Category Archives: JavaScript

Internet Explorer 8 and event.preventDefault() Problem

Posted on April 18, 2012 by daniel

I was trying to use event.preventDefault in a function called by an onclick method of an anchor tag. Although this worked fine in Firefox and chrome, naturally, I.E. would find it necessary to treat this differently. IE 8 sadly does … Continue reading →

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Using and Installing Greasemonkey Scripts

Posted on April 4, 2012 by daniel

As a programmer, I often have need to tweak or examine little bits of a page’s HTML. Although firebug is a great tool and incredibly flexible, sometime it just doesn’t quite fit the bill. When such cases arise, greasemonkey is … Continue reading →

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Jquery Validation Plugin with multiple forms

Posted on February 20, 2012 by daniel

I love using the Jquery Validation plugin on my html forms. It makes frontend validation very easy and painless. However, today I noticed a strange problem, when I was pressing the submit button on a form, it was requiring fields … Continue reading →

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Javascript Associative Array Empty?

Posted on February 16, 2012 by daniel

I was trying to form an associative array in javascript and made the mistake of trying to form it with the following code. When I dumped the variable I found it was empty. As to be expected, this is another … Continue reading →

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o3EnlargeBox 1.1.0 Released

Posted on September 13, 2011 by donaldvr

The newest version of o3EnlargeBox was just released. There are some nice new features such as instance methods that re-size and reposition the box when its content changes. Click here for more information about o3EnlargeBox.

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JQuery and Ajax Forms Plugin

Posted on September 9, 2011 by daniel

Writing JavaScript to handle ajax form submission can be a pain. Not only is it a lot of coding, but it often means you have to write forms using different html than you would use for a normal form. This … Continue reading →

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AjaxForm and Validation Plugins for Jquery

Posted on September 9, 2011 by daniel

Two of my favorite jQuery plugins are the AjaxForm and the Validation plugins. The AjaxForm plugin allows you to very easily convert a normal html form into an ajax form while the validation plugin offers easy javascript side validation of … Continue reading →

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Loading XML along with HTML for Your Javascripts to Use

Posted on August 19, 2011 by donaldvr

If you have JavaScripts that rely on certain xml data in order to operate, you might be tempted to use the document body’s (or JQuery’s) onload event handler to perform an ajax request to get the xml immediately after the … Continue reading →

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jQuery plugin: o3EnlargeBox – display images or other content in-page

Posted on July 28, 2011 by donaldvr

Version 1.1.1 requires: jQuery 1.4.x or later author: Donald Van Raalte copyright: 2011, Ozone Solutions, Inc. licensed under: MIT License released: September 27, 2011 (1.1.0 – September 12, 2011) Introduction This plugin allows you to display any DOM element on … Continue reading →

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jQuery .fadeIn + window.setInterval = A Bad Combination

Posted on July 7, 2011 by donaldvr

jQuery’s .fadeIn and .fadeOut methods don’t fire when the window is out of focus. Instead, they wait until the user returns to the window / tab and then fire. This fact caused me a problem when I was working on … Continue reading →

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