Archive for the “JavaScript” category

Accessible tabs UI with jQuery Tools

by Mike Badgley on September 29, 2010

If you are not familiar with jQuery Tools, I’d suggest you familiarize yourself with them. A helpful clean and small toolkit that acts as a plugin to the popular jQuery library. jQuery Tools allows you to integrate a number of (…)

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Demo: Dynamic Cross-browser Horizontally Fluid Menu

by Mike Badgley on June 22, 2010

The following is a solution that I came up with create a fluid horizontal navigation structure that met the following requirements: The navigation needed to be completely dynamic and not dependent on an update to a CSS file if items (…)

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Stopping a YouTube video after closing the overlay it’s in with jQuery Tools

by Mike Badgley on July 16, 2009

Now there’s a long-winded title for you! Yes, I’m having problems (IE-specific) when closing an overlay that contains a YouTube video – the movie just keeps on playing in the “background”. My current setup was pretty simple – basically just (…)

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Quick tip when using the Overlay feature of jQuery Tools

by Mike Badgley on July 13, 2009

When using the overlay tool that is offered by jQuery Tools – an excellent JavaScript library that I highly recommend you add to your toolkit – you need to be aware that content that gets displayed within the overlay needs (…)

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Localhost bug with the ShareThis social bookmarking tool

by Mike Badgley on June 16, 2009

Yesterday afternoon, while adding a social bookmarking tool from ShareThis, we came across the following JavaScript error that just wouldn’t go away, even though we were using the same code snippet as is shown on the ShareThis example pages. SHARETHIS (…)

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