To safely transport an arbitrary string within a URL, you need to percent-encode characters that have a particular meaning...

As the web is being used for more and more tasks, expectations rise. Not only should web pages offer rich...

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developer.chrome.com

In the DevTools settings, there's a "Shortcuts" section. Found these keyboard shortcuts there: General ESC Toggle drawer

This is how you regain disk space from OpenStack instances if you are using kvm and qcow. If your instance...

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blog.getbootstrap.com

Moved from Less to Sass. Bootstrap now compiles faster than ever thanks to Libsass, and we join...

hacks.mozilla.org

Unfortunately, Web APIs haven’t provided the functionality to copy text to the clipboard through JavaScript, which is why visiting...

You can include files from app/assets or from the public folder with javascript_include_tag. The subtle difference that tells...

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bootswatch.com

Free Bootstrap theme resembling Material Design. Bootswatch offers Sass and Less files, so the theme can easily be integrated into...

Jasmine comes with two matchers that test for equality. The first is toBe: expect(first).toBe(second) toBe passes when...

jasmine.github.io

The easiest way to freeze or travel through time in a Jasmine spec is to use the built-in jasmine.clock...

If you are writing any amount of Javascript, you are probably using closures to hide local state, e.g. to have...

tl;dr: Use event.currentTarget unless you are absolutely certain that you need event.target. Since it hasn't been written down...

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getmdl.io

CSS (+ some Javascript) framework, implementing Google's material design for static web pages. Can be used for plain websites without...

Disabling auto-complete in login forms is probably a bad idea, since it encourages weak passwords. If you are still...

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eager.io

SmartUnderline is an open-source JavaScript library which uses clever tricks to draw underlines in a more beautiful and readable...

css-tricks.com

Insanely detailled guide about controlling copy & paste behavior using web technology in 2015. Note that you can now trigger a...

If you're supporting IE9+, you can listen to input to see if a text field changes. Other than change...

Developing complex regular expressions quickly blows my mind. Here are some online regex editors that help you by highlighting matching...

Note: Making a reverse proxy with nginx is much more straightforward. A reverse proxy is a "man in the middle...

When you register a delegated event using on (or the deprecated delegate / live), it is somewhat hard to manually trigger...

caniuse.com

All major browsers (IE8+, FF3.5+, Safari 4+, any Chrome) support sessionStorage, a JavaScript storage object that survives page reloads and...

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nexts.github.io

Small (1.5 KB) Javascript library that lets you render tables, lists, etc. with hundreds of thousands of items.

When ending a Selenium test Capybara resets the browser state by closing the tab, clearing cookies, localStorage, etc.

You know that ActiveRecord caches associations so they are not loaded twice for the same object. You also know that...