When I came across Drew Wilson’s flashy JQuery Autosuggest plugin I happily downloaded the code and started using it within a recent project, but as I used it more and more I kept hitting a bug – don’t know if its just the version of JQuery I was tied to using or whether everyone using […]
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Fix/Hack to make AutoSuggest JQuery Plugin work
Posted in Javascript, Web Technology Also tagged autosuggest, client-side, hacks, ui
Unable to drop JQuery sortable onto empty list? Hack solution
The problem: You have a multi column (or area) JQuery UI Sortable (these are neat) which only needs to show a “drop zone” when the user has started to drag a sortable object. The JQuery documentation for this doesn’t account for the reality of the above, its all very well if you want the empty […]
Posted in Javascript, Snippets, Web Development Also tagged Sortable
Firefox, why you mutate my css?
Quick post to remove the annoyance that is this bug from my short term memory, you would think this would work: …it does, but not in firefox. Say the background property was set to “url(someimage.png) top left no-repeat”, making the background-image property “url(someimage.png)” right? In every browser except firefox, yes, not for firefox. Firefox would […]
Posted in Browser Compatibility, Javascript, Web Development Also tagged firefox
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