Today saw the launch of SixCrayons.com, a new design blog focussing on six main categories of front end web development, from design to additional enhancements using scripting languages such as Flash and JavaScript.
Although I have a hand in the majority of categories, JavaScript is something I have a keen interest in and was asked to write a short tutorial on a JS related subject. Read More
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
I’ve written a very simple jQuery function to return a string padded to a specified length, similar to the php equivalent str_pad.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | $.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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Hi, my name is Steve and this is my blog. I am a web developer based in the United Kingdom. I like (X)HTML, CSS, Flash, ActionScript3, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, [paste trendy words here] and Mapping APIs.