Finding that perfect CSS button isn’t hard these days, just Google and you will end-up with many CSS button generators, all you need to do is copy and paste the code. But if you are looking for some extraordinary CSS buttons, or perhaps inspirations, there’s no other places like codepen.io, here are some 40+ CSS button examples I’ve picked from Codepen. Please bear with page loading if you have slow net connection.
If you are looking for multiple image uploader that doesn’t require flash plugin, here’s script that does it for you, it will nicely upload multiple image files and resize them using jQuery and PHP. User can easily add as many files before uploading and a nice progress bar lets you see the progress of the upload, but please note: progress bar requires modern browsers to function.
If you want a quick validation of your form without using any validation plugin, this jQuery snippet could do the trick. This snippet will prevent form submit and change field border color to red, unless user corrects the invalid or empty fields.$(document).ready(function() { $("#my_form").submit(function(e) { //loop through each required field and simply change border color to red for invalid fields $("#my_form input[required=true], #my_form select[required=true], #my_form textarea[required=true]").each(function(){ var proceed = true; $(this).css('border-color',''); //reset border color if(!$.trim($(this).val())){ //if this field is empty $(this).css('border-color','red'); //change border color to red //alert("Field is empty"); proceed = false; //set do not proceed flag } //check invalid email var email_reg = /^([\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/; if($(this).attr("type")=="email" && !email_reg.test($.trim($(this).val()))){ $(this).css('border-color','red'); //change border color to red proceed = false; //set do not proceed flag } if(proceed){ //everything looks good return; //submit form } e.preventDefault(); }); }); });Usage Just set your form id to “my_form” and add required attribute to each input field you want to validate, as shown in example below.
Ajax file uploader is useful web tool, which is actually very easy to create with jQuery and PHP, and with new HTML5 FileReader API support, we can do client side file validation before even uploading the file to server. Today we are going to combine all these web features to make an Ajax based file uploader, which can be easily integrated into any HTML forms.
