Posts Filed as Geek Out

All outside links open in a new window, with jQuery

November 2nd, 2009

Today a client asked if all the links on his site could open in a new window. I solved that problem with jQuery, and here’s how: <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"> jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery("a").filter(function() { return this.hostname &&a…

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Absolutely positioned div disappears in IE6.

September 25th, 2009

What is up with this? I really hate IE6, but this is so incredibly stupid that you have to do this. The problem is that if you have an absolutely positioned item next to a floated item, the absolutely positioned item mysteriously disappears. I spent a half-hour working on this before finding a resource…

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Styling Blockquotes with Psuedo classes

August 28th, 2009

Ok, so a few years ago I was fairly new to working with CSS and XHTML, and found it really frustrating that I couldn’t use two background images  to place quote images before and after a blockquote with CSS. Well, you still can’t do it with the “background” selector, but you c…

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Why I love web development

August 28th, 2009

I love web development. And this is why: It is the close to endless potential to create. It is the type of creativity I was born for, the type that has always moved me. The same with building things, and electronics (though I don’t know enough to modify all that I would like). It’s the same re…

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