Category Archives: Coding

Frameworks. CSS and otherwise.

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Dan

Jeff Croft hosts a hornets’ nest of a debate over the use (or not) of frameworks in web development. It may pay to first read his previous post on this topic. And probably Jeff’s article on frameworks that he wrote … Continue reading →

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Phew!

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Dan

The last few weeks have been insane, but the fruit of that insanity is now up for all to see. Many hours battling XSL templates and wrestling with a particularly stubborn document management system have culminated in a new website … Continue reading →

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IE: How to properly destroy your ‘select’ elements with innerHTML!

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Dan

I know that some people, myself included, say that you’re not supposed to use innerHTML. And yet for expediency’s sake, I find myself using innerHTML. Problem I’ve got an AJAX request to a JSP page which in turn performs an … Continue reading →

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How I discovered ‘cloneNode’

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Dan

So I was trying to copy all the <option></option> elements from one <select></select> element to another. I had a drop-down list of countries, and I wanted users to be able to select more than one country, so had a ‘Add … Continue reading →

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More WordPress title modification

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Dan

Some time ago I wrote about re-working WordPress titles to make them easier to read, and more search engine-friendly. Since then I’ve done a bit more work on WordPress, and so I thought I’d share a few WordPress title modications … Continue reading →

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WordPress category names and SEO: fixing a typo

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Dan

The problem So you’ve made a typo in your WordPress category. It’s easy to log in to your WordPress administration site and correct the category name, right? Yep, but that’s only half the job done; Share

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JS vs. IE; round two.

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Dan

So I learned (the hard way) that IE doesn’t like it when you create JS variables with the same name as the id of an element in the code. Thanks, Stuart. Share

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Irksome: Internet Explorer vs. JavaScript

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Dan

So I’m coding a form and I want the user to be able to add more rows to it, if they wish. So when the user activates a control, I use JS to create some ‘input’ elements (including some radio … Continue reading →

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