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January 28, 2009

Simple pleasures with jQuery

Somethings it’s the simple things in life that make you really happy. For me yesterday, that was thanks to jQuery. Have you ever wanted to have a check box that, when the user checks it it also checks a lot of other checkboxes? Yeah, of course you have! I wanted to do that yesterday. Now, it’s not the first time...

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November 23, 2008

jQuery plug-in – highlight external links

I’m pretty new to the whole jQuery game, having really only started to look at in a number of weeks ago. Until then I have been happily using Prototype and Scriptaculous, and as I knew them I didn’t see a point to move to another library. However, the more examples I saw of jQuery the more elegant I thought it...

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August 13, 2007

Easy chained select lists using Zend Framework and Prototype

Building a set of select lists that are dependant of each other can be a daunting task, but for a simple two-level list – in that what you select from one drop-down will changing what’s displayed in one or more other drop-downs – is actually quite easy thanks to Zend Frameworks and Prototype, both of which support Json.

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June 15, 2007

Slider – part 2 – using a mouse wheel

Following on from the previous post, I thought it’d be nice to have the handle move on a mouse wheel. Looking around for mouse wheel integration, it seems that it’s only a short amount of code to update Prototype to use the mouse wheel. Why it’s not in the core code I don’t know, as it seems rather handy. The...

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June 14, 2007

Scriptaculous slider trick

Yesterday I was looking at the Scriptaculous library, in particular the slider bar. I had used it once before with some success, using a graphic for the track and gripper. But that’s was boring! What I wanted was to see the bar fill up with colour when it was slid. Something like this: I hadn’t seen anything like this around...

Experiments/javascript/Prototype Comments: 15

March 20, 2007

Nice image swapping

Here’s a nice, clean, and simply way to swap an image on a click of a link. You might use this if you have one large image a series of thumbnails, and when you click on the thumbnail you want to swap the large image. This javascript will do that and you don’t even need any additional libraries!

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February 9, 2007

Same height for elements

Surely this is easy, right? Just set the height property in your css. Well, yes and no. That’s all well and good if you know what height the elements are going to be, but quite often you might be pulling information out of a database in to the elements and you don’t know how big that information is going to...

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