Today saw the launch of SixCrayons.com, a new design blog focussing on six main categories of front end web development, from design to additional enhancements using scripting languages such as Flash and JavaScript.
Although I have a hand in the majority of categories, JavaScript is something I have a keen interest in and was asked to write a short tutorial on a JS related subject. Continue reading “Today I wrote my first JavaScript tutorial”
I have recently attempted to load an image in JavaScript (using jQuery) and once loaded get it’s dimensions.
Using the following code I managed to successfully read the width and height properties in FireFox 2/3, IE 6/7, Windows Safari 3/4 and Google Chrome, but the dimensions were not available in Opera (10). Continue reading “JS preload image 'bug' in Opera”
I’ve written a very simple jQuery function to return a string padded to a specified length, similar to the php equivalent str_pad.
$.strPad = function(i,l,s) {
var o = i.toString();
if (!s) { s = '0'; }
while (o.length < l) {
o = s + o;
}
return o;
};
Example Usage:
$.strPad(12, 5); // returns 00012
$.strPad('abc', 6, '#'); // returns ###abc
This version only supports left padding, which is why it is labelled as only a simple version :).
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