Tag: jQuery

A while ago I wrote a post on how to use the Prototype js library to make elements on your page have the same height. For those too lazy to read that post, it can be summarised something like this:

On creating a rather large form recently, I was in the need to have some kind of hint to the user about what format the content should take on several input boxes. I could have done this with a description under the form element, but a more accepted way to do this, it seems, is to have a ‘hint’ in...

A little while ago I posted a quick jQuery plug-in that allows you to easily indicate an external link. Then I posted an updated version that had a few optimizations. Well, it turns out that I had missed out a rather important portion of the code when I posted it up. D’oh! So here’s the full and working version.

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...