Archive for category Markup

Filling a select drop-down with ajax data using jQuery

In user interfaces, it’s sometimes the case, that you need to have dropdowns with content dynamically loaded from a database, and sure you can query the database and place the content in the HTML-source as regular markup, but you can also write a few lines of jQuery powered javascript, and provide the data from an [...]

Browser handling of broken includes in an Ajax world?

In this mordern web 2.0 age, javascript includes are used more and more – and in some cases solutions often depend on included content from 3rd parties. While it is nice these 3rd parties may provide us with data (such as the latest tweets from twitter), it would be quite nice, if issues on their [...]

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Building image tags with jquery

Like tables, jQuery also allows you to play around with all other tags. In a recent project, we wanted to change a fixed set of labels/texts into icons instead. For this challenge jQuery was used to build the new image tag, and for good measure, here is a small example of how you can build [...]

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jQuery and tables

I’ve been playing with jQuery the recent weeks, and while it is reasonable simple to get started with and the jQuery documentation is pretty good, I thought I’d share a few snippets of jquery examples/code, which showcases a few simple practical uses for jquery.
First up – tables and jquery.
With jQuery you can add content to [...]

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Simple slideshow updated

Quite awhile ago I posted a little piece of javascript, which could be used to a (very) simple webpage slide show. Someone requested a version a little more advanced for use in a kiosk mode, and sure why not – updating the script with the option to set different times on the webpages displayed was [...]

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Cookie limits in browsers

How many cookies do you neeed and how many does the browsers support? – It seem to come up all to often, so after a bit of digging in search engines, here are (for my own convenience) the findings of what the limits are on cookies in the currently used browsers.
The cookie standard (RFC2965) specifies [...]

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