I threw together this HTML character code utility today while searching for arrow characters. I was surprised to see that they go up almost to 60,000 and includes the alphabet for just about every language, including braille. Check it out at http://verysimple.com/content/html/ I was thinking that it would be cool to have it searchable but [...]
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FlipCard 2.0 With Source Released
Last year I posted a FlipCard component for Flex that allows you to place UI Controls on the front and back of a 3D “card” that can be flipped by the user. It gives the user the visual effect that there are settings or options on the backside of the page, form, etc.
Forcing Firefox to obey autocomplete="off" for password fields
Autocomplete is a nice feature which fills in common form fields automatically for the user. However, in some cases you don’t want this to happen. Some examples could be an account management page where you don’t want the admin password to be auto-filled in when you are creating and managing accounts. Another example is any [...]
Dynamically Adding Links (a href) using javascript and DOM
I’m adding this post strictly for the reason that every time I need to do this I spend about 20 minutes searching for an example, only to find various broken posts and incorrect answers. This way works for me every time. If you have an alternate way that works better or is less code, please [...]
Dynamically updating CSS based on browser width
I was working on an interface with a liquid layout recently that looked pretty good when the browser was at a relatively average width (600 to 1000 pixels). However, when I checked it on a really wide screen, the layout started to get a little wierd. Everything stretched as it should, but with a large [...]
