Category Archives: JavaScript
.fadeIn() and jQuery Goodness
While carousing the jQuery IRC channel on free node the other day, I noticed that one user in the chat was looking for a way to streamline multiple calls to jQuery’s traversal methods, namely, prev(), next(), and parent(). He asked, instead of writing parent().parent().parent().parent().parent(), can’t we just write .parent(5)? I was really excited to hear this for a few reasons. Continue reading
JS Bin Links Now in All Code Snippets
I’ve edited the core of the Syntax Highlighter plugin used on this site to highlight code snippets to include JS Bin links on its toolbar (where applicable). If the code snippet can be represented and played with in JS Bin, … Continue reading
Strip Specific HTML Tags From String
In fiddling around with some code highlighters to use for this blog, I found myself needing a way to strip tags from a JavaScript string of HTML, while leaving others. I needed it so I could convert highlighted code to … Continue reading
New Design
I just “finished” the new design for my blog. There are still some optimizations to make, bugs to squash, and some cross browser issues to tackle, but this is it, in essence. If you’re viewing this page is Firefox 3.5, … Continue reading