I am looking for a correct method to create something very similar to this (just click Next on that page). I would love to receive any suggestions on how this has been made.
I believe that it's all about a DIV wrapping many ul's. When next is clicked, probably a jQuery code is showing an hidden DIV on the right, but wouldn't know how to position it. Everything clearly must be taken from a database.
Can anyone out there give me an advice? I hope this is not the kind of a thumbs-down question, as I tought this community would have been the best place to share this. Thanks a lot.
Take a look at some existing JavaScript MVC frameworks like Backbone.js, AngularJS, or Knockout, to understand some of the design patterns and philosophies behind these kinds of dynamic UIs.
They can be powerful for tools for a modern web app, especially when you have a lot of moving parts in your UI. They'll play well with your backend and datastore via AJAX, and you get nice features like "routing" which can help you do cool things with page flow, all the while keeping your JavaScript clean and concise.
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Sorry if this question sounds stupid but im a noob with wordpress.
I am a javascript developer, and I want make a little game (or games) with wordpress. Opening main page there is a sliding puzzle. After complete, a button appears and clicking there you pass to another page. This is basically the same to all pages.
But I can't find were i put my javascript or HTML code. I create the pages but I can't edit them the way I want, everytime i try to do it i only can edit like word. I cant create, change or edit divs attibutes or tags. To be honest the only thing i can edit is CSS in stylesheet, but is too limited.
I have done the search, try found a solutions or ways to done it but when i look to tutorials is all diferent from what i see.
to give you an ideia I want to do a mix of this:
-> http://www.rustylake.com/room-escape-games/cube-escape-case-23.html
and this
-> https://ebonyriddle.com/
but i don't know how to edit page to page.
can you help me?
Thanks for everything
PS: I know I can do it without Wordpress, but I want use it anyway to learn more about the CMS (because of work) maintain website structure and later learn how to do my own templates or plugins.
To answer your question directly, yes it is possible (and easy, relatively speaking) to add custom code to every page / post of a Wordpress site.
More generally, you’re talking about creating a custom Wordpress theme, which you can find out more about here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
and here:
https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/getting-started/ (Good suggestion from #ItsGeorge)
Regarding adding custom JavaScript to a theme, your files will need to be enqueued as per these instructions.
Outlining the steps involved in Wordpress theme development would go beyond the scope of your question, but there are plenty of resources online and answers to Wordpress specific questions on wordpress.stackexchange.com. You will need to familiarise yourself with php as well as JavaScript, to take full control of Wordpress.
I would say that developing a game feels like an odd fit... If learning Wordpress is your objective, a blog or personal website might be a better place to start, then you could move onto a game once you are familiar with the concepts involved, e.g. the loop, which plays a huge part in how Wordpress works
Good luck!
The primary focus of WordPress is to put HTML code and JS out of the user. You might manage your extra JavaScript files with your theme customization. If you want to get more control about how your pages are rendering, you should use action hooks and filters. The simplest way for you is to override each page template like this
https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/#single-page
The preferable resource to ask Wordpress related questions is https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/
I'm learning web design, and there is no better method than redoing others work. So I'm reading other pages code, but it's so hard to find the jQuery, Javascript or modernizer or ... code responsible for the effect.
I'm using firebug, also used firequery, but the problem is they give me the event but not the code and a big tree of DOM, I don't know where even I look into it.
I really don't care which event is triggered, but I do care how the code is written. If I find the code so I can understand the event is on click or on focus...
Or let's say a website has a some javascript file, linked to a website. when I load the webpage i get a webpage consist of DOM and external/internal script. When I see a cool effect and want to read the code, I run firebug, inspect element to find the element. After that I don't know what to do? I can't search for selector or event in the script because maybe the developer of the site used different selector that I'm searching. Sometimes I find the code, but it's so jammed, not in human readable form, I don't know how to change the code to something indent and neat
The problem becomes more dramatic when the website using other java framework than jQuery.
I've searched a lot, used many tools, but couldn't find anything useful, please with your advice light my way to learn web developing
edit:--
I found a way but I'm sure there should be a better way outside
first in chrome I inspect the element to find the corresponding element, then i right click and check all the break point on it(if it doesn't work i do the same for parent element)
after that i play with that element to trigger the function and it break
usually the function that called the method is down in the callstack
also for reading
also for reading the script i use pretty print of chrome, i used some online prettyfier but most of them has limitation in number of character, for a long script none of the google first page resault is good enough. so the only good option here is for now is chrome, anyone have any other method?
It is difficult to learn how to do things just from inspecting it, as many effects may be implemented entirely in JavaScript, which may be deep, hidden away in a source file.
You mention that the code is not in human readable form, beautifying it may help:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/6318092/1061602
Most 'visual' effects should be able to be viewable from the CSS, e.g. JQuery Mobile's buttons, it is possible to see how the different classes are combined, ui-shadow, ui-btn, ui-disabled etc
Otherwise, searching for selectors is pretty much all you can do. Personally, if I am learning, looking at too much code at one time can be overwhelming. Also a lot of the UI effects may be difficult to trace.
My advice is, perhaps a better way around it would be to try and describe one single effect that you require, and then search on Google or Stack Overflow for guidance on how to create that effect.
The usual documentation sources will be useful:
http://www.w3schools.com/css3/default.asp
http://api.jquery.com/
Happy learning!
This may be a very basic question, but is it possible to post a jsfiddle that captures a Rails environment, the js, css, and HTML that is generating a nagging problem? I posted another SO question here: Unable to float a twitter bootstrap navbar item right with either class=pull-right or float:right
... and it was suggested I post something to jsfiddle. Honestly, I'm just completely in the dark as to how I might gather the css, js, and HTML in a way that can be copy-pasted into jsfiddle. Is there some slick way to pull the 4 necessary components together?
I am mostly interested in being being able to share and debug code that pertains to display and layout.
Many thanks in advance.
Sites like jsfiddle and jsbin are useful as testbeds for various issues involving HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. A good workflow for using them might be as follows:
Before going to one of those sites, use a browser debugger (Firebug, the Chrome debugger, or even the debugger in modern versions of IE if you must) to figure out the mechanics of the issue. Are you seeing unexpected JavaScript behavior? Weird layout? Whatever the problem, see if you can narrow the focus as much as possible.
Now, go to one of the workbench sites (make an account for yourself too; it helps to be able to find old experiments) and start trying to reproduce the problem. Start as simply as possible and work up. It can be hard and frustrating, but in my experience even the process of trying to figure out an isolating test case can itself lead to enlightenment :-)
If you do manage to isolate a behavior that you don't understand or can't explain or whatever, you can then save the test case (jsfiddle has "Save" and "Update" buttons; jsbin seems to magically save things automatically) and then post the URL here (or anyplace else). If you do post here, it's a good idea to copy the relevant code from your test case directly into your question.
I use both of those sites (and there may be more of them out there). The jsbin site gives you a little more control over your page, and provides a way to see your page outside of an <iframe>. That's kind-of important if you're testing for mobile applications. Otherwise they're both great resources.
Oh, and both sites let you import various popular libraries via simple configuration tools. That's really handy for tracking bugs that you think may have been introduced by a library version change (rare, but really freaky when it happens).
I'm going through a pretty amazing ruby on rails course. Just a second ago I learned about flash hashes that show a message after some action has been performed.
Obviously, you can apply styling to it and what have you, but I wonder if there are ready-to-go javascript snippets out there that, in the case of flash hashes, would slide in for a second, and then disappear? (much like the stackoverflow message bar that appears up top)
I don't know if learning rudimentary javascript is something I'd want to do right now (maybe later, I need to stick with one thing) so I was wondering if there was some resource that is known for ready to go scripts like that?
Merci :)
This is not exactly what you asked for but the jQuery and jQuery UI libraries provide a fair number of animation effects that you might find useful.
jQuery UI effect() demos - you can also view the source to see how it's being done.
jQuery effects - in particular, you might be interested in fadeIn() and fadeOut(). Again, you can also view the source to see how to use these functions.
I'd like to know what can be done in a browser UI (using a browser+CSS+javascript, not using Flash or Silverlight). For example, I think it's possible to:
Drag and drop
Arrange list items horizontally, and make them behave like menu items
Make things on page visible or invisible, depending on where the mouse is hovering
I admit this is a broad question, but that's what I'm looking for: an overview of available UI techniques (preferably with, also, at least a little clue or hyperlink as to how to implement each one).
Do you know of such a list or dictionary?
I'm especially interested in any techniques for interaction and user input (i.e. not simply page layout and navigation where the end-user is only consuming information).
Edit: people answered that I should look to see what functionality is implemented in various 'JavaScript UI toolkits'. FWIW, the following are my brief review/summary after looking at some of the suggestions.
http://demos.mootools.net/ -- implements a small (not wide) variety of UI features
http://ajaxian.com/by/topic/ui -- not an organized or coherent reference, more like a blog that reviews various things.
http://jqueryui.com/demos/ -- concise, organized introduction to a dozen interactions and/or widgets
http://plugins.jquery.com/ -- a library of a couple of thousand 'plug-ins' in 20 categories ... vaster and not so immediately understandable nor so consistently documented as the jqueryui demos
http://www.dojotoolkit.org/ -- takes a bit of navigating ... the easiest introduction to all functionality might be http://dojocampus.org/explorer/
http://script.aculo.us/ -- not very big
http://extjs.com/ -- quite a variety of powerful features, with a good set of demos at http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/samples.html
http://mochikit.com/ -- this is another small library
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ -- includes about 20 widget classes, thorough documentation (each class description includes a link to demos), and special mention for having "Layout Manager" and "CSS Reset".
http://www.midorijs.com/ -- quite small and simple, no demos
To summarize, I think the best answers (i.e. the easiest-to-browse collections of the most functionality) are:
http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/samples.html
http://dojocampus.org/explorer/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/
A very great many things can be done in JS.
Try any of these javascript libraries:
http://www.dojotoolkit.org/
http://mootools.net/
http://jquery.com/
http://script.aculo.us/
http://extjs.com/
http://mochikit.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
http://www.midorijs.com/
If you accept the HTML Canvas as valid HTML (Microsoft doesn't), you can do even more (requires Canvas support in your browser):
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial
http://www.blobsallad.se/
http://www.benjoffe.com/code/demos/canvascape/ - 3rd person shooter
look at the documentation for things like mootools and jquery UI, there are plenty of examples of the crazy stuff that you can do in there.
Also check out ajaxians UI section
check out jquery UI http://jqueryui.com/ as well as plugins http://plugins.jquery.com/
this is just a simple example what you can achieve via Java Script
I think you could in principle do almost anything you can think of that involves the page changing how it looks in response to user action. I mean, js can do amazing visual effects, including pretty complex animation and vectors, and retrieve data from anywhere that allows it to using ajax, so put that way you can display anything you want how you want.
The question is how much resources these take client side. While pretty much anything is possible, not everything will necessarily be practical, and I doubt there's any reliable way to decide which things will be too resource-heavy to realistically implement on the client side.
Check out JQuery and JQueryUI