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Testing Playwrite on for Node
I came across this library on y news, and thought id give it a bit of a test. I managed to get it working but not really sure what tests it can do. I set it to take a screen shot of a we..
validate email address from string with jquery working function
Here is a working example of this post validate email address from string. This has very basic checking of an email address by checking that the string has an @ and a . in it. Note: this is still no..
How to Use PropTypes to Define Props in React
React allows you to define the types of props given to your components to make sure that invalid data is not sent as the prop to the element. To do this you can define propTypes. You can defin..
how to view a web page in its printer format
if you have to check a website in its print or @media print format this is how you can emulate it in browser if you are using chrome or edge. Open the Dev Tools (usually F12) Click the menu ..
scroll down the page using a button click
scrolling down 600px from where you currently are on the screen demo vid
using clamp js to clamp lines of text
there is a css version of this as well but this version works in a greater range of browsers (i think) this one is not working for me... i think the overflow elipsis is still a better option than thi..
counting the occurrence of words in a multidimensional array
array sorting example The array Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => Some [1] => great-looking [2] => special [3] => editio..
check box highlight text area css
i just wanted to be able to highlight a text field if a certain check box was checked on a form in this demo below, if you click on the check1 checkbox it will give you an alert saying if the box is ..
replacement slider for ken wheeler's slick carousel tiny slider 2 [testing]
I have been looking for a little while for a replacement for the now classic and a bit depreciated, ken wheeler's slick carousel. After a bit of looking around i think the best replacement, is a non ..
add click event to multiple link items and load the link content into a target div ajax
this will get a group of links with existing href targets and load them dynamically with an ajax callback you will need to also include the full jquery script as the slim one does not include the aja..
get the value of an input form element (input value)
add how to get the value of an input form element with javascript for some reason i can get this working with: Javascript console.log(document.getElementById("my_input").value); but when trying to..
installing exfat and ntfs drivers to enable reading of these filesystems
this will install the ntfs package on your linux system, allowing you to read and mount ntfs partitions on drives. NTFS 3G BASH sudo apt updatesudo apt install ntfs-3g This should give you the fol..
adding background blur to an image using css fill screen
I had noticed this cool looking effect used on places like google, and other sites that display portrait images, i think i saw it on the google home as well or maybe google photos. Its basicall..
how to check linux kernel version on rasberry pi rasberian
You can check which linux kernel version on rasberry pi a couple of ways, the easiest is using the uname command BASH uname -r which should give you something like this (but probably not exactly th..
how to find what version pi you are using
So i was wondering the other day how to show what raberry pi i had, rather than opening it up. you can install lshw and it can list all your hardware Install it with BASH uname -r which should gi..
css slow zoom in animation
give a bit of extra interest to otherwise static images
wordpress get the current category id name and slug
This gets and displays the current category id in a wordpress blog post if you have the current id, if not you can leave the $post_id blank and it should see if there is a category loaded to the curre..
extracting the useful bits of bootstrap
Back in the early instances of bootstrap they used to provide a build system for the individual components. It seems that these days its all or nothing, or use some kind of build tool to include the b..
Bootstrap Darkmode Switch
I have tried this before without success but i googled "Bootstrap Darkmode Switch" and found this repo at the top of the list. So i thought i would give it a try on here and see how it looks. Demo pag..
using let rather than var
Using let rather than var and use strict can avoid some overwriting of variables i will write a function here that shows how let throws an error. This function now gives an error in the console. Uncau..
calculate a percentage (dec) difference based on two numbers
this function will show you the percentage difference between two numbers
How Many Days Since a Date and other Calculations
Here i calculate the number of days since a certain date in php and use the values for checking how much something costs per day. Start Date Lets add the date that the item was purchaced. In d..
Generate a random title from an array
give this an array of strings and it will pick a random one to return from the array.
get current class name with get_class
This will return the current class name, can be used in side a function of the current class object or give it another object name to return. class myclass {function myfunction() {echo get_class($thi..
using parse_url to extract parts of a url
Category: PHP the parse_url php function will split a url into an array of url fragments $url = "http://kruxor.com/path/?argument=value#anchor"; var_dump(parse_url($url)); parse_url example ..
using custom request headers array with curl
this function passes in an array with custom request headers to curl, good if you need to pass in some headers to request an api url and give it an auth key or something like that. Also added to the a..
stacktable jQuery plugin for stacking tables on small screens
stacktable.js The purpose of stacktable.js is to give you an easy way of converting wide tables to a format that will work better on small screens. It creates a copy of the table that is converted in..
copy image to data uri using chrome base64 encode
Update: 26 Aug 2020 - Fixed video and original image link all should be working now in chrome. Found this one useful if you want to convert an image to base64 encode and link it directly in css or ht..
make your images look non squished when not using image backgrounds
Update: Fixed the code, you can see it here. i deal with a lot of sites where they have a bunch of images listed and sometimes they can end up looking a bit sqashed unless you add a div and set..
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986