20+ Useful Cheat Sheets Any Web Developer Must Print Out
Cheat sheets are very useful – they put together everything you need to know about a programming language, or a platform, or a tool, or anything, so that you can read it all in a glance. Be it a list of all the functions of Photoshop, or all the character codes in HTML, or even all the template tags in WordPress, cheat sheets can really help you reduce the time you spend developing. Instead of going through thick manuals to find that one piece of code, why not simply look it up in a cheat sheet?
So, here are 20+ useful cheat sheets for web developers that you really should print out and stick to your wall! [next time, we're doing a list of useful cheat sheets for web designers, so stay tuned!]
HTML
The following are cheat sheets concerning HTML. There are cheat sheets for character codes, HTML 5, HTML codes and what not.
1. HTML Cheat Sheet
2. HTML 5 Cheat Sheet
3. HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet
4. XHTML Cheat Sheet (PDF)
5. HTML Help Sheet. Panic Over.
CSS
Having a CSS cheat sheet handy is a great way to save time web developing.
6. CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
7. CSS Cheat Sheet (V2)
8. CSS Shorthand Cheat Sheet
9. CSS Shorthand Guide
10. Cascading Style Sheets (PDF)
JavaScript
The following are cheat sheets for JavaScript and things dealing with JavaScript (jQuery etc)
11. JavaScript Cheat Sheet
12. mootools 1.2 cheat sheet
13. jQuery Cheat Sheet
14. What’s Ajax (PDF)
15. JavaScript Reference Card (PDF)
16. The most common DOM methods at a glance (PDF)
17. AJAX on Rails (PDF)
18. jquery CheatSheet
19. jQuery Visual Map
20. Prototype Cheat Sheet (PDF)
PHP
The following two cheat sheets are about PHP. Really useful, aren’t they?
21. PHP Cheat Sheet
22. PHP Reference Sheet (PDF file)
You Got Any?
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