Posts Tagged "jQuery"

Review of “Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery” Book Set

As a programmer always thirsty to learn new tech, I also love to get a refresher and learn something new in the process. That is why a couple of times a month I go to the local bookstore (Chapters here in Canada) and browse many of the new books in stock. Over the last few years especially, the computer book section has gotten a bit sparse. It makes sense, many ...

The Anatomy of Sliders and Scrollers

Everywhere you go on the web you see some sort of slider or scrolling widget on the page. You see a lot of them on blogs advertising the latest posts, you see them on event pages showing shots of the audience and speakers and you even see them on software company homepages showing screenshots of the their latest software release. Sure you can get a ton of different ones from ...

Creating a Custom YouTube “Sparkbar”

I received a question about this a little while ago and I finally got around to making a blog post about it. The person was asking about making a custom YouTube percentage bar like the one you see on videos right above the thumbs up and thumbs down icons. Intrigued I looked at the code and boiled it down to something that perhaps you all could use for a project... ...

Context Menus With jQuery

I was tinkering around with some jQuery and created a little bit of code that I thought I would throw out into the Internet ether. I am sure it not the most efficiently optimized, but it does demonstrate some things can do with a little jQuery and the contextmenu event. I see this example as something you could easily build off of and with a little styling and a little ...

Populating Multiple Drop-downs Dynamically

First off I want to say that there are multiple ways of doing something like this. Below is two ways (and I mention a third) to dynamically populate one drop down using the selection of another drop down (aka chaining drop-downs). One way we will see uses a pure JavaScript implementation and another is using a combination of JavaScript and a server-side language (here we are demonstrating PHP). After we ...