Trent Richardson

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Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

I thought I would share with you quickly how you can use CSS3 selectors to spice up your Impromptu buttons. Lets say you have a prompt with a Delete button. Delete normally indicates caution/danger/warning which is usually represented by a red color. We can let our CSS do the dirty work and have it find [...]

UberUploadCropper 0.2 With Example

Finally, I’ve put together an example of UberUploadCropper, as well as getting it up to date with Uploadify 2.1. If you don’t remember what UberUploadCropper is, it is a small jquery plugin that brings together Uploadify, Impromptu, and Jcrop, to seamlessly upload and crop images. Here’s a visual: For a brief snippet of code of [...]

If you do much reporting I’m sure you’ve encountered needing to sum up a row, or divide, or average some data in a grid, much like you would do in Excel. Its actually not that difficult to whip up a simple, dynamic solution with javascript. I’m using jQuery, but it would be equally as simple [...]

Tables still have their place in the web development world. The best use for them is to display data in a grid, like for reports. I’d like to show a quick example of how to color the columns and rows using CSS3 with rgba. I won’t show the full source code on the blog, but [...]

As if there aren’t enough web galleries out there I’m adding one more, FetchIdeas.com. This is a site which I have created over the past couple months, with a different approach than other galleries. My aim is to create better organization, publish only useful resources, and most of all provide a great place to Fetch [...]