While there’s nothing to stop you from using multiple frameworks simultaneously, compatability problems can pop up — particularly between jQuery and Prototype. Luckily, there’s a simple solution called noConflict mode. […]
I’m all about efficiency when I’m writing web code, and navigation is often one of those areas where I try to improve my efficiency. Here are some ways to automatically style your “active” navigation elements using some streamlined JavaScript and/or jQuery. […]
There are lots of reasons you might want to offer your users more than one CSS file for your website. But whatever the reason, it’s amazingly easy to create a function that swaps between multiple stylesheets using a few lines of jQuery. […]
Last week’s article covered how to build a tabbed box interface, starting with Photoshop, and moving through XHTML and CSS to our basic jQuery functionality. If you missed it, I would highly recommend starting your reading there. This article will show you how to use jQuery to make your tabbed interface more attractive and interactive. […]
The longer a site has been around, the more content it tends to accumulate. As website operators, we walk a fine line: too much content on every page and your site will look cluttered. Too little, and users won’t be able to find all your website has to offer. A tabbed box like this one is a nice bridge between the two extremes. […]
Feedburner is a fantastic service for managing RSS feeds and delivering useful statistics on those feeds. But sometimes Feedburner drops the ball when it returns my subscriber counts. So what’s my solution? When in doubt, turn to JavaScript. […]
A while back, I wrote an article demonstrating how the accordion effect could be replicated with nothing more than CSS. There was one caveat, however: the technique didn’t work in Internet Explorer 6 due to its limited support of :hover. Today I’m revisiting the CSS accordion technique and will make a modification or two that will let it work with IE6. […]
After I wrote and published my last article on writing a function to equalize heights in jQuery, I realized that the function would probably make a really useful jQuery plugin. This is that plugin. This plugin is slightly more sophisticated than the function I wrote earlier this week. […]
In this article, I will show you an easy way to create an easily scanable and aesthetically pleasing table that doesn’t require you to mess with your XHTML. In fact, you could easily apply this to tables already on your website! […]
Part 2 of our series is going to build on what we accomplished last week. Namely, we’re going to take the ad we built last week and animate it, as well as provide the user with a means to open and close the ad. […]
