Book Review: jQuery In Action
August 05, 2008
jQuery in Action is published by Manning and is available in print or as an e-book. Read more »
jQuery - Getting Started
June 26, 2008
I recently did a presentation on jQuery for the Devon ColdFusion User Group. If anyone is interested I have put the slides on the Devon CFUG web site. Download the sample files Note: to view the presentation in full screen, click the arrow in the top right hand corner. Read more »
Use jQuery to make external links open in a new window
June 11, 2008
I was just reading the comments of Raymond Camdens post about the best way to trim text and saw that someone was asking how to add target="_blank" to all external links. Now this can be done in ColdFusion using the CFMatch tag (a great addi… Read more »
IE8, CF8 Ajax and jQuery
May 23, 2008
I noticed a post on Dale Fraser's blog about IE8 breaking the DHTML/AJAX built-in features of Coldfusion 8. I decided a while back to stick with doing AJAX calls and DHTML using jQuery instead of using the new tags in CF8 - and I'm glad I did as my code still works in IE8. Read more »
Expanding menus with jQuery
May 13, 2008
I was recently asked by a client to do a menu which would expand to show pages when the visitor moved their mouse over the menu heading to show sub pages of that section. Their second requirement was that the menu would stay expanded if the visitor c… Read more »
JSON, jQuery and ColdFusion
April 14, 2008
In the past I have used the excellent CFJSON to generate my JSON to use with jQuery. Having upgraded to ColdFusion 8 I figured it was about time that I used the in-built capabilities of ColdFusion to generate the JSON I call from my webservice cfcs.… Read more »
Sorting table rows with jQuery and ColdFusion
February 27, 2008
I posted a drag and drop example of sorting and saving a list using the jQuery sortables plugin. I was asked how this could be done with table rows. The jQuery TableDnD plugin comes to the rescue! It doesn’t have serialize method so you need t… Read more »
Sortable list with jQuery and Coldfusion
February 21, 2008
jQuery has a really nice plugin called “sortable” that lets you reorder a list using drag and drop. It’s really easy to get it up and running. In your display page you would have: <cfoutput> <ul id="sortable"… Read more »
Want table sorting? - check out JQuery UI
February 20, 2008
I’ve noticed a few people reading my post about table sorting and paging with jQuery. If that’s what you’re interested in and don’t want to write any code then I suggest you take a look at jQuery UI, which includes the tableso… Read more »
Styling alphabetical lists (ol type="a") using selectors
February 17, 2008
I was recently asked how to apply a style to an alphabetical ordered list, you can do this by using CSS selectors which are supported in IE7 and Firefox 2. Normally you would be able to add the class directly to the <ol>, but in this case, they… Read more »