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{ Monthly Archives } March 2009

Finding the Size of a Table

<table> elements are among the most frustrating to use if you are trying to style them with Javascript, because their sizes are so unpredictable and poorly controlled with CSS. I was trying to set the size of a table (a calendar, if you must know) by setting the size of each <td> and hoped the [...]

New Widgets: googleSearch and ajaxpopup

I made a jQuery UI widget (a subclass of textpopup) that hijaxes a Google search form to show the results in a popup box rather than on a new page. Google AJAX search returns only the top four results, so the popup box includes a link to the full search page. Download the code. Download [...]

Roman Numerals in Javascript

I was looking at some code that included converting arabic to roman numerals, and it was all things like this:

jQuery UI 1.7

Finally, jQuery UI 1.6 final is out, renamed 1.7, and it's on google ajax libraries, so it's minimized (45K for the whole thing; .27 sec to download for me, which is nothing, especially if you're loading at the end of your code so the user is busy reading the content of your site). The contributors [...]