Monthly Archives: September 2011
Cross browser opacity with CSS
Written on September 28, 2011 at 12:01 AM, by Simon
If you thought you couldn’t achieve cross browser opacity with pure CSS then you were wrong. Appart from the fact it doesn’t validate the following snippet works. Just be careful about the order you declare them in. .makeTransparent{ opacity: .75; /* standard: ff gt 1.5, opera, safari */ -ms-filter: “alpha(opacity=75)”; /* ie 8 */ filter: Continue Reading »
jQuery selectors – not first – not:(:first)
Written on September 27, 2011 at 12:01 AM, by Simon
Selectors are the building blocks of all JavaScript libraries. They are super powerful and save a lot of time… when they work. jQuery uses the sizzle selector engine and has some hardcore shorthand selectors to navigate the DOM, recently I have been having trouble combining ‘not‘ with ‘first‘ to exclude the first element from a group of elements. e.g. table rows. I found Continue Reading »