Show/Hide areas are common place now all over the web and are an easy way to display large amounts of information that may/may not be useful to all readers. The [+] and [-] images are the key, and changing these must be seamless..
Enter jQuery.
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Tag Archives: Javascript
Display filesizes
Ever clicked a link only to find out that the image/download was massive and you wished you hadn’t? Wouldn’t it have been nice to have an idea of the file-size when hovering over the link?
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Catching a keyPress..
…like ‘Enter’ for instance.
Print a Page, or Print a Section
This is another functionality that I have been looking or for a while. I haven’t tried it yet, but intend to add this to my default toolbox! I am sticking it here for now – and will update this when I have used it.
Cross-browser bookmark link
‘Bookmark Me’ is a sort of IE thing and doesn’t usually work in FireFox, Safari, Chrome, etc.. so as a FireFox user I’ve never bothered with a bookmark links before.
FireFox users know that Ctrl+D is the shortcut for these browsers, and that most ‘Bookmark Me’ links just aren’t work clicking – as they won’t work.
And then I found this…
CSS fixes for IE, using Javascript
Some CSS effects don’t work in IE, damn them, so that leaves 2 options.
Either forget that you have coded some nice roll-over effects that the majority of people wont see…
Or, add an IE-specific javascript fix.
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Search, with no click
How do you style a search button? They all look crap to me, and the default browser ones are all different. So, my solution is to get rid of it. Gone. No button. Heres how…
Open/Close, Show/Hide DIV’s
This is used more and more to display more info, hidden fields, etc…
It could easily be improved with multiple divs stacked in the same place…
Hmmm…, now I am getting ideas.
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