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Created by James on May 03, 2012 14:54:46
Last update: May 03, 2012 14:54:46
History.js gracefully supports the HTML5 History/State APIs (pushState, replaceState, onPopState) in all browsers. For HTML4 browsers it will revert back to using the old onhashchange functionality. All major browsers are supported.
This is a simple test page to get started:
<html>
<head>
<title>Test History</title>
...
Note: state url must be provided for IE to generate a unique hash. YOu can prefix the state url with '?' ('#' does not work).
Created by James on April 24, 2012 14:01:39
Last update: April 24, 2012 14:01:39
This is the Mathias Bynens placeholder plugin with several bug fixes of my own.
/*! http://mths.be/placeholder v2.0.7 by @mathias ...
Created by James on April 24, 2012 13:50:05
Last update: April 24, 2012 13:50:05
The this object can be changed when calling a JavaScript function with func.call(theObject) . This is an example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>jQu...
The JavaScript console logs:
[Global log] this is: [object Window]
[log.cal...
Created by James on January 10, 2011 12:35:53
Last update: November 04, 2011 19:28:03
The events mouseover and mouseout are fired when the mouse enters/leaves the element where the event handlers are registered, and any nested elements which do not handle these events (because of event bubbling ). The events mouseenter and mouseleave are fired only when the mouse enters/leaves the specified element. Nested elements do not come into play. This following is a test page. You need Firebug to view the console output. Or use the JavaScript Executor bookmarklet. If none of these are available, an alert will popup (but you won't be able to fully test with alert.).
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>jQu... For the above test page, when you move the mouse through both the outer and inner areas of the mouseover/mouseout rectangle, the output is...
Created by James on May 01, 2011 21:40:35
Last update: May 01, 2011 21:47:18
It's a shame that double click events are always accompanied by click events in JavaScript. When you double click on an element, JavaScript fires two click events followed by one double click event. So if you attach both click and double click event handlers to the same element, both event handlers will be called when you double click. This is a utility function to alleviate the problem somewhat:
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <script ... Note that there's still a possibility that both clicks and double clicks fired at the same time. This is because the timer used above may not be identical to the double click timer configured at the OS level. It's impossible to fix this problem in application code since each user may...
Created by James on March 03, 2011 20:50:51
Last update: March 03, 2011 20:51:54
This function parses the querystring and returns the query parameters as a map. It calls the string replace function with a function replacement and uses the side effects of the replacement function call to populate the parameter map.
function getQueryParameters() {
var result ...
Created by James on September 06, 2010 03:09:35
Last update: January 11, 2011 21:24:36
With the following code, the body occupies the whole height (100%) of the browser window:
<html>
<head>
<title>100% body height</title...
However, when you add <!doctype html> to the top of the file, the browser renders the page in Full Standards Mode instead of Quirks Mode :
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>100%...
In Full Standards Mode , the body no longer occupies the whole browser height. Why? Because body 's parent is html and the browser does not know the height of html ! Adding a height to html fixes the problem:
html {
height: 100%;
}
Created by James on July 04, 2009 16:30:40
Last update: January 11, 2011 21:21:59
If you are looking for a solution for a progress bar, I direct you to the following resources: Bare Naked App provides a simple and elegant solution based on pure CSS with two images. You control the percentage of completion through the background-position attribute of the CSS. HTML:
<img src="/images/percentImage.png" alt="... CSS: img.percentImage { background: white url(/imag... Images: (percentImage.png) (percentImage_back.png) WebAppers extended the above solution with JavaScript. They also added several colored images: JQuery UI has a built-in progress bar widget. However, if you want to get to understand some of the foobar needed to get CSS to work (in general) through this example, stay with me for the rest of this note. Initially I was thinking, a progress bar should be easy: just make...
Created by James on October 11, 2010 19:01:28
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:38:56
Test page (click the "new window" icon to see the transition):
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>jQu...
Created by James on September 07, 2010 03:11:39
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:28:33
I didn't know how hard it was to vertically align something to the middle until I had to do it. An excellent writeup about the various techniques (or should I say hacks?) to achieve this is here: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/vertical-centering-with-css/ Here I present a technique with the help of jQuery. To make it simple, what I'm doing is to display a single line of text in the middle of the page instead of at the top. The markup is made simple because the logic is moved to JavaScript. There are two requirements to make this work: The parent container uses relative positioning jQuery code added to re-position the content with absolute positioning
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <title>Vert... For some reason, the following code did not work although...
