In this category you will find experiments, plugins and articles related to web development and programming. Here we present some new ideas and inspiration for solving problems and tackling challenges around web development.
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Check if cookies are enabled $(document).ready(function() { var dt = new Date(); dt.setSeconds(dt.getSeconds() + 60); document.cookie = "cookietest=1; expires=" + dt ...
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Here’s an effect based on the one used in fml to stop and pause an event. The idea is that when we click on the play/pause button or p ...
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How to refresh the src of an image with jQuery? $(imageobj).attr('src', $(imageobj) .attr('src') + '?' + Math.random() ); How to see if an image is loaded or not wit ...
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Here’s a way to scroll to the top or bottom of your website with a simple click. I have used the jQuery special scroll events from James Padolsey, and some few ...
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Here’s a jQuery plugin that transforms a number into a human readable format. This plugin formats a number like 23454321234 into 23.454.321.234 . You can use d ...
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Here’s an easy way to translate your web site using PHP. The idea is to have several files for each language you want to provide. Each one of these files have ...
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I was wondering how to get images from a site the same way like Digg or Facebook do, where it is only necessary to provide a link, and images get automatically uploa ...
By Mary Lou on
Our site was getting kind of slow, so I decided to read some articles about how to speed up a WordPress blog. While many give really great tips on what to do, I just ...
By cody on
Ever missed the bookmarking option of a good editor in a web site? This jQuery plugin does exactly that: if you want your website visitors to be able to toggle bookm ...
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My next Twitter API experiment: Get the theme’s colors from any Twitter account! With this PHP and jQuery code you can call the Twitter API and request the RGB ...
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Today I was playing around with the Twitter API and created this little “widget” using jQuery and PHP. I know, there are already plenty of them, but I wa ...
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The double-click functionality in the New York Times was somehow fascinating but also highly discussed because it boldly used the browser functionality to get the de ...
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Every web developer knows how difficult it can be to decide how to provide feedback to the user in form of an error or a success message. When submitting forms or ex ...
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Here is a new plugin for creating nice sliding captions for images. When hovering over the image, the caption appears and the image gets a semi-transparent color ove ...
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jPaginate is a jQuery pagination plugin that comes with a twist: animated page numbers. The user can slide through the available page numbers by clicking or just hov ...
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jMaxInput allows you to limit the input size of a textarea like it is done in Twitter. The number of characters left to type are shown while typing. The user can wri ...
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Here’s an updated version of the Image Cropper. The upload button was replaced by an overlay on the image. There are also some extra functionalities : ...
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jStickyNote is a jQuery plugin that allows to create sticky notes on your web site. It is configurable and this is how you use it: ...
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jBar is a jQuery Plugin that allows you to integrate notifications in your web site. The behavior is very similar to Twitter’s and Stackoverflow’s notifi ...
By Mary Lou on
Working a lot with images I was coming across some curiosities concerning how web sites deal with pictures and especially the uploading of pictures. In social networ ...
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Please check the updated version here! Some time ago I posted the Dynamic jQuery Image Gallery with Uploader which uses the class.upload, uploadify and ad-gallery sc ...
By Mary Lou on
Here is a list of 33 JavaScript table sorting scripts and their sources. Enjoy it! 1. jQuery tablesorter http://tablesorter.com/docs/ ...
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The API of Google has a lot of useful usage examples. This showcase demonstrates how we can use the Google AJAX Language API to build a live translator that allows u ...
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Here is a collection of free CAPTCHA scripts and services than you can easily integrate into your website using PHP or JavaScript: 1. PHP CAPTCHA Library for reCAPTC ...