Tweet For Code #1

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You don't need a thousand lines of code to make a big difference in any coding language.  Oftentimes it's quite the opposite:  a few tiny code snippets can do a world of good and accomplish big things.  I asked my Twitter followers to tweet to me their favorite tiny snippets of code -- that's a bit difference to try to pack into 140 characters!  Here are my favorites from this round!

Vertically Centering Elements

Vertically centering elements is a massive pain, even 20 years into CSS' life. This snippet cures all of those issues:

border-box All the Things!

I've seen a lot of people mention applying this CSS globally. I've not done so but it's worth checking out.

View All Global Variables and Object Properties

I love this for (manually) checking for leaked global variables. Can also be used on other objects to get properties and methods.

Targeting Chrome

Targeting Chrome on mobile done with just CSS? Nice!

Viewing the Current State of an Object

Using console.log on objects which may change will throw you off. This snippet prints out the object and its values at the immediate state:

Emulate console.dir

If a given browser doesn't support console.dir, you can use this code snippet:

Prevent IE Stair Stepping

Internet Explorer's "stair stepping" effect -- we've all been there, we haven't always had a fix.

This is just the first TFC -- I'll be running these periodically over the year.  Great work to those who tweeted this round and I hope to get the same massive response next time!

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Discussion

  1. border-box! border-box! border-box!

    Easily one of my favorites.

  2. Christian

    Brian, with his vertical-align code should be nominated president of the world…

  3. Nice tweets! Good idea!

  4. Great idea Indeed and really cute tweet specially third one.

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