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Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

See the updated version. I needed a date/time picker and spend a couple of hours making a simple one: $('#datetime').flexdate() Obviously, I didn't spend a couple of hours putting this together. I wrote it quickly, then spend the hours getting it to work even remotely correctly in Internet Explorer.
2009 06 29 Danny Web Design Comments (2)

Copying jQuery UI styles and Detecting CSS Loading

So let's say I want to create elements that match a jQuery UI theme (in my case, I was using a <canvas> element and wanted to copy colors). I could try to parse the CSS file directly, but that runs afoul of the same-origin security problem (I use Google's CDN to get the jQuery UI [...]
2009 06 24 Danny jQuery Comments (2)

Improving jQuery UI widget getters/setters

Right now UI widgets need to explicitly declare "getter" functions (methods that return information about the widget rather than manipulate it) with $.ui.widget.getter = 'gettermethod1 gettermethod2'. The reason is that most jQuery plugins are chainable: $(selector).widget('method').css('color','blue') executes method on each element matched, then css('color','blue') on each element. Some plugins and some uses of plugins instead [...]
2009 04 23 Danny jQuery Comments (2)

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 [...]
2009 03 27 Danny Comments (0)

Roman Numerals in Javascript

I was looking at some code that included converting arabic to roman numerals, and it was all things like this:
2009 03 09 Danny Comments (0)