Tag: JavaScript

Finally got round to writing a small bit of code to automatically force anchor links to open in new windows if they are for different domains:
$(document).ready(function() {
var myDomain = ["www.ajgraham.com", "testing.ajgraham.com", "lifestream.ajgraham.com"]; //do NOT include the http:// pls!
$(“a[href^='http://']“).each(function() {
var slicedHref = $(this).attr(‘href’).slice(7);
var slashPosition = slicedHref.indexOf(“/”);
if (slashPosition != -1) {
slicedHref = [...]

I wrote a relatively simple and intuitive form validation script for a client, which they kindly allowed me to release into the open-source community.
Contents
The Objective
The Basics
Including The JavaScript
Explaining The Code
Core Functions
Expanded Functions
Options
HTML
Examples
Download
License
To-Do’s
Change-log
The Objective
The aim was to develop a simple JavaScript form validator plugin to be:

JQuery based
Fast and efficient
Automated (via CSS [...]

I wrote a very simple little piece of JavaScript that changes the colour, background colour and font colour of a checkbox depending on the Mouse Event (onclick, onmouseover and onmouseout) and whether the checkbox is ticked or not. It can also reset it back to its previous settings too.
XHTML:

<label for=”cb1″ [...]

I love the Google Maps API. Except when using it for UK based addresses. There is a big problem with any app created using the Google Maps API – UK postcodes will NOT be processed, worse still, they return errors.
To give some background on the issue, The Royal Mail own [...]