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]

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]

Update: 30NOV08 @ 1815 PST - Due to a Security Change in Flash Player 10, the copy to clipboard functionality I am using below will not work if you have Flash 10 installed. I am trying to find a workaround, but it looks like it may require creating a button in flash that the user can click to set th... [More]

Earlier this week, Chris Blankenship released version one of a new jQuery FAQ plugin. I was pretty excited looking at his demo as I have a need for something like this in a project and his plugin should work nicely. I built a quick demo of my own to try it out and thought I would share with you what... [More]

Last week Dave Ward wrote a great post Use jQuery and quickSearch to interactively search any data. In his post he explained how to use the plugin and also a work around that is needed to make the plugin play nice with ASP.NET. I recommend taking a look at his post if your new to the quickSearch plu... [More]

I first wrote about selecting all of the checkboxes in an ASP.NET ListView almost three months ago now.  You may of noticed in my last post some cleaner code to achieve this that doesn't require adding arbitrary classes or id's for hooks. Since I didn't point it out, I thought I would share it ... [More]

Recently, I was asked to provide some totals and an average in the footer of a single table. I've done this in the past on the server side and it always turns into a pain for some reason. Its one of those things for me that I don't have to do to often and have to re-figure out each time :) Since my ... [More]

Since I switched to using client side sorting for my tables via the tablesorter.js plugin created by Christian Bach, the one thing I have missed from the server side method I was using before is the highlighting of the sorted columns. It took a while to figure out how to remedy this, but I think I f... [More]

Jeff King, Program Manager for Visual Studio Web Tools blogged VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files on Friday. The HotFix (VS2008 SP1 only) allows Visual Studio to find "-vsdoc.js" files that have commenting for IntelliSense in the same folder as a script file linked to fr... [More]