I was recently using a simple Unicode arrow (▶) for a play button on a video which looked great, everywhere, except on iOS it was being rendered as an Emoji: Although not terrible, it didn’t work with our design. The fix is luckily easy, you just need to explicitly specify…
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I hate Font Awesome like I hate jQuery
First off, if you don’t know me then you might be offended or enraged by that statement. Please, keep reading. Font Awesome is a truly great collection of icons that can be easily deployed with a simple CSS or JS include. A ton of work has gone into it to…
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Yahoo search result – CCC in front of page titles
In Yahoo’s search result some of our page titles were being prefixed the “C C C” which, of course, was really weird. Charlie figured this one out. My money was on some corrupt HTML tag that was trying to set a color to hex #CCC but that wasn’t right. Let me show…
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HTML Select placeholder
If a select element has a required attribute specified does not have a multiple attribute specified has a display size of 1 AND if the value of the first option element in the select element’s list of options (if any) is the empty string that option element’s parent node is…
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Using SVGs in HTML
I’ve been using SVGs in websites for a long time now but always as files on disk linked either via img or image tags. Recently, however, I started to use them in-content as if they were actually HTML tags. By doing this you have easier access for color changes as well as…