Print CSS backgrounds in Google Chrome & Safari webkit

Up until now it's been impossible, but a new fix published this week by the chrome team makes it simple for a site developer to trigger background printing using CSS...

Most simple/basic single level CSS dropdown menu without Javascript tutorial

Sometimes when web demos focus on extended functionality, it's difficult to identify and extract exactly what you need for your own project from the examples. With beginners & newcomers to CSS in mind, I've put together this extremely simple dropdown menu & tutorial. You can take this skeleton and add styling and content for your own project. This menu auto sizes/auto expands to fit its content and could easily be adapted to add more levels, animation or fancy styling.

Check out the demo here

Javascript: Auto-Expand a form's select box on hover/mouseover

Productivity is all about cutting down mouse clicks. With this in mind, I've written this function to open/close a html dropdown menu on mouseover/out. It's currently more of an idea than a usable function, so it might need some testing & tweaking to work cross browser in a real web environment but the basic principal is here to get you started.
Try a demo »