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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...

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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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Category: Prototype

Easy chained select lists using Zend Framework and Prototype

Slider – part 2 – using a mouse wheel

Scriptaculous slider trick

Same height for elements