Posts Tagged ‘jQuery’

Finally, as requested, my code and slides for my Dallas TechFest 2010 presentation are available for download. If you missed it I presented on taking an existing ColdFusion application (could be anything, PHP, JSP, Groovy + Grails) and incrementally spicing it up with jQuery. Click here to download the code and instructions on getting setup!

Update to apMessageBox Component

Posted: 18th May 2010 by Adam Presley in Development, Javascript
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Wanted to throw out a quick blurb that I have updated my apMessageBox component. The newest version makes usage a little easier by providing convenience methods to display an error or information dialog, as well as providing default locations for the error and information icons. Visit http://blog.adampresley.com/jquery/apmessagebox/ to see the latest documentation and download the [...]

Here’s a quick jQuery tidbit. If you ever need to select or unselect all items in a muti-select box (a <select> tag set to allow multiple selected items), here’s a jQuery selector to do it. $("#selectBox *").attr("selected", "selected"); Notice the asterisk after the ID selector? That tells jQuery to get ALL child elements of the [...]

Earlier last month I blogged about how to use jqGrid, a grid component written on top of jQuery, with ColdFusion. A reader of the site asked that I put up an actual demo of this in action. As a result I have setup a demo page with a basic jqGrid implementation that displays names and [...]

A quick post to announce my new JavaScript component, apMessageBox. This component is a quick and easy way to display error or informational messages in JavaScript-based applications. It is based jQuery 1.4 and jQuery UI 1.8. Go here to see more about it!

When looking for a grid solution compatible with jQuery that does not involve using CFGRID, the best I found has been jqGrid. It has a very impressive list of features, wide support for various incoming data formats, and is an all around solid solution. For us ColdFusion developers, however, just trying to “plug it in” [...]

Fisheye Menu with jQuery

Posted: 21st January 2010 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development, Javascript
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For those that have a small case of “Mac envy”, this post is for you (and me, honestly). One of the neatest things about the Mac OS user interface is the “fisheye” menu at the bottom of the screen. You know the one, where there is a dock bar with icons on it, and when [...]

A useful feature, and high “value add” to many sites today is a text box with autocomplete and suggestion as you type. The powerful jQuery JavaScript library makes this really easy to do, especially with the help of the excellent autocomplete plugin from bassistance.de. In this example we will setup a page to search for [...]