Walter Davis
Walter was born in the land of cheese, and raised in the desert by prairie dogs and Jesuits. He lives near Philadelphia with his lovely wife, three daughters, and a racing poodle.
He is a recovering photographer, and enjoys speaking about himself in the third person.
83 Actions
Walter Davis (11 December 2013) Add Selector
If you are creating an external style sheet using CSSEdit or another stylesheet editor, you might become impatient with Freeway’s lack of classnames and weak support for IDs within its interface. The Extended dialog can help you add these, but it’s torturous to use. This action will allow you to apply a classname and/or an ID to nearly any element of a Freeway page.
115 downloads, 3 comments.
Walter Davis (8 May 2012) AjaxFileListing
Create a linked list of files from a directory on your server using this Action. Requires PHP on your server and JavaScript in the browser, but falls back gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.
77 downloads, 28 comments.
Walter Davis (18 June 2016) Anonymous
This Action removes the IDs from any elements (and their children) to which it is attached.
124 downloads, 4 comments.
Walter Davis (12 January 2013) BreakPoint
This Action will allow you to redirect to alternate pages or sites based on the maximum width of the browser’s screen. If you have designed a mobile site, and want to redirect to it in any narrow browser (not just an iPhone or iPad) then this Action will do that for you.
153 downloads, 1 comment.
Walter Davis (26 July 2012) BrowserUpdate
Page and Folder Action to insert the Browser Update service JavaScript into your pages. Visitors with an older browser will be gently reminded to upgrade.
61 downloads, 2 comments.
Walter Davis (8 May 2012) CalendarView
Apply this Action to a text field to make an easy popup calendar for choosing dates. Based on http://calendarview.org and includes Prototype (so no MooTools on the same page).
196 downloads, 16 comments.
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Walter Davis (22 January 2013) CalendarView2
This is a new version of CalendarView, updated under the hood to streamline your page and make it load faster.
207 downloads, 2 comments.
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Walter Davis (30 January 2013) Carousel
This Action allows you to create the effect popularized on the Coda Web site. Clicking on a control causes a portion of the page to “slide” either horizontally or vertically to reveal a new part of the layout.
520 downloads, 35 comments.
Walter Davis (21 March 2018) Carousel 2
Update March 2018
1272 downloads, 11 comments.
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Walter Davis (21 November 2013) CheckboxGhost
When you submit a form without checking a checkbox, does anyone hear it? No, they don’t. This Action adds a hidden field directly before the checkbox to force the field to be submitted to the server, whether it is checked or not.
31 downloads, 0 comments.
Walter Davis (14 January 2013) CheckboxHelper
Add a PHP-based automatic “checked” attribute to your checkbox form elements. Enter the name of the variable that is either true or has a true-ish value, and the Action does the rest.
31 downloads, 0 comments.
Walter Davis (16 April 2010) Classify
This function allows you to change the ID of an element into its ClassName, thus avoiding ID conflicts in repeating template elements.
18 downloads, 0 comments.
Walter Davis (24 February 2011) Code Buddy
Code Buddy is a page action that simplifies working with external markup items in your Freeway pages. It allows you to easily add external markup to your pages while retaining the power and vestility of your code or text editor.
82 downloads, 1 comment.
Walter Davis (9 May 2008) Comment
Add a set of comments around any layer on the page. This helps you locate a particular element when viewing or editing the source code.
49 downloads, 2 comments.
Walter Davis (20 July 2008) ContentNegotiation
Content Negotiation is an optional feature of the Apache Web server. It allows you to provide the same content in different languages, relying on the browser’s preferences to determine which language to send – all automatically. This Action automates the production of the index.var file that tells Apache which languages your site supports.
20 downloads, 0 comments.
Walter Davis (14 July 2008) CrowBar
By default, Freeway wraps any text within a DIV with a container tag, such as a P. Even Markup Items get this treatment, so it is difficult to add a block of code inline that will generate a DIV or UL or another block-level tag without the result becoming an invalid mess.
176 downloads, 1 comment.
Walter Davis (4 March 2020) CSS3 Columns
Make multi-column text without any extra elements. Apply this Action to a text box, set the number of columns or the desired column width, the space and divider properties, and see multi-column text in your modern browser. As with all CSS3 goodies, browsers that don’t support these properties will silently ignore them.
218 downloads, 2 comments.
Walter Davis (6 February 2013) CSS3 Corners
Apply this action to any HTML box (DIV or TD) and enter a positive number in the Corner Radius field to get perfect transparent rounded corners on that box. No additional images are needed, and borders curve around to fit as well.
263 downloads, 3 comments.
Walter Davis (5 March 2013) CSS3 Shadow
Add a drop shadow to any HTML element on the page without any images or extra work. Select a color for your shadow, a degree of blur, and the X and Y offsets, and everything else is done for you. This works in Safari, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, and IE 9 or better.
163 downloads, 1 comment.
Walter Davis (17 March 2013) CSS3 Shadow Extra
This action is an update to Walter’s CSS3 Shadow action that enables you to add a drop shadow or inset shadow to any html element on a page. It also adds the spread function which controls the width of the spread of the blur. This is the easy way to add a shadow to html elements without using any images.
155 downloads, 1 comment.
Walter Davis (11 May 2010) CSS3 Text Shadow
Apply this Action to an HTML box to add a CSS3 text shadow to all text within it.
59 downloads, 3 comments.
Walter Davis (29 November 2012) CSS3-Hyphenate
Use real hyphenation in HTML text on your Freeway pages. This relies on browser support for this feature, and gracefully degrades to looking the way HTML text has always looked in browsers that do not support this feature.
32 downloads, 0 comments.
Walter Davis (8 December 2013) DT
Make a proper Description List (DL) in Freeway.
26 downloads, 2 comments.
Walter Davis (1 May 2014) EmptyBoxHelper
Add this Action to an empty HTML box on your page to get rid of the annoying 1px font size (and missing Overflow setting) that Freeway foists on empty boxes.
56 downloads, 1 comment.
Walter Davis (2 January 2013) ESS-Convert to Style Sheet
Convert any page in your site into a CSS stylesheet. Add new styles either by creating styled text on that page, or by manually entering them through the Actions interface.
88 downloads, 0 comments.