Category Archives: Javascript

jQuery validation plugin: required select elements

Posted on 9 February, 2012 by Veronica Yuill

I’m just posting this as a reminder to myself, but it may help others! I found that when I added class=”required” to a select element in a form, it wasn’t actually treated as required by jQuery. After some fiddling about, … Continue reading →

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Who knew Javascript could be fun?

Posted on 2 February, 2009 by Veronica Yuill

It gave me migraines till I discovered jQuery. Now I can validate a form with some simple CSS and a couple of lines of jQuery code. And today I had a rather odd requirement to toggle the colour of cells … Continue reading →

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Scriptaculous without Javascript

Posted on 15 May, 2007 by Veronica Yuill

Scriptaculous is one of the better-known Javascript/AJAX libraries, with useful built-in objects for adding Web 2.0 functionality to your pages. I’ve tinkered with it but hadn’t found a real-life application for it until I needed to allow a client to … Continue reading →

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Neat tricks with Oracle

Posted on 19 November, 2006 by Veronica Yuill

The task: provide a neat hierarchical tree as a web interface to a project management system where any project might have a variable number of sub-projects. A tree structure in other words. So I ended up with this: ID Project … Continue reading →

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