Render Single-Line Markdown Text with Redcarpet

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...

Although regular expression syntax is 99% interchangeable between languages, keep this in mind:

• By default, the dot character (".") does not match a line feed (newline, line break, "\n") in any language.
• Some languages allow you to mo...

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...

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...

You will find this useful when creating responsive designs that work well on small screens.

The attached Javascript gives a container different CSS classes (single_line or multiple_lines) depending on whether its children render on one line o...

If you want to fill in textareas with multiple lines of text (containing line breaks / new lines) you can use Cucumber's docstrings:

And I fill in "Comment" with:

"""
This i...

If you are using Angular and want something like Rails' simple_format which HTML-formats a plain-text input into paragraphs and line breaks, this directive is for you.

Any ...

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...