Note: You won't need this for single lines of text. In this case it is better to just use the text-overflow property: Use CSS "text-overflow" to truncate long texts

You can use -webkit-line-clamp in your CSS/SA...

You know that you can use jQuery's text() to get an element's contents without any tags.
If you want to remove only some tags, but keep others, use contents() and unwrap(). Here is how.

Consider the following example element.

$containe...

So you have a heading that is just barely wider than the container it should fit into, and it wraps a single word to a new line and it's not really pretty?
Cry no more, for you can use text-wrap: balance today to fix that. At least in some b...

Summary

• We want to move away from jQuery in future projects
• Motivations are performance, bundle size and general trends for the web platform.
• The native DOM API is much nicer than it used to be, and we can polyfill the missing pieces
• Un...

Rails supports time zones, but there are several pitfalls. Most importantly because Time.now and Time.current are completely different things and code from gems might use one or the other.

Especially configuring an application that cares only...

Browsers make this very hard. Even when you explicitely set the selection inside the textarea (e. g. using jquery-fieldselection) the browser will not scroll the textarea to this selection.

Wh...

You can use this code:

function scrollToLine($textarea, lineNumber) {
  var lineHeight = parseInt($textarea.css('line-height'));
  $textarea.scrollTop(lineNumber * lineHeight);      
}

Some caveats about this code:

1. Your t...

When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the vendor/gems directory of your Rails project. You can then make any changes you require and Rails will use the vendored version of the gem after a serve...