Copy Events from One Element to Another
Need to clone an element and its events? Sure, you could rebind the events after doing the clone, but that wouldn't be very DRY now, would it? Introducing Copy Events, a new plugin for jQuery.
DOM Modification
31
Jan
2007
17
Jan
2007
Effect Delay Trick
Here is a quick trick for getting an effect to delay without using setTimeout. Let's say, for example, that I want to show an alert message on the page every time a user clicks on a certain button. But I don't want it to stay there forever; I want it to go away a few […]
12
Dec
2006
Multiple Fancy Drop Caps
After I wrote a couple entries (Fancy Drop Cap, Part 1 and Part 2) on creating a drop cap for the first paragraph in a DIV, a couple people asked how one would go about making the drop cap apply to every paragraph in a DIV. Update I've written a Fancy Letter Plugin that does […]
19
Nov
2006
Really Simple Live Comment Preview
Introduction and Caveat I'm sure that some of you were expecting this entry to discuss traversing the DOM using jQuery methods. After all, I said I would do just that in my last entry. But a couple nights ago, I had the impulse to try a "live comment preview," so I'm going with it. My […]
02
Oct
2006
Fancy Drop Cap – Part 2
In Fancy Drop Cap - Part 1, I showed how I used jQuery to insert a drop cap on my personal weblog. But there is still some unfinished business to take care of: Accounting for cases in which the first paragraph (where I want my drop cap to go) starts with another tag of some […]
20
Sep
2006
Fancy Drop Cap – Part 1
Introduction Last spring when I implemented a new design for my weblog, I wanted to use a fancy drop cap for the first letter of the first paragraph of the first post of each page. There are all sorts of ways to make a drop cap happen, but since I was reading Jeremy Keith's excellent […]
Recommended Book
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By Karl Swedberg &
Jonathan Chaffer
