Learning jQuery 1.3 - Book review
As someone who has been using jQuery since the 1.0 release I thought I had a pretty good working knowledge of what jQuery can do - how wrong I was! I didn't think it would take me that long to read...
View ArticlejQuery Password Mask - DIY
I was reading Jakob Nielsen's post Stop Password Masking. I like the idea of letting the user decide if they want to be able to see their password or have it masked. The developer in me kicked in and I...
View ArticleUsing jQuery to filter a table
A quick post that demonstrates the power of jQuery to filter data.
View ArticlejQuery dropdown table row filter
Earlier today I posted a simple example of hiding table rows based on the cell content. Bernhard posted a comment about dynamically adding a filter by list to the column heading. Well, here's my...
View ArticleSorting with jQuery, saving with ColdFusion
Using jQuery with ColdFusion to reorder a list and save the new positions each time an item is moved.
View ArticleValidate CKEditor content length
I was adding CKEditor to a site and wanted to be able to validate that the user had entered some copy into the editor when the form was submitted.
View ArticleJSON Case Issue between CF8 and CF9
I wrote a quick demo for Devon CFUG this week to demonstrate using jQuery, AJAX and ColdFusion together to build a simple find as you type search feature. However it turns out that ColdFusion 8 and...
View ArticleDisable specific days in a Jquery UI datepicker
The jQuery UI datepicker allows you to define a range of dates that can be selected, but I wanted to disable specific dates as well.
View ArticleSorting Lists with JQuery UI, AJAX and ColdFusion
I was asked about an old post about sorting lists using jQuery and ColdFusion. jQuery UI has been released since I wrote that post so I've created an updated version with some additional functionality
View ArticlejQuery 1.5 broke my validation
jQuery 1.5 includes a complete overhaul of the AJAX module. However, it broke the validation jQuery plugin remote calls that ValidateThis uses.
View ArticleLoading mobile friendly images
CSS media queries let you change layouts for the screen size, however you'll want to have optimised images as well.
View ArticleUsing jQuery to auto add image captions
Use jQuery to extract the alt text from each image and use that as the caption.
View ArticlejQuery and the not selector
I needed to be able to hide and show the relevant parts of the form depending on what they select. With jQuery and the not selector this is really easy to achieve, so I thought I'd knock up a quick...
View ArticleAdding data to jQuery UI autocomplete
Dynamically adding data to jQuery UI autocomplete options.
View ArticlejQuery mouseover expanding menu
A few years back, I wrote a post about Expanding Menus with jQuery. I was asked a question about it recently so I thought this would be a good time to post an updated version.
View ArticleLoading slideshow images on demand
A lot of jQuery slideshow plugins load the images as the page renders. It would be better to use jQuery to append them.
View ArticleTrack downloads and exit links with Google Analytics
Here's some handy code I just wrote for tracking in Google analytics clicked links which go to external sites or link to files which are being downloaded.
View ArticleUsing jQuery validate plugin with CKEditor
Using the jQuery validate plugin to check that a CKEditor instance has content. The problem is that CKEditor replaces the HTML textarea tag with a WYSIWYG editor, the jQuery validate plugin validates...
View ArticleProof of concept for building websites mobile first
Proof of concept for building websites using a mobile first approach
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