On a recent project I had to allow users to upload their memories. Memories are vague things and I had to enable users to upload and assign incomplete dates. They needed to be able to enter ‘The 90′s’ or ‘September 2000′ as well as complete dates ’1st Feb 2009′.
I consider myself pretty good with css. Doesn’t take me long to convert a photoshop design into working html so I was surprised to find today that there was an easy way to ellipsis to truncated text! Works in all browsers bar FireFox!
overflow:hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;
I had an annoying problem with IE8 today. In the CMS, toolbars appear when you hover over a content block or the page content. All I’ve done is user div:hover.
IE though does not recognise the object if its background is set to transparent and is empty. If you set a background colour then it fires the hover. I tried giving it hasLayout but that made no difference! Very strange behaviour!
Whilst working on the CMS I needed to be able to pass back the html a control will render when the user first adds it. The control doesn’t exist on the page yet as the sections are added via javascript. It was very easy to pass in StringWriter to the render function to get the html 
Coming from a .net background I must admit to missing many of the features that the framework provides like Hastables, Dictionaries and Lists. I've just come up with a really simple dictionary class that I use to hold results from my id parsing routine.
Read more...Here is my first freely available jQuery plug-in. There are a few more to follow soon including a form builder and a file explorer 
I know there are a million calendar selectors out there but I needed one that covered historical dates (1800-2100). It displays either as a in place calendar in the page or as a drop down aka. combo box style.