RegEx: Get number and unit from a css property string in JavaScript

April 4th, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »
var numeric = "12px".match(/\d+/);
var unit = "12px".match(/\D+$/);

Source: stackoverflow: convert css units

CSS3: Preserve 3D for iOS, iPhone, iPad hardware acceleration

April 4th, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »

To have the iOS WebKit browser accelerate your html element, put the following css property to it

-webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;

CSS3: Cool glowing form border all in CSS3

April 2nd, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »

Demo: http://kaylarose.github.com/Glowform/

Source: http://github.com/kaylarose/Glowform

JavaScript: Aspect (AOP) in JavaScript

March 28th, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »

Great javascript lib for AOP: jQuery-AOP jQuery-AOP-Reference (just use the jQuery namespace)

before

jQuery.aop.before( {target: String, method: 'replace'},
  function(regex, newString) {
    alert("About to replace string '" + this +
           "' with '" + newString + "' using regEx '" + regex + "'");
  }
);

arround

jQuery.aop.around( {target: String, method: 'indexOf'},
  function(invocation) {
    alert('Searching: ' + invocation.arguments[0] + ' on: ' + this);
    return invocation.proceed();
  }
);

CSS3: Cool Twitter like Button (3D like)

March 23rd, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »

The Result:
CSS Button

The HTML:

<a href="#" class="btn"><span>Press this!</span></a>

The CSS:

.btn {
  display: inline-block;
  -webkit-border-radius: 8px;
  -moz-border-radius: 8px;
  border-radius: 8px;
  -webkit-box-shadow:
    0 8px 0 #1a74a1,
    0 15px 20px rgba(0,0,0,.35);
  -moz-box-shadow:
    0 8px 0 #1a74a1,
    0 15px 20px rgba(0,0,0,.35);
  box-shadow:
    0 8px 0 #1a74a1,
    0 15px 20px rgba(0,0,0,.35);
  -webkit-transition: -webkit-box-shadow .2s ease-in-out;
  -moz-transition: -moz-box-shadow .2s ease-in-out;
  -o-transition: -o-box-shadow .2s ease-in-out;
  transition: box-shadow .2s ease-in-out;
}

.btn span {
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 10px  20px;
  font-family: "cooper-black-std-1", "cooper-black-std-2", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  line-height: 1;
  text-shadow: 0 -1px 1px rgba(19,65,88,.8);
  background: #3194c6;
  background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#3194c6), to(#5bacd6));
  background: -moz-linear-gradient(#3194c6, #5bacd6);
  -webkit-border-radius: 8px;
  -moz-border-radius: 8px;
  border-radius: 8px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,.15);
  -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,.15);
  box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,.15);
  -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform .2s ease-in-out;
  -moz-transition: -moz-transform .2s ease-in-out;
  -o-transition: -o-transform .2s ease-in-out;
  transition: transform .2s ease-in-out;
}

.btn:active {
  -webkit-box-shadow:
    0 8px 0 #1a74a1,
    0 12px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
  -moz-box-shadow:
    0 8px 0 #1a74a1,
    0 12px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
  box-shadow:
    0 8px 0 #1a74a1,
    0 12px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
}

.btn:active span {
  -webkit-transform: translate(0, 4px);
  -moz-transform: translate(0, 4px);
  -o-transform: translate(0, 4px);
  transform: translate(0, 4px);
}

Source: Type Study: An All CSS Button

JavaScript: Sort an array of objects

March 13th, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »

The data:

var myData = new Array();
myData[0] = {FirstName:"John", LastName:"Doe", Age:40};
myData[1] = {FirstName:"Fred", LastName:"Smith", Age:41};

The sort function:

function sortByFirstName(a, b) {
    var x = a.FirstName.toLowerCase();
    var y = b.FirstName.toLowerCase();
    return ((x < y) ? -1 : ((x > y) ? 1 : 0));
}

Sorting:

myData.sort(sortByFirstName);

Source: breakingpar.com: JavaScript Sorting

jQuery: How to test if an Object is a jQuery object

February 25th, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »
if (obj.jquery){
 //it is a jquery object (and .jquery is the version)
}else{
 //it is not a jquery object
}

source jQuery Forum

iOS: WebKit UIWebView remove tap/click highlight/border with CSS

February 10th, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
-webkit-user-select: none;                /* disable text select */
-webkit-touch-callout: none;              /* disable callout, image save panel (popup) */
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; /* "turn off" link highlight */

Source: YUIBlog

Git: Ignoring a folder tree except a particular sub-folder

February 7th, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »

So, this will exclude any sub-folders form a but will include the sub-sub-sub-folder a/b/c and exclude the file a/b/c/file.xml

a/*
!b
a/b/*
!c
a/b/c/file.xml

jQuery: Bind and unbind the Esc key

February 4th, 2011 by jeremychone | No Comments »

Let’s say you want to allow your dialog boxes to be close when the user press “esc.”

$("body").bind("keyup.myDialog", function(event){
   // 27 == "esc"
   if (event.which == 27) {
      // TODO: close the dialog
      // unbind the event
      $("body").unbind("keyup.myDialog");
   }
});