The following script allows you to group all elements on a web page by a particular CSS value. So for example, if you specify ‘fontFamily’, you’ll get a list of font families used on the website, and a list of all elements using each one. You can specify other attributes if you would like to […]
So you have a CSS theme written using LESS. A simple example would be like the example below… you’ve extracted your variables into a file named “variables.less” and you use an import to make those variables available to your main stylesheet. If you decide to change something important, you can do that in the variables […]
This is a quick guide to the modern method of getting a 100% high chunk of content without a lot of fuss. This technique also works for creating a 100% chunk of content, with more content being appended after the fold. We’ll use this dummy HTML for the purposes of the example – it works […]
RESTClient is a useful Firefox extension for sending HTTP REST messages to a service. As well as a useful and simple interface for sending requests, it also lets you store requests to re-use again later. If you are writing REST services, it is a useful tool to have lying around. The only problem I have […]
Having recently starting adding CSS Paged Media to web pages, and generating dynamic headers from page content – I had a need to push the results of this to PDF. The use-case was two-fold, one was to generate a whole batch of PDFs to “print later” and the other was for sending the content for […]
My early spring-clean has been going on for a while. I have been gradually deleting things to make the site go faster. As usual, if you don’t keep a close watch on things they start to bloat. My site had reached a whopping 400kb for an empty-cache first-load and spanned far too many network requests […]
I am officially ditching the HTML5 shim for old browsers and here is why. I have dropped all stats from my website, so I won’t be able to tell when my “Internet Explorer 6” user base reaches zero. However, last time I checked it was just 0.05500982318% of you. This is less than 100 people […]
In my previous introduction to the CSS Paged Media Module, I briefly talked about adding page numbers to your footers. I’m going to nudge that concept on a little further by showing you how to grab content from the HTML page and inject it into the header. This is a top trick for the following […]
One of the first questions I answered on a JavaScript forum when I first start programming was about printing web pages. The stock answer for a long time has been “you can’t do” whatever it was you wanted to do. Whether it was having some control over page breaks or customising headers and footers or […]
Creating a cool background effect on your web page is really easy and thanks to the innovation of the CSS working group, you can now create really smooth animations using JavaScript to handle events and CSS to do the heavy lifting. A few years back, you would need to get highly mathmatical to get a […]