Using console.log() debugging in Visual Studio Code
WEBJul 30, 2021 — And it even works without a local server. So, let’s do this. Step 1: Create a folder and call it consoledebug. Step 2: Start Visual Studio Code, choose “open” – select that folder. Step 3: Select New File, call it index.html. Step 4: Add some HTML /JS and save it. Step 5: Select the “Run and Debug” icon and press the “Run and ...
Back to Basics: Creating a clickable card ... - Christian Heilmann
WEBNov 26, 2020 — Making inline links and buttons interactive. Positioning the inline links relative and the button absolute and giving them a z-index of 2 makes sure they can be interactive above the overlay.
Getting all the video thumbnails from a YouTube video
WEBJan 11, 2023 — Christian Heilmann is the blog of Christian Heilmann chris@christianheilmann.com (Please do not contact me about guest posts, I don't do those!) a Principal Program Manager living and working in Berlin, Germany.. Theme by Chris Heilmann. SVG Icons by Dan Klammer.Hosted by MediaTemple. Powered by Coffee and Spotify Radio. Get the feed, all the cool kids use RSS!
Seven ways to test for accessibility of your web site with browser ...
WEBJan 11, 2021 — Christian Heilmann is the blog of Christian Heilmann chris@christianheilmann.com (Please do not contact me about guest posts, I don't do those!) a Principal Program Manager living and working in Berlin, Germany.. Theme by Chris Heilmann. SVG Icons by Dan Klammer.Hosted by MediaTemple. Powered by Coffee and Spotify Radio. Get the feed, all the cool kids use RSS!
Using Live Server with Developer Tools in Visual Studio Code
WEBNov 22, 2022 — Right-click the file you want to open and choose “Open with live server”. Copy the location from the URL bar of the browser tab that Live server opened. Go back to VS Code and right-click the same file, this time choosing “Open with Edge” and either “Open Browser” or “Open browser with DevTools”. In the browser panel that opens ...
Interactive Typography cheatsheet | Christian Heilmann
WEBFeb 18, 2019 — Interactive Typography cheatsheet. A few weeks ago I stumbled across a great resource, a typography cheat sheet explaining the proper names of all the different parts of letters. I thought it would be fun to turn this into an interactive cheat sheet and wondered how much would be involved. Turns out, it wasn’t that much, so here is an ...
A launch.json setting for end-to-end web development
WEBJan 26, 2022 — When I start a new project these days I create the following launch.json file and put in in a .vscode folder on the the root of my project. This turns Visual Studio Code into an environment that gives me everything I need to build a …
Back to Basics: Event Delegation - Christian Heilmann
WEBNov 1, 2020 — Back to Basics: Event Delegation. Sunday, November 1st, 2020 at 2:53 pm. Back to basics is a series of small posts where I explain basic, dependency free web techniques I keep using in my projects. These aren’t revelations but helped me over the years to build sturdy, easy to maintain projects. One …
Keeping it simple: coding a carousel | Christian Heilmann
WEBApr 8, 2015 — Keeping it simple: coding a carousel. One of the things that drives me crazy in our “modern development” world is our fetish of over-complicating things. We build solutions, and then we add layers and layers of complexity for the sake of “making them easier to maintain”. In many cases, this is a fool’s errand as the layers of ...
So how do you add alternative text to background images?
WEBFeb 25, 2009 — CSS background images which are by definition only of aesthetic value – not visual content of the document itself. If you need to put an image in the page that has meaning then use an IMG element and give it an alternative text in the alt attribute. You can also add a title attribute to add extra information that will be displayed to every ...
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