Crowdsourcing is all the rage these days, and even if you’re not managing a social media Web site, sometimes it’s helpful to accept content from end users. For example, one of my clients has a community calendar on its Web site. Since the inception of the calendar, staff time had been devoted to retyping e-mailed [...]
Archive of posts tagged XHTML
Dynamically Adding JavaScript To Your ASP.NET Master Page From A Child Page
A common challenge when working with ASP.NET master pages is how to dynamically add JavaScript that is relevant to a specific child page. In other words, maybe your site has 10 child pages that share one master page / template. One of them is, let’s say, a contact us / directions page, and on that [...]
Automatically Wiring Up XHTML Element Events On Page Load With jQuery
Many Web developers find themselves in an environment where the design of a Web page is handled by a graphic designer or junior programmer, either as part of their team or from a subcontractor or the client himself. Unfortunately, traditional HTML / XHTML requires most element events handlers — onmouseover, onclick, onfocus, etc. — to [...]
Parent – Child Select Lists Revisited: Multiple Parent – Child Select Lists Via PHP, MySQL And jQuery
A while ago, I promised to answer Brian’s request for a demonstration of how to make multiple parent / child select lists — in other words, starting from one drop down / select list, having two or more child lists, each of which, in turn, may act as a parent to another list. Multiple parent-child [...]
The Simplest Ways To Do Image Rollover Effects: JavaScript And CSS-Only
A common question on Yahoo! Answers is how to do image rollover effects simply. There are two ways to do so: With JavaScript, and via CSS alone. Of the two, I prefer the JavaScript method, as it doesn’t require marking up your code too much; but the CSS method is fine, too, and takes away [...]
Retaining Values In A Form Following PHP Postback And Clearing Form Values After Successful PHP Form Processing
Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers: Re-post data to PHP form when invalid? I was just wondering, if I have PHP validation on a field of a large form, say for example the e-mail isn’t an e-mail (I know how to check that) and it sets header location to ?error=1 it does all that fine, but [...]
