Dominic Myers articles - 51 total
Dot Spinner
Last week, I got an itch, as I often do when checking the emails sent from Pinterest. There was one...
Sort HTML table only on child columns
I was recently asked to help sort table columns, but there was a specific use case. The original...
wc-trim-middle
I've lost track of the number of times I've needed to truncate text online, and I've tried all...
Container queries and column layouts.
We've recently introduced the possibility of new starters borrowing some of our old kit. A couple...
AskJS Toy problem
There was a post on Reddit last week that got me sort of excited (I probably need to get out...
Practicality over Purity
Image by Joshua Stairhime It was Voltaire who said that perfect is the enemy of good; it was me in...
Create dot notation array of strings from an Object
Image by Maxim Polak I created an object from an array of strings using dot notation last night. I...
Create an Object from dot notation
Image by Oleksandr Klymovych I was puzzled about this all afternoon. I came up with a terrible...
wc-slider (An alternative to the range input)
Shameless brag! This got mentioned in WebToolsWeekly! Image by Maksim Chernyshev HTML is...
Fixing the Donut
Image by Jessica May I've been playing with a pie-chart web component for a little while now, and I...
Sierpiński triangle
I was scrolling through TikTok a couple of evenings ago (I know, I'm probably far too old to do so,...
Sorting colours is a pain!
(Cover image by Garrick Ang) I've written before about sorting colours, and this got me thinking...
Donut bugs
(Cover image by Ivan Naunov) I noted before that my Donut Component - check the comments - has a...
Details/Summary elements and Lighthouse
By Una O Connor Jumping like a jackrabbit on crystal meth ...was how an...
My Virtual Challenge Percentage Bookmarklet
I did 1000 miles of exercise at the beginning of the year (I'm only £20 off my target if you want to...
px 2 rem sass
I was working with a designer recently and so had to convert px measurements to REM. Given that I set...
I was asked about extracting a subarray from an array of objects...
The function needed to be compliant with ES5, and the data was in this format: const bob = [ { ...
Vuetify and MDB
Both Vuetify and MDB implement the Material Design Design Language. Whereas Vuetify implements...
Polital Spectrum
I'm doing some writing on design languages at the minute and, in an aside, I talked about working...
Type checking JavaScript
By Adam Drobiec I read an article yesterday by Gil Tayar, which was fascinating. In it, he talked...
24 days of #JavaScriptmas (ongoing)
Xmas can be a somewhat exciting time, but the weather is frightful. We've had snow already this year...
p5 Clock (HUMANS SINCE 1982)
I saw this a little while back so this week I coded it using p5: A nice bit of modular JS too, so it...
JavaScript classes (ES5 and ES6)
JavaScript classes (ES5 and ES6) By Marco Antonio Martinez Soto Imagine you're a...
Rockstar? Nope, tone deaf.
By Ignacio Sarraf Despite the whole pandemic thing, the entire recruitment thing seems to be...
Day's until Xmas
Last night there was a question on Jay's Virtual Pub Quiz asking how many days there were until Xmas....
Frontend vs backend developers (well, not really)
@backend1: @frontend1, @frontend2 - a bug here @frontend1: @backend1 OMW @frontend2: @backend1 Sure...
The 10-Day JavaScript Challenge
Yay! There's another one started, such fun! I'll add to this is I go along. Day...
Red, Amber and Green progress bar
I've been doing some Moodle theming over the past few weeks and ended up discussing progress bars...
Free course: The 7-Day JavaScript Challenge
Scrimba are running a week-long JavaScript challenge, so I jumped in. Day 1 Initial...
SVG background image workflow
I've done a fair bit of work recently using SVGs as background images, so I thought I'd better...