Disable mouse scroll / wheel Zoom on embedded iframe Google Maps
Web Designer / Developer usually embed Google Maps using iFrame in most websites. But, page scrolling stuck when user use mouse scroll in Google map area, and now it is working as Map zoom in/out. So, we always wonder that, "is there a way to disable the zoom via mouse scroll wheel on all of them using css or JavaScript?" Answer is "Yes", and here is powerful CSS's property - POINTER-EVENTS. For this, I am wrapping the Google map's iframe in a DIV. Default behavior of mouse in this DIV has been fixed to "pointer-events: none". It will terminate the zoom-in…
Updating address bar with new URL without hash or reloading the page
Just to make it easier to understand the article, this is what Facebook does when you open a photo, for example. The url bar changes to point DIRECTLY to that photo, so you can share the URL without losing where you are in the site. Remember sites based on framing last decade? You could only get the homepage url, because only internal frames were changing. And that was terrible. How to Update Address Bar with New URL without reloading the webpage? Is there any way, I can modify the URL of the current page without reloading the page? I would…
10 Useful Beginners JavaScript / jQuery tips and tricks
I consider myself as a advanced when it comes to coding in JavaScript or jQuery however recently I played a bit more with this language and stumbled upon a number of random things i assumed were worth sharing. As you know, JavaScript is the best programming language in the world, the language of the web, of mobile hybrid apps (like PhoneGap or Appcelerator), of the server side (like NodeJS or Wakanda) and has several other implementations. So, if you are new to JavaScript or simply don’t understand it as well as you'd like, I hope you find this article helpful. 1. 0 ==…
Add style to console log statements
Searching for errors in programming code is called code debugging. Debugging is not easy. But fortunately, all modern browsers have a built-in debugger. Built-in debuggers can be turned on and off, forcing errors to be reported to the user. With a debugger, you can also set breakpoints (places where code execution can be stopped), and examine variables while the code is executing. Normally, otherwise follow the steps at the bottom of this page, you activate debugging in your browser with the F12 key, and select "Console" in the debugger menu. Have you recently checked out Google Plus because they implement some awesome effects? I…
JQuery or JavaScript tricks for mobile devices like – Android, Windows, BlackBerry, Apple, iphone, ipad
JavaScript support is very good on modern mobile browsers. The mobile version of Firefox and Chrome provide pretty much desktop-level support for HTML5(CSS 3 + JavaScript + HTML 5 ) features. Most mobile phones are running some version of WebKit (what Chrome runs on), so you're pretty much guaranteed better support than IE8 provides if you're developing for mobile. Detecting Mobile Devices Instead of using jQuery you can use simple JavaScript to detect it: if( /Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Opera () ) { // some code for mobile } or you can combine them both to make it more accessible through jQuery. $. =…
Find Location With HTML5 Geolocation API
The Geolocation API is a new technology that’s introduced by W3C – the same organization behind HTML5. Probably for that reason, it is often correlated and grouped with HTML5 in many books and references, although it has actually nothing to do with HTML5 technically. In this post, we are going to use the API in its simplest form; we will create a set of functions to retrieve user’s location and show it in map with Google Maps. Let’s take a look. Why Geolocation API ? In many cases, obtaining user location would be extremely useful to establish better user experience, for…
Animated aquarium with pure CSS
Here is a pure CSS experimental work to create a aquarium. Image / javascript hasn't been used for aquarium or it's animation. I have used jQuery only for random air-bubbles. All these animation is created by Pure CSS. Some times ago, I had written a article about "Animated bubbles upwards continuously with pure CSS". You can also use this trick for air-bubbles. For Creating Aquarium's water, sand, rocks and plants few lines of HTML required. The HTML <div class="bubbles"></div> <div class="ground"></div> <div class="rock_1"></div> <div class="rock_2"></div> <div class="rock_3"></div> <div class="rock_4"></div> <div class="rock_5"></div> <div class="rock_6"></div> <div class="rock_7"></div> <div class="plant_1_wrap"> <div class="plant_1"></div> <div…
Animated 3D Background Pattern using HTML5 < canvas >
Hi friends, today we are going to see a cool example of animated 3D Background using HTML5 <canvas> and javascript. The <canvas> element is part of HTML5 and allows for dynamic, script-able rendering of 2D shapes and bitmap images. It is a low level, procedural model that updates a bitmap and does not have a built-in scene graph. The <canvas> element is only a container for graphics. You must use a script to actually draw the graphics. Canvas has several methods for drawing paths, boxes, circles, text, and adding images. What is canvas element in HTML? Canvas was initially introduced…
Analog clock using css3 and jquery
Hi guys! Today we are going to see another great example of analog clock using the power of CSS3 and most advanced library jQuery. We will start by creating a very cool and realistic analog wall clock with pure CSS3 properties, and add a little smooth rotation for giving the clock hands a rotating effect. The HTML Html part is very simple. <div id="clock"> <div id="hour" style="transform: rotate();"><img src=""></div> <div id="minute" style="transform: rotate(54deg);"><img src=""></div> <div id="second" style="transform: rotate(108deg);"><img src=""></div> </div> The CSS Now, It's time to play with some cool css3 properties like transition, transform and css easing. #clock { background-image: url(""); height: 200px;…
2013 in review
The stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. In 2013, there were 15 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 59 posts. The busiest day of the year was December 2nd with 959 views. The most popular post that day was CSS Techniques - Absolute Horizontal And Vertical…