I contributed a Getting Started Guide to the open source jQuery Code Snippets project earlier today. Honestly, it doesn’t take much to install the bits and reap the benefits of the snippet collection, but I ran into a minor snag (as did another commenter) and I figured that documentation couldn’t hurt. Of course, the jury [...]
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The jQuery Treeview Plugin is a lightweight and flexible transformation of an unordered list into an expandable and collapsible tree. It supports both location and cookie based persistence and it’s completely skinnable through CSS. I’ve been using the plugin for a while now. Though the author, Jörn Zaefferer, states it has some shortcoming and it [...]
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I was thrilled to find Cory LaViska’s jQuery Context Menu Plugin a few months ago. In very little time, I was able to integrate the context menu with the jQuery Treeview. I quickly had a really pretty user interface which took full advantage of limited real estate. And guess what. As promised, the plugin worked [...]
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The jQuery Treeview Plugin provides collapse all, expand all and toggle all support with very little effort on your part. Simply add a treecontrol with three links, and the treeview, to your page… <div id="treecontrol"> <a title="Collapse the entire tree below" href="#"><img src="../images/minus.gif" /> Collapse All</a> <a title="Expand the entire tree below" href="#"><img src="../images/plus.gif" /> [...]
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jTemplates is a jQuery plugin and template engine for Javascript. If you keep up with Dave Ward and/or Rick Strahl you may already be familiar with jTemplates as they have both highlighted the plugin on their respective bolgs. About 1.5 months ago, however, I got into the action and started using jTemplates in conjunction with [...]
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As javascript libraries, particularly jQuery, increase in popularity so do web techniques using AJAX and JSON. Have you ever seen this code? It is front and back of an ASPX file with the single responsibility to return JSON data per an AJAX request. GetDataPage.aspx <%@ Page Language=”C#” AutoEventWireup=”true” CodeFile=”GetDataPage.aspx.cs” Inherits=”GetDataPage” %> <%– This minimal code [...]
FlexBox is a jQuery plugin that is intended to be a very flexible replacement for HTML textboxes and dropdowns using AJAX to retrieve and bind JSON data. Okay. Now what is FlexBox exactly? It is a dynamic control which can present itself as a combobox with per-result HTML templates, a suggest box (like Google search) [...]
I read a bit of “jQuery in Action” a couple of weeks back. Actually all I read was the appendix which is aptly titled “JavaScript that you need to know but might not!” This short chapter very concisely covers JavaScript concepts which should be required learning for all web developers. If you are an experienced [...]