New Things! Head Control, Tags, jQuery UI, and Improved Search

Just a little note for ya’ll on some new things in CodePen!

Manage your <head>

There is a new area of the HTML settings where you can inject things into to the <head> of your pens. This means you can do things like add viewport meta tags, in case you’re working on some cross-device design or the like.

Better Search

We use Google Custom Search for the site. It’s hard to beat Google as far as quality search results. We’ve added some filters and extra smartness so that the search results are much more useful than they have been in the past. They emphasize the details view of pens, which contain the most information about the Pen as well as a live demo.

Better External JS

The External JS option in the JS settings now has autocomplete for popular JS libraries. Hopefully this makes it easier for you to experiment with a wide variety of JS libraries. The URL’s are hosted by the awesome CDNjs.com. Of course, you can always link directly to any URL you’d like.

jQuery UI

There are a few new options in the JS library dropdown in the JS settings as well. One of which is jQuery UI. If you choose this single option, you’ll get jQuery, jQuery UI, and the base stylesheet for jQuery UI all in one. Check out how easy it is to get jQuery UI tabs going.