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jQuery equal height columns

fbis — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:19:56 +0000

Sometimes equal height columns via css can be an absolute nightmare! If you’re using jQuery for other items on the page you can cheat with the following function : function setEqualHeight(items) { var highest = 0; items.each( function(){ current = $(this).height(); if(current > highest){ highest = current; } }); items.height(highest); }; It just loops the [...]

A Guide to Tags and Tagging

fbis — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:48:51 +0000

Modern websites and blogs often provide a feature called a ‘Tag Cloud’. It contains a series of words that are common across the site and sized according to how many times they are used. Larger words are more common, smaller ones less so. When people initially start tagging they tend to use the wrong words [...]

Jayrock – Converting to string and back

fbis — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:34:06 +0000

I always seem to forget how to do this so I’m just leaving a note for myself To convert to string: Jayrock.Json.Conversion.JsonConvert.ExportToString([object]); To convert back again ([object])Jayrock.Json.Conversion.JsonConvert.Import(typeof([object]), result);

CMS Update – Preparing for BETA!

fbis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:37:25 +0000

It’s been a bit quite round here recently! Don’t be fooled! The CMS is more or less finished. Just refactoring and preparing bits and bobs. The actual core itself hasn’t really changed in 6 months and is independent from the CMS, it handles all the page, content and control creation with a single base class that you [...]

Working with vague dates (90′s, Sept 2000 etc.)

fbis — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:13:01 +0000

On a recent project I had to allow users to upload their memories. Memories are vague things and I had to enable users to upload and assign incomplete dates. They needed to be able to enter ‘The 90′s’ or ‘September 2000′ as well as complete dates ’1st Feb 2009′. I could have separated all components [...]

Automatic ellipsis via css!

fbis — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:40:31 +0000

I consider myself pretty good with css. Doesn’t take me long to convert a photoshop design into working html so I was surprised to find today that there was an easy way to ellipsis to truncated text! Works in all browsers bar FireFox! overflow:hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;

IE7/8 and hover on empty elements

fbis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:35:40 +0000

I had an annoying problem with IE8 today. In the CMS, toolbars appear when you hover over a content block or the page content. All I’ve done is user div:hover. IE though does not recognise the object if its background is set to transparent and is empty. If you set a background colour then it [...]

Get Rendered Html From a Control

fbis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:32:53 +0000

Whilst working on the CMS I needed to be able to pass back the html a control will render when the user first adds it. The control doesn’t exist on the page yet as the sections are added via javascript. It was very easy to pass in StringWriter to the render function to get the [...]

Javascript dictionary & getIds

fbis — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:14:57 +0000

Coming from a .net background I must admit to missing many of the features that the framework provides like Hastables, Dictionaries and Lists. I've just come up with a really simple dictionary class that I use to hold results from my id parsing routine.

jQuery fbisCalendar

fbis — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:36:04 +0000

Here is my first freely available jQuery plug-in. There are a few more to follow soon including a form builder and a file explorer Overview I know there are a million calendar selectors out there but I needed one that covered historical dates (1800-2100). It displays either as a in place calendar in the page [...]