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Have you ever had the need to know the general location of a visitor of your website? You can get that information, without having to explicitly ask for it, by the user’s IP address. You’re just going to need a API to give you that information, and that’s exactly what ipstack is.

Here’s me right now:

This works globally through an API that covers over …

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Say you have a really long word within some text inside an element that isn’t wide enough to hold it. A common cause of that is a long URL finding it’s way into copy. What happens? It depends on the CSS. How that CSS is controlling the layout and what the CSS is telling the text to do.

This is what a break-out text situation might be like:

The text hanging out of the box is a visual problem.

One …

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There are a variety of “buttons” in HTML. You’ve got:

<button>Button</button>
<input type="button" value="Button">

Plus, for better or worse, people like having links that are styled to match the look of other true buttons on the site

<a href="#0" class="button">Button</a>

One challenge is getting all those elements to look and layout exactly the same. We’ll cover that a few ways.

Another challenge is getting people to use them correctly

This is a bit surprising to me — but I hear …

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