Greg’s Sandbox

Notes on Front-End Web Development

16 Feb modified: 8 years ago

Figure with Figcaption on a Page

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The article below has been depricated. I've since built a shortcode that will allow direct insertion of a figure with source attribution and caption text.

Photo captions are hard! Best case scenario would be for someone to write a shortcode plugin for the html figure element.

However there…

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26 Jan modified: 8 years ago

Markdown in HTML

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Wrapping markdown into html

Although I understand that markdown extra needs to be enabled in order to add html classes to img tags. For example:

![Rubber Ducky - alt text](Ducky_500px.png?cropZoom=200,200) {.float-right}

Markdown pages are very comfortable running straight HTML in addition to markdo…

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25 Jan modified: 8 years ago

Simple CSS Image Slider

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Cookbook tutorial for a CSS image slider containing four images. Relies on the jQuery plug-in named "Slidy". Rather crude, but it does seem to work with minimal set up... just some keyframe rules in the _custom.scss file.

Perhaps it might be worthwhile to explore the GSAP version of this technique? Definitely, but I'll need to wait until I have more skills to tackle that project. Reference files for GSAP technique are found at:

C:\Users\Gregory Chambers\_gProjects\GSAP_Instruction\gregGSAP_Class\Image Slider

Start by placing the images into this folder.

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