Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I was hit with a small challenge of fixing a snippet of code that fixed a problem with a third party application called Media Manager. It does some pretty nifty things with videos — but it also injects a <style> … Continue reading
Category: CSS
WARNING!
Below you are about to see some CSS tips, tricks, hacks – some clever, some stupid. These are not guaranteed to work in every browser, nor do I care if they do. You’ll probably want to look at these in a webkit browser such as Chrome, Safari, Android, or Amazon Silk. I’ll apologize for how these look in Internet Explorer, if you apologize for using it to begin with.
Changing Media Manager Video Sizes with Tridion: a Fullscreen problem
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt my Media Manager presentation at Tridion Developer Summit a few weeks ago, I showed a trick for resizing your Media Manager videos outside of Media Manager’s outlets. This morning, I learned that there was a bug with the approach, … Continue reading
Exploring the CSSOM: Making a CSS Object Analyzer
Reading Time: 4 minutesA while back I wrote about an amazing discovery I’d made in which I learned that stylesheets are part of the DOM. I mentioned some properties to play with for fun and profit, and then heartily went on my way. … Continue reading
True story: The Android Web Browser is the Honey Badger of Flexbox
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been working for the last month or two on some super cool mobile templates for a client. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, we’ve pulled out all of the awesome for this. If Tridion were a person, it would … Continue reading
Tridion Pro Tip: Add a Multimedia Type for CSS Preprocessor extensions
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, you’re hooked on the idea of using a CSS preprocessor, and you’re thinking of even managing your files in Tridion. Not a bad idea, right? But uploading those binaries into a multimedia schema isn’t as easy as it looks. … Continue reading
Architecting the CSS in a Tridion Implementation (How to keep the hippies from winning)
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a previous post that I wrote, I talked about living the web developer’s fantasy of being told, “be as cutting edge as you want”, and how Joe Shirley (a fellow Tahzooligan) and I decided to use all the nice … Continue reading
CSS: The Breakdown || The Selector and Grammar (Part 1)
Reading Time: 11 minutesCSS is so cool and easy! Since it’s not a programming language, anyone can do it! You just need to know the properties and how to write a selector, and the job is done! If you agreed with any of … Continue reading
Exploring the DOM: Your stylesheets are objects (document.styleSheets)
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo, I was helping out a fellow coworker with a JavaScript issue where we were trying to figure out if there was a property somewhere that could tell us what the referring window was. While he was using ‘the googles’, … Continue reading
Clever CSS Tricks: Debugging HTML and CSS with Generated Content and Pseudo Elements
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust this morning I had a small conundrum where I was trying to debug some HTML and CSS that I had written. Specifically, I was trying to figure out where some of my wrappers were, and how some alt and … Continue reading
CSS for a CMS: Adapting to what the content author puts on the page
Reading Time: 5 minutesWorking in Content Management System (CMS) implementations has its challenges. While some of those challenges are in the application itself, many can be with the content authors. Content authors expect a certain amount of flexibility in how they can add … Continue reading