HTML5’s <dialog> tag
You may well be wondering why I have posted an article about an HTML element in the Javascript category. Simple:…
Javascript’s addEventListener() method
The previous Javascript posts have all been really simple — it is time to try something slightly more advanced. In…
Javascript’s onclick() event
In the Hello World! Javascript primer our Javascript ran as soon as the script loaded in the browser. Javascript is…
Javascript “Hello World!”
Here is a basic “Hello World!” exercise in Javascript. Online code editors like JSFiddle and Codepen truly come into their…
jQuery jGrowl plugin
Most software these days offer some kind of on-screen notifications and modern websites are no exception. jGrowl is a jQuery…
jQuery blockUI.js Plugin
This is a very cool jQuery plug-in that I implemented on a project that had a bit of AJAX going…
Copying to the clipboard using JavaScript
I found this Youtube video demonstrating how you can copy text to the clipboard using JavaScript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-vBx7F0lns. I created the…
HTML5 <datalist> jQuery validation
I decided to use the HTML5 <input><datalist> on a View in my CakePHP project, and was super surprised to see…
Mutually exclusive checkboxes
Sometimes it’s just not worth arguing. Here is a super-quick & nasty solution to a request for checkboxes that are…
Submit a form with a radio button using Javascript
A boss (bless his little cotton socks) once wanted me to implement some code that submitted a form when the…