Tag Archives: Javascript

regular Javascript v. AJAX for dynamic content insertion

Published: 27 February 2008
Recently for work, I’ve had cause to write functionality so that a certain chunk of a form can be inserted again, over and over, by the user. The form involves data about course equivalencies between schools, and the user might need to submit data for multiple courses a student has taken. Hence, the [...]
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using Javascript and CSS to mark outgoing links

Published: 26 September 2007
It may be useful to your visitors to know which links will take them off of your site without having to hover over all of them. It might also be a nice touch to mark links pointing to PDF documents, for example, with a little Adobe PDF logo. With the help of Javascript [...]
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using AJAX to implement a live search

Published: 14 May 2007
I recently implemented a live search on the quotes page, so I figured I'd give a tutorial on how I did it. A "live" search is like a regular search feature, but if the user has Javascript enabled, the search will run as they type, instead of waiting for them to hit the 'Submit' [...]
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using AJAX to spiff up a gallery

Published: 3 May 2007
Lightbox is nice and all, but sometimes I find it clunky, particularly in Firefox when I have a lot of other tabs open. However, I don't want to go the route of having an image load by itself in the browser, because it would be so much nicer to have it integrated into my [...]
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