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New Version of jQuery UI Feedback plugin

fbloggs — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:06:26 +0000

The jQuery UI Feedback plugin I wrote lets you show an informational or error message next to a UI component on your page. Its primary intended use is for AJAX-driven applications, where you want to provide some…

How to access cross-domain data with AJAX using JSONP, jQuery and PHP

fbloggs — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:21:49 +0000

I’m guessing that if you are reading this post you have already encountered the problem of the same origin policy with regards to retrieving data with AJAX from urls in other domains than your’s (the requesting domain). This…

The jQuery UI CSS Framework – Part 2: How To Create Widget-style Boxes

fbloggs — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:05:21 +0000

This is the second post in a series on the jQuery UI CSS Framework. Here’s the first one.

Today I’ll show you how to create a nice looking box that has…

New Version of jQuery Feedback Plugin released

fbloggs — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:45:18 +0000

This is version 1.0.1. It corrects a bug where the ‘above’ and ‘below’ options did not work, and it also lets you place a message immediately above an element, with the left side of the message area aligned with the…

The jQuery UI CSS Framework – Part 1: Intro and How To Style a Button

fbloggs — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:39:43 +0000

This is the first in a series of articles on the jQuery UI CSS Framework.. This is a powerful suite of CSS selectors that you can use to build web applications with a consistent UI. The main

How to correct font size problem with tables in jQuery UI widgets

fbloggs — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:11:27 +0000

I just recently used jQuery UI tabs in an application. Within a couple of the tabs I used tables for content (let’s not have a religious debate about using tables for layout, please). Anyway, the font size came out much…

Feedback jQuery Plugin

fbloggs — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:18:15 +0000

Feedback is a jQuery plugin that lets you send feedback to a user in the form of an info message or error message, associated with any page element. It uses the jQuery UI plugin to determine the default styles of…

How To Check or Uncheck all checkboxes in jQuery

fbloggs — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:25:12 +0000

This post explains how to set a group of checkboxes to checked or unchecked using jQuery 1.3, by clicking an “All” or “None” button.

First, let’s select our group of checkboxes. I’ve seen some fairly complicated jQuery selectors for finding…

How to Style the Trigger Button Image of a jQuery Datehandler

fbloggs — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:30:08 +0000

Using ui-datepicker-trigger CSS selector to style the trigger image on a jQuery datepicker object.

How to scale the jQuery UI font size for just the UI widgets

fbloggs — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:24:29 +0000

This post applies to jQuery UI 1.6rc6 (the preview for jQuery 1.3+), but it probably also works with earlier versions.

If you use themeroller, or simply download the jQuery UI standard code package from the…