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Ellipsis or “truncate with dots” via JavaScript

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Internet Explorer comes with a nice CSS feature for truncating text by appending three little dots: text-overflow:ellipsis. Here’s a screen shot:

IE Ellipsis

Unfortunately text-overflow:ellipsis is no standard and not supported by Firefox, Opera, etc. With some JavaScript hacking however you can have something similar to IE ellipsis on all browsers. It even degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.

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ShadedBorder on del.icio.us

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Wow - ShadedBorder was top 1 on the del.icio.us main page yesterday… Thanks everybody!

del.icio.us hotlist

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Lemmings in JavaScript

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Some of you may remember one of the best games of the 90s: Lemmings. I can’t remember how many hours I’ve played this neat game - but it must have been quite a lot. I still remember the first levels as if they once have been my home ;-).

The cool thing about Lemmings today is: You can you play it in your browser! For free!

So for those of you who never heard of Lemmings - give it a try. And for those who remember: celebrate the past - today.

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