This solution is written in PHP, but it should be easily adapted to other languages.
The original .htaccess
regex can cause problems with files like json-1.3.js
. The solution is to only rewrite if there are exactly 10 digits at the end. (Because 10 digits covers all timestamps from 9/9/2001 to 11/20/2286.)
First, we use the following rewrite rule in .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.[\d]{10}\.(css|js)$ $1.$2 [L]
Now, we write the following PHP function:
/**
* Given a file, i.e. /css/base.css, replaces it with a string containing the
* file's mtime, i.e. /css/base.1221534296.css.
*
* @param $file The file to be loaded. Must be an absolute path (i.e.
* starting with slash).
*/
function auto_version($file)
{
if(strpos($file, '/') !== 0 || !file_exists($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $file))
return $file;
$mtime = filemtime($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $file);
return preg_replace('{\\.([^./]+)$}', ".$mtime.\$1", $file);
}
Now, wherever you include your CSS, change it from this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/base.css" type="text/css" />
To this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo auto_version('/css/base.css'); ?>" type="text/css" />
This way, you never have to modify the link tag again, and the user will always see the latest CSS. The browser will be able to cache the CSS file, but when you make any changes to your CSS the browser will see this as a new URL, so it won't use the cached copy.
This can also work with images, favicons, and JavaScript. Basically anything that is not dynamically generated.
Using
$("a").attr("href", "http://www.google.com/")
will modify the href of all hyperlinks to point to Google. You probably want a somewhat more refined selector though. For instance, if you have a mix of link source (hyperlink) and link target (a.k.a. "anchor") anchor tags:
<a name="MyLinks"></a>
<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/">The CodeProject</a>
...Then you probably don't want to accidentally add href
attributes to them. For safety then, we can specify that our selector will only match <a>
tags with an existing href
attribute:
$("a[href]") //...
Of course, you'll probably have something more interesting in mind. If you want to match an anchor with a specific existing href
, you might use something like this:
$("a[href='http://www.google.com/']").attr('href', 'http://www.live.com/')
This will find links where the href
exactly matches the string http://www.google.com/
. A more involved task might be matching, then updating only part of the href
:
$("a[href^='http://stackoverflow.com']")
.each(function()
{
this.href = this.href.replace(/^http:\/\/beta\.stackoverflow\.com/,
"http://stackoverflow.com");
});
The first part selects only links where the href starts with http://stackoverflow.com
. Then, a function is defined that uses a simple regular expression to replace this part of the URL with a new one. Note the flexibility this gives you - any sort of modification to the link could be done here.
Best Answer
If you are using jQuery 1.2 or newer, you can simply use these:
From there it is a simple matter to decide the height of your element.