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Internet Explorer comes with a nice CSS feature for truncating text by appending three little dots: text-overflow:ellipsis. Here’s a screen shot: Unfortunately text-overflow:ellipsis is no standard and not supported by Firefox, Opera, etc. With some JavaScript hacking however you can … Continued
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 … Continued
Imagine you have an image on your web page. And you want to crop an area from that image and display it with a given size. And you want to do that, without the server having to do the heavy … Continued
Unobstrusive JavaScript is getting popular. Scripts are used to enrich a page’s look while the HTML source code remains pretty clean. Examples are jQuery, script.aculo.us, and of course RUZEE.Borders ;-). One important method is the retrieval of the current CSS … Continued
There are quite some complaints and solutions about Firefox displaying annoying “unresponsive JavaScript detected, continue?” messages. If you have scripts that simply sometimes take longer to do their stuff, you shouldn’t however force your visitors to change the default JavaScript … Continued
There are many ways to do rounded corners on web pages. This tutorial describes a solution based on RUZEE.Borders. It shows how the web page has to be structured and how to add a drop shadow to an HTML element … Continued
Lightbox JS is a JavaScript lib for overlaying images on top of your web page. Kjell Bublitz from mentorsblog wrote a neat little WordPress plugin (in german) for it. Try it out by clicking on the image below: