javascript
Handling resizing in Adobe Air with HTML
If you develop a widget with Adobe AIR using HTML and Javascript, you may want to resize some elements of the HTML page depending on the size of the widget, thus having to resize them when the user decides to resize the widget. However, there’s a little trick on using the RESIZE event of the [...]
Limiting the suggestions on jQueryUI Autocomplete widget
If you ever used autocomplete.ui plugin from jQuery UI and have an array with lots of suggestions you’ll see that the solutions provided by the plugin are not always satisfactory. You can add a scrollbar to the suggestions box by using a CSS hack, but even with that, you’ll have to render a big HTML [...]
jQuery Bars plugin
I was developing an application recently that needed some king of horizontal bars to be drawn on a web page. I found the jQuery Progressbar plugin and found it it was something similar to what I wanted to achieve, so I took some spare time and modified it to convert it in a plugin I [...]
Execute javascript code every time a form is loaded via Ajax.BeginForm
If you’ve ever used the Ajax.BeginForm code to render a form in ASP MVC using Ajax (via jQuery, for example), you may have wondered there’s an object you can pass to the call called AjaxOptions. This object allows you to pass the BeginForm call some interesting options to further enhance the form when it’s rendered. [...]
Disabling UpdatePanels when an asynchronous postback in progress
If you’ve ever worked with relatively large UpdatePanels maybe you’ll have had a problem: blocking the user some elements while the asynchronous postback is running. When working with local or LAN environments, the async responses might be fast, but over the internet, or on large calculations the async postback may take a while. During this [...]
Developing Javascript involved web applications with Firebug
If you’ve been assigned to a new web application project lately, you’ll probably have had to deal with this [not] new AJAX technology. To be honest, AJAX is good, and websites like Google Mail and Flickr are good examples of that. But remember something: it’s always bad to abuse of something. It’s always bad to [...]