Here’s an interesting code snippet I’ve found handy in past projects. Great for highlighting specific information within an application or web page. To start with lets have a brief explanation as to what we’re going to be doing. We have …
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I wrote a post a while back on coding an iPhone style switch using jQuery. I’ve now put together a simple tutorial demonstrating how simple it is to build a switch that triggers two radio buttons in a field set. …
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Due to popular demand here’s a re-written version of the tutorial I wrote over a year ago on how to show and hide content using jQuery. After I first published the post I’ve had a lot of requests as to …
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Here’s a very basic example of how to code up an animated progress bar with tooltip using the Tipsy tooltip plugin. First I started out in Photoshop and designed the basic progress bar, you can download the PSD file for …
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I’ve been hugely inspired recently by the design work of Orman Clark from Premiumpixels.com and his generous selection of top quality PSD downloads. after seeing this beautiful design of a button and slider set I was eager to code up …
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With the rise of Facebook and Twitter we’re so used to instantly updating data and being able to judge fresh content almost instantly. Facebook for instance automatically updates how long ago someone left a comment on the fly without even …
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Here’s a clever little script that’s certainly useful if you want to give users the functionality to refine search results or filter product results. If you had a list of films with long titles this would be a quick and …
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I was browsing forrst.com and saw a pretty interesting code snippet from Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks which is pretty useful for WordPress users and allows the gravatar of a commenter to be dynamically pulled into the comment box as soon …
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Jay Salvat just posted a brilliant plugin that automatically detects faces in a picture. You can download the code from Git Hub or check out the demo here The plugin is fairly easy to integrate into a social application, all …
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I remember when fullscreen flash sites we’re all the rage in the mid 90′s with flamboyant splash pages enticing you in. A large number of these sites had an eye catching image that would full your browser regardless of the …
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Delving into the inner workings of jQuery and plucking up the courage to build a jQuery plugin can be a daunting task. In this tutorial I’m going to run through the basics of creating a tooltip plugin. We’re going to …
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Whilst browsing my feeds I found an interesting post by Cody over at Codrops on how to add a twitter tooltip popup on any paragraph of text. You can find the main plugin here: jQuery Twitter Search Plugin or view …
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You may find a need to allow the user to dynamically add or remove text inputs from your application. This is relatively easy to do using jQuery and using arrays to submit the form data to a PHP page. This …
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I thought I’d share a little technique that I occasionally use when coding forms with a limited amount of space. It’s a simple effect that allows you to contain the form input or textarea title within the form allowing the …
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Regular readers of Papermashup will have seen the post that I wrote last week on Easy Poll, the personal project that I launched a few weeks back that allows you to create a simple 2 answer poll that you can …
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I was scouring the internet for inspiration the other day and revisiting some interesting sites and noticed that MailChimp had changed their homepage integrating a slick full page slider. After a little investigation I noticed that they were using the …
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Over a year ago I wrote an article on scrolling a page using Prototype, just to update things here I’m going to run through scrolling a page using jQuery and the animate() function. Automated page scrolling is useful in many …
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I was sat in the sun at the weekend and sporadically decided to do a little project like wedeliver you can read about the adventure I had building the 24hr project here. This project on the other hand probably took …
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I was recently in a situation where I needed to count a number of list items and pass the values to a form, I got around this problem by using JavaScript arrays, looping through the list items and picking up …
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It’s so easy to go on the hunt for a plugin for a project and end up with multiple plugins all doing different things maintained and managed by separate developers, but wait there’s a common solution to this problem with …
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