Posts Tagged javascript
A Simple jQuery Print Page Plugin
Posted by Ian in javascript on February 26th, 2010
The other day I was after a really simple way to add a print page link to a page to, well, er, print it. So I came up with my jQuery Print Page plugin and stuck it on GitHub with a demo page: http://github.com/ianoxley/jqueryprintpage
This really is nothing fancy: it’s just a convenient way of adding an <a> tag plus an event-handler to a page to print it. Using it is as simple as, well, using File -> Print. But you can’t style the File menu with CSS so this is much more fun 
Lorem Ipsum Bookmarklet
I often use a couple of paragraphs of Lipsum when testing forms containing <textarea> tags and have had this bookmarklet I cobbled together sitting on my Bookmarks Toolbar for a while now.
Anyway, I thought it might be fun to hook it up to a HTML 5 form to let you customise how many paragraphs of Lipsum you want each time you click it. So that’s what I went and did:
Lorem Ipsum Bookmarklet Generator
Hopefully it’ll save you a few mouse clicks next time you’re testing some forms.
(Please note that the form used in the generator uses the <input type="range" /> HTML 5 tag which currently works best in the latest version of Opera. YMMV when using other browsers).
jQuery Form Focus Plugin Released
Posted by Ian in javascript on June 9th, 2008
I have released the first version of my jQuery Form Focus plugin. This lets you set the initial focus on any form element but is careful not to set the focus if the user has already started filling in the form. To use it you call something like:
$('#username').formFocus();
$('form input:first').formFocus();
$('form#options input[type="checkbox"]:first').formFocus();
Hope you find it useful.
OpenSearch Added to Unobtrusive JavaScript Google Co-op Search
Posted by Ian in javascript on February 5th, 2008
I have added OpenSearch to my Google Co-op Search Engine Unobtrusive JavaScript. Now you use the search engine in OpenSearch aware browsers you can add it to the browser’s search box.
Unobtrusive JavaScript
Posted by Ian in javascript on December 19th, 2007
I have been playing around with Google Co-op recently and have created Unobtrusive JavaScript: a custom search engine that focuses on unobtrusive JavaScript knowledge and tips from leading JavaScript experts. Please give it a try and let me know what you think.