I found a cool trick in a post by Remy Sharp that appends the address of a hyperlink to the end of the link’s text when the page is printed. Unfortunately the trick only works in browsers that support the CSS2 pseudo selector :after. Firefox, Safari, Chrome*, Opera and now IE8 all support the select... [More]

So I knew it would happen at some point. Some handy flash developer would figure out how to get around the security limitation in Flash 10 that requires the System.setClipboard() method (ActionScript) to only be called by an action that originates from a user interaction. Last week I ran across an a... [More]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Cory S.N. LaViska’s new jQuery Alert Dialogs Plugin. Since then I have used it quite a bit and have been really happy with its ease of use and simplicity. At the end of the my first post about the plugin I said I would try and show you a way to setup an alert from... [More]

In a couple of previous posts I have used the pretty cool NicEdit WYSIWYG editor. Today I wanted to show you how you can use its JavaScript API to set the content of the editor’s body to the data of the item you want to edit. Please remember to be careful when accepting html content from users! Dem... [More]

Are you tired of going to DotNetKicks and finding the same stories on the front page for days in a row? Trust me, there is some great content out there that never makes the front page. You just have to look a little deeper. When you do, you can help put some of that great new content in front of the... [More]

Back in November I wrote a post Add Copy to Clipboard Command To contextMenu.js Plugin Demo that copied the data from the selected table rows to the user’s clipboard. This method worked great unless you had a version of Flash Player higher than 9 installed due to a Security Change in Flash Player 10... [More]

Cory S.N. LaViska (creator of one of my favorite jQuery Plugins – contextMenu.js) released version 1.0 of jQuery Alert Dialogs a few days ago. It looked interesting and worth some investigation. To test things out I decided to try and recreate the dialogs from one of my earlier posts ASP.NET Popup M... [More]

I'm guessing you might be familiar with Fax-to-Email services. How many of you have used the Email-to-Fax feature that often comes with these services though? Did you notice the difference?  This feature often comes along with the whole package, but I have a feeling you might of ignored it as... [More]

Since my posts about using the jQuery SimpleModal plugin as a confirmation dialog have been some of my most popular, I thought I would go ahead and update things now that Eric Martin has released version 1.2.1 of the plugin. As I wrote about on Friday, the biggest changes to the plugin seem to be th... [More]

Update 06DEC08 0920MST: Updated demo and download with version 1.2.1 of the SimpleModal plugin. Update 05DEC08 2100MST: Eric Martin just released version 1.2.1 with some bug fixes. I will update this demo tomorrow sometime with the changes. With the release of Eric Martin's version 1.2 of the Simple... [More]