2nd March 2009

JS preload image 'bug' in Opera

I have recently attempted to load an image in JavaScript (using jQuery) and once loaded get it’s dimensions.

Using the following code I managed to successfully read the width and height properties in FireFox 2/3, IE 6/7, Windows Safari 3/4 and Google Chrome, but the dimensions were not available in Opera (10). Read More

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27th February 2009

Simple jQuery string padding function

I’ve written a very simple jQuery function to return a string padded to a specified length, similar to the php equivalent str_pad.

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$.strPad = function(i,l,s) {
	var o = i.toString();
	if (!s) { s = '0'; }
	while (o.length < l) {
		o = s + o;
	}
	return o;
};

Example Usage:

$.strPad(12, 5); // returns 00012
$.strPad('abc', 6, '#'); // returns ###abc

This version only supports left padding, which is why it is labelled as only a simple version :) .

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26th February 2009

CSS Opacity in Opera using jQuery

Whilst attempting to cross browser test a jQuery plug-in that I’m currently working on, I noticed that my opacity settings were being ignored in my current version of Opera (9.23).

$("#id").css({opacity: 0.8});

It turns out that the latest version of jQuery (1.3.1) doesn’t believe that Opera 9.2 supports CSS opacity, and therefore it is ignored completely. Read More

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