Carrying on the theme from yesterday with the jQuery & PHP username availability checker, i’ve got a quick tip to improve the user experience, so the user knows exactly where they are in the filling out complex forms. We could …
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I was reading Nettuts.com this week and saw the post by Matt Vickers on checking the availability of a username with Mootools. I tend not to use Mootools so i thought I’d replicate the technique using jQuery. The code degrades …
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I’ve never written a jQuery tooltip script before so i thought i’d give it a go and write my own. Its very much in the experimental stage but i thought i’d open it up to see what the community has …
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I’ve been working on a lot of JavaScript and PHP projects at work recently which is one of the reasons why I haven’t written a post for the last week. During my many projects i had the need to use …
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Continuing with a rather ‘Ajax’ theme after the last few tutorials on here i thought I’d go the full way and show you how to create a 140 character php and ajax comments tool. We’re using jQuery to perform the …
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The ability to drag and drop content on a page and have it save the order can make for a great user interface and is actually relatively easy to execute with a few lines of jQuery. You’ll need to include …
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This tutorial looks into creating a really simple tabbed interface using just plain HTML and CSS with the functionality and interface manipulated using jQuery. Tabbed interfaces are great for maximizing the amount of space you have on your site. Lets …
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I decided to add a title and description to the simple gallery tutorial i posted a few days back as an addition for those of you wanting to display further info about a picture in the gallery. The new code …
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The Farbtastic colour picker is really easy to implement. Its great if your building a customisable interface for an online product in the same way that you can manipulate the design of your Twitter profile. Farbtastic uses layered transparent PNGs …
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I recently had the need to build a dynamic form preview tool for work so clients could preview how the text and images would look before submitting the content to be published. I’ve trimmed down the code and removed the …
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Removing contents with Ajax is a useful tool to have in any web designers kit. Using a few lines of jQuery we can remove a div and simultaneously remove a record from the database with Ajax. In the download and …
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Recently I was asked to code a really simple photo gallery with jQuery, so I thought I’d post it for all to use. Its really simple and is the first time I’ve built a gallery with jQuery. It works by …
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Facebook connect has been one of those things that I’ve been tinkering with for a while now. I started by downloading the example Facebook connect application from Facebook. and gradually found my way around using it. Im using the same …
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I’ve been looking for a while at how to mimic the iPhone on / off switch with Jquery and stumbled across this post By Daniel LaBare over at elctech.com which is a great start to base an ajax tutorial on. …
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Here’s a simple tutorial on how to show/ hide a div using jQuery. First we include the Google jQuery library, the next steps simple. We now setup a click event listener which is triggered when a users click the and …
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A while ago i spent a long time looking into how Digg made their original spy script, which i can no longer find on their site. They do however have a flash spy which is pretty cool and can be …
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I had a problem a while back where i needed to put the contents of a div into another div, the reason for this was because i couldn’t access the source code of the page to modify the div contents, …
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Here’s a handy bit of code that I use quite regularly, its particularly useful if your getting a response message from a form to notify the user that there data was sent, or comunicate an error and you want to …
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