Learning jQuery

In this short post, you will find how you to parse the JSON string using jQuery. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an data exchange format and which is human-readable data. jQuery provides a metohd called “parseJSON” which takes a well-formed JSON string and returns the resulting JavaScript object. You should also take a look at […]

Today I found another reason to hate IE. I ran into an issue where Select DropDown with Fixed width cuts off the options text (if it is wider than the assigned width) only in IE (Internet Explorer). In this post, I will show you the fix for this problem using JavaScript and jQuery both. Problem […]

In this post, I will show you how you can easily move items from one listbox to another listbox using jQuery. The beauty of this code is that you can also move multiple items together. As you can see from above image that there should be 2 button to move items from one list to […]

One of the advantage of jQuery document.ready() is that it doesn’t wait for complete page loading, it starts executing as soon as DOM is loaded. “DOM loading” and “Page Loading” are 2 different terms and don’t get confused between these. There is a fundamental difference between these two terms. “DOM loading” means all the DOM […]

Do you know that jQuery provides various methods to remove elements from DOM? These methods are .empty(), .remove() and .detach(). And in this post, I will show you how these methods (.empty vs .remove vs .detach) are different from each other. .empty(): This method removes all the child element of the matched element where remove() […]

In this post, I will show you how you can disable specific items of the DropDown/ComboBox/Select element using jQuery. To disable any item, just need to add attribute “disabled” with value “disabled” to the list item. //Code Starts $(document).ready(function() { $("#ddlList option[value='jquery']").attr("disabled","disabled"); });? //Code Ends See result below. You can also disable item by their […]