScript Currency Conversion Script
It turns out that converting random numbers into formatted currency (with dollar signs, commas, and periods) is more difficult in JavaScript than I would have expected. There’s no built-in function for it, and it’s something I run into a lot. The function I wrote has worked well for me on a couple of projects now, so I thought I’d share it with you-all. […]
Intelligent Select Box Filtering
These select boxes all contain the exact same security question. However, each question can only be selected once — we’re using jQuery to remove selected questions from all the other dropdowns. […]
Cross-Browser Rounded Buttons with CSS3 and jQuery
I was tasked with replacing several dozen Photoshop-generated rounded buttons on a large site with a flexible HTML/CSS/JS equivalent. I wanted it to be simple and leave the code as clean as possible. It also needed to work in all modern browsers. This is my solution. […]
How To Emulate a Foreach Loop in JavaScript
I have trouble with JavaScript array and array-manipulation. JavaScript lacks a specific foreach contstruct, which trips me up. Here’s how to fake it. […]
Improve Usability and CTR: Make an Entire List Item Clickable
Larger clickable areas make for greater usability and a higher click-through rate. Here’s how to expand a clickable area to an entire list item using jQuery. […]
The Best CSS Newbie Articles of 2009
Happy 2010, readers of CSS Newbie! This year, more than a quarter million people stopped by, visiting more than half a million pages. Here are the Top 10 CSS Newbie Articles of 2009. […]