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I’ve had a good solid day of coding, probably my first in quite a while. Whilst I was playing round some JQuery I came across a quirk I’ve never noticed before. I call it a quick because it’s certainly not behaviour I’d expect.
When working with some HTML form elements I used the JQuery method val() to set the value of a select box. So as an example here’s a select box and the JQuery to set it.
<select name="DavesSelectBox" id="DavesSelectBox">
<option value="0">Zero</option>
<option value="1">One</option>
</select<
$(DavesSelectBox).val(1);
Now the problem arises when the form is submitted using a normal submit button and post method. I noticed whilst it visually seemed the select box was being set to the value, the posted value didn’t reflect this and posted the original value.
So after some looking around it turns out that if the element has the same name and id then .val() can sometimes be a little problematic. So the quick fix to change the name and id to different values. Strange!
Tags: form, jQuery, quirk, val()
Posted in Quick Tips, Web Design, Web Development |
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August 16th, 2010
I nearly forgot about linking to this, my first article for a while.
For those who may have noticed I’ve been doing a few Google Analytics articles for Six Revisions and the latest published a few weeks ago looks at the basics of tracking searches on your site and what you can start to glean from the information available in Google Analytics. Click on the image to go and read the article.
Posted in General Stuff, Web Design, Web Development |
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July 15th, 2010
For those unaware I am no longer working full time in web development and instead I’m flying planes around Europe for easyJet. That does not however mean I’m not doing web stuff anymore, I am! I’m pleased to still be involved at Armitage Online and they recently launched two sites that I’d been working on. The first is Leonardsfield House, a website for a Keswick guest house which is based on the nifty little CMS Perch, which is brilliant for straight forward no nonsense CMS needs.
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Posted in General Stuff, KamikazeMusic.com |
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July 5th, 2010
Well I’ve not posted on here for a while but it doesn’t mean I’m not busy. In fact it means I am very busy.
For those who don’t pop onto Smashing Magazine too often you may not have noticed but I wrote an article for them a while back which has just been published. It’s about using decision making models and applying them to web design scenarios, so why not go and check it out.
Decision-Making Models In Web Development
Tags: decision making, smashing magazine
Posted in General Stuff |
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May 9th, 2010
This was requested on the original CSS hover tabs post and as usual it has taken me ages to get around to doing it.
Anyway it is just the previous version realigned and also with an added tab to show you how easy it is to customise and add extra tabs.
You can view the demo here, it’s pretty straight forward and I won’t go into detail as it is all worked using the same principles as the original post so read that first and then take a look at the source of this one. It’ll do you good to do some thinking and look at what’s changed!
Tags: css tabs, CSS3, Javascript
Posted in General Stuff, Quick Tips, Web Design |
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March 25th, 2010
Lake Windermere, see it’s really nice up here. (image Flickr)
Well do you? Are you a great web designer or developer looking to work for an upcoming web agency? You get encouraged to use new web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 and get to work in an area with some great scenery to boot?
Do you want my job!? – quite literally. I’m leaving as a nice man with an orange airline has offered me a job flying his planes. However I’m still sad as Armitage has been a great place to work and Andrew is a brilliant boss.
So if you feel you’d like to work in the Lake District and spend your weekdays building great websites for some great clients and then have the weekends to freely explore the Lakes then head over and read the full job spec on the Armitage http://www.armitageonline.co.uk/about/jobs/ and retweet this and pass it on to anyone you think might be interested.
This doesn’t mean this site will go to rack and ruin, I’ll still be blogging and still doing some web stuff it just won’t be full time so expect the same little tips and tricks and musing from me.
Posted in General Stuff |
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March 17th, 2010
One of the nifty new features of HTML5 is the placeholder for forms which is added by putting in a placeholder value.
<input type="email" placeholder="example@kamikazemusic.com" />
So I can use this everywhere I’ve just written a quick bit of jQuery to replicate the placeholder functionality in browser that don’t support. It also uses Modernizr to check if the browser already supports the placeholder technique.
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Tags: HTML5, jQuery, Modernizr, placeholder
Posted in Quick Tips |
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March 17th, 2010
This weeks interviewee for the randomiser is the designer behind the great blog Web Designer Notebook, Inayaili De León.
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Tags: randomiser interview
Posted in General Stuff, KamikazeMusic.com |
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March 15th, 2010
There are some very interesting things going on recently in terms of how we put together our sites and it’s leading to quite a few interesting discussions, mostly between those who aren’t ready to even consider using new web technologies until IE offer support for them and those who have whole heartedly embraced the ideas of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation. Personally I fall into the latter category, using HTML5 to code up sites and using CSS3 all over the place.
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Tags: CSS3, design, development, HTML5, technology
Posted in Random thoughts and musings |
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March 15th, 2010
Head over to Six Revisions for my new guest article on Google Analytics Goals and Funnels, the start of a series of posts digging into some more advanced Google Analytics set-ups.
If you’re interested in Analytics you may also want to check out my new side project StatShare.
Tags: analytics, google analytics, guest post, six revisions
Posted in General Stuff |
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