Tag Archives: jQuery

Q&D Links #19 – with links from @reddit, @leaverou, @smashingmag and more.

By Matt | Published: February 3, 2012

Windows Phone 8 video leaked – Though I’m a big fan of iOS, my earliest memories of computing post-C64 are of DOS, Windows, so I have a soft spot for MS. Windows 7 is strong and Microsoft’s foray into phones is interesting. – via Ars Technica duckduckgo.com – Next-gen search engine. – Lots of people [...]

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Slides jQuery plugin: quick, simple slideshows.

By Matt | Published: June 13, 2011

I’m always on the lookout for great snippets of code to add to my web development toolbox. jQuery plugins are incredibly useful when creating pages with dynamic effects and you don’t want to use Flash. If you’ve ever searched for jQuery plugins, you may know that the results are many and that you often have [...]

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Using jQuery to quickly and easily add attributes

By Matt | Published: May 26, 2011

Building a website with a content management system–be it free like WordPress or Drupal, or a paid CMS that you use–you may encounter the need to add an attribute to an element in your page, but didn’t know exactly where in the codebase that element existed. Rather than spending the time to hunt that element [...]

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Using jQuery to add target attributes to links

By Matt | Published: March 22, 2011

In this post we’ll discuss using jQuery to add target attributes to specific links, forcing certain ones to open in a new tab or window. The background Recently while building a website, I had the unusual–but not outlandish–request that all links to external sites be opened in a new tab or window. Essentially, if the [...]

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HTML5 Greyscale Image Hover

By Matt | Published: February 16, 2011

Over at Web Designer Wall there’s a post on how to do an HTML5 greyscale image hover. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about – you can view an example of the old method using one colour image and one greyscale image with a bit of javascript to achieve the hover on a site [...]

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