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From time-to-time, I'll have a brainwave while trying to figure out something tech-oriented; well, either that or I just want to get something off my chest. Anyhow, if I get round to typing it up, it'll wind up here in the blog.

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  • Setting a toggler's link text to 'show' or 'hide' depending on the result of a toggle in jQuery

    Created by dan on Friday 19th February, 2010 at 11:51 AM

    Not explained very well in the title, but one thing I've found is that there's little supportive documentation on how to alter the text of a link which triggers a slideToggle() or toggle() in jQuery. To make the toggle a little easier for the user to understand what's happening, they ...

  • Dynamically creating and destroying an instance of TinyMCE with jQuery

    Created by dan on Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 3:29 PM

    OK, so this is a bit of a quick one, but I thought I best blog it so that I can refer back later on. I have a DIV containing one or more paragraphs, which I want to be able to edit inline with TinyMCE. Seen as I'm using jQuery, ...

  • Creating a form submission handler with jQuery to handle checked items for deletion

    Created by dan on Friday 20th November, 2009 at 3:56 PM

    Following a little research, I found there to be no set solution for my problem, so I decided to sort it out myself and post the final solution here. Simply put, I have a form with some checkboxes, which when ticked and posted, trigger deletion on the selected item. Using ...

  • Updating content in-place on an Amino set-top box using Ant Fresco

    Created by dan on Thursday 15th October, 2009 at 2:28 PM

    Let me kick-start my blog by going in head-first, and posting my first nugget of information... While developing a well-involved IPTV system, I came across many, many frustrating limitations of Ant Fresco's browsing capabilities, although I'm fully aware that I'm using a dated browser, but it does handle things quite ...