Category Archives: jQuery
jQuery Max Character Counter Plugin
This little plugin was originally designed to limit the amount of characters that can be typed into the textarea element which does not support the maxlength attribute like an input element does. With HTML5 this is no longer required as … Continue reading
HTML5 jQuery Paint Plugin
Websanova Paint is a HTML5 canvas based jQuery plugin. It allows you to free paint on a canvas area with various shapes and colors including an eraser. It also features the fantastic Websanova Color Picker allowing you to set both … Continue reading
How to Write Your Own JSFiddle (In 15 Minutes or Less)
This weekend I decided to build my own version of JSFiddle, a small little web service that allows you to test and share HTML, CSS and JavaScript code. It’s actually quite simple to write and only requires a few lines … Continue reading
Loading jQuery From Google With Graceful Fallback
This is a little example of how to load jQuery from Googles CDN. I prefer to load it from there as it’s nicely minified and g-zipped as well there is a better chance a user would have already picked up … Continue reading
jQuery Humanized Message Plugin
This post is to introduce the newest Websanova jQuery Humanized Message Plugin. It’s a very sleek way to display a status message/feedback to the user rather than updating some little div on the page. This message pops up nice and … Continue reading
10 Awesome jQuery Tag Cloud Plugins
This is a collection of jQuery tag clouds (or word clouds if you like) plugins. They range from simple old fashioned clouds to more complex 3D rotating clouds with zoom built in. Notable ones include Awesome Cloud that looks great … Continue reading
HTML5 jQuery Scratch Pad Plugin
The Websanova Scratch Pad is a unique one of a kind plugin that allows you to add a scratching effect to images something similar to scratching a lottery ticket. It is written using canvas so you would need an HTML5 … Continue reading
jQuery Remove Class by Regular Expression
I recently came across a problem in an app I was working on of needing to remove a class name from an element that began with a particular string. The removeClass() method that comes with jQuery does not seem to … Continue reading
Duck Punching jQuery Ajax
I recently came across a very particular problem using jQuery’s ajax() function. I wanted to have a global handler that would intercept all “success” requests, check them for a return code and only continue processing if the code returned had … Continue reading
A Large Collection of Useful jQuery Utils
jQuery is a fantastic library but it needs to stay lean and small by providing only the most commonly need features. However there are many other little utilities that I have used frequently enough and found myself always rewriting them, … Continue reading
