css-tricks.com

Crazy hack. Might be useful one day. The code required has since been extracted into a library.

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cssdeck.com

Clever hack to allow user interaction without Javascript (by using radio buttons and selecting on :checked).

Give the table a style table-layout: fixed Give the cells in the first row a width The same width...

If you have a FooController and also have a layout app/views/layouts/foo.html, Rails will use this without being told so.

Setting the colorbox opacity by hash parameter when initializing doesn't work the way like the documentation tells you.

An annoying part of using font icons is that the icons usually need to live in the DOM. This is...

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amsul.ca

The mobile-friendly, responsive, and lightweight jQuery date & time input picker. Does not depend on jQuery UI, but currently does...

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github.com

FastClick is a simple, easy-to-use library for eliminating the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.13, PDFKit 0.5.4, Phusion Passenger Apache 2 I ran into this, when I...

fontawesome.io

Font Awesome 4 has renamed all icons. What the fuck. Check the attached link for an icon list for the...

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magnus-g.github.io

Awesome Sass plugin to experiment with Subtle Patterns based textures. It automatically removes the base color from the pattern, leaving...

creativebloq.com

I recently created a survey asking fellow designers about the problems they faced when creating fully responsive sites. This article...

divshot.com

Motion is quickly becoming one of the most important emerging techniques in building a quality user experience on the web...

So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and...

The default configuration of Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. If you accidentally forget to send the CSRF token for...

Working with lists in Javascript is painful because the native Array class is so poorly designed. One way to reduce...

Using text-transform: uppercase - especially on form labels - can cause you serious headaches in Selenium tests. Sometimes the web driver...

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compass-style.org

Since we are migrating from our homegrown mixins.sass and helpers.sass to Compass, here is a list of all the mixins...

tjvantoll.com

Did you know you can color your line-throughs or underline, or make them wavy like spell-checkers do?

speakerdeck.com

Awesome slide deck about taking liberties with design requirements in order to keep the CSS simple.

github.com

The asset pipeline (which is actually backed by sprockets) has a nice feature where templates ending in .jst are compiled...

makandra dev

For all late night coders: The program "redshift" changes your monitors' white balance according to your position on the planet...

fortawesome.github.io

A list of FontAwesome icons in the form of copyable Unicode characters or HTML entities. You might prefer to use...

In order to keep the controllers directory tidy, we recently started to namespace controllers. With the :controller option you can...