Treehouse Badges Widget

index.html

<div class = "container">
  <h2>Recently Learned at Treehouse</h2>
  <div id = "badges"></div>
</div>

script.js

$(document).ready(function() {
  var user = "jamesbarnett"; /* treehouse username*/
  var num = 12; /* number of badges to display, starting w/ most recent */
  
  $.getJSON("http://teamtreehouse.com/" + user + ".json", function(data) {
    var output = "<ul>";
    /* array starts from 0, so you access the 10th element at position 9, add 1 to stop to account for the array starting from 0 */
    var i = data.badges.length - 1; 
    var stop = data.badges.length - (num + 1);
    for(i; i > stop; i--){
      output += '<li>';
      output += '<img src ="' + data.badges[i].icon_url + '" />';
      output += '<span class = "tooltip">' + data.badges[i].name  +  '</span>';
      output += "</li>";
    }
    output += "</ul>";
    document.getElementById("badges").innerHTML = output;
  });
  
});

style.css

li,ul,img {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.container {
  width: 600px;
  margin: 20px auto;
}

h2 { width: 500px; margin: 50px auto; }
#badges { width: 400px; margin: auto;}

/* number of badges per line, the formula is ((2x)n + (x + 1)) where x is badges per line, 3 per line that's 6n+4, math magic from http://cdpn.io/BovGu */

.container li:nth-child(6n + 4) {
  margin-left: 55px;
}

li {
  position: relative;
  list-style-type: none;
  display: inline-block;
  width: 100px;
  margin-right: 5px;
  margin-top: -25px;
}

img { width: 100px; }
img:hover {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 2;
  transform: scale(1.5);
}

/********** tooltips  **********/
/* CSS tooltips based on: http://www.red-team-design.com/css3-tooltips*/

li .tooltip { display: none; }
img:hover + .tooltip {
  display: inline-block;
  z-index: 3;
  position: absolute;
  
  top: 15px;
  left: -190px;
  width: 150px;
  min-height: 40px;
  
  padding: 3px;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: #ddd; 
  box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.4), 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5) inset;
  border-radius: 4px;
}

/****** little triangle on the tooltip *****/
.tooltip:before {
  content: "";
  z-index: 4;
  position: absolute;
  width: 0; 
	height: 0; 
  
  top: 11px;
  right: -10px;
  
	border-top: 11px solid transparent;
	border-bottom: 11px solid transparent;
	border-left: 11px solid #ddd;
}

Treehouse-Badges-Widget.markdown

Treehouse Badges Widget

Badges widget for badges earned on http://teamtreehouse.com

Inspired by http://cdpn.io/BovGu

A Pen by James Barnett on CodePen.

License.