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In web development and programming, I often come across useful tidbits that solve a problem for me. I often have those problems again and can't remember that tidbit. Now I will. Maybe you can benefit too.
Here's a great little article from Smashing Magazine on some very nice options for Data Grids. Some are more attractive than others, but all seem to offer some great time saving functionality.
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I was just trying to get a multi select list set up so that when I mouse over one of the options in said list, it would show information in an adjacent div. In FireFox this worked just fine by adding an onmouseover to the option tags and have it update the div's innerHTML. But for IE, there was no happiness. IE apparently won't handle onmouseover or onclick for an option tag. Cause who cares about option tags. Well I finally came up with a solution, at least for my case.
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As part of a recent request to customize the header of a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) site, I ran into a little problem when trying to dynamically replace a stylesheet using Javascript. The page had two stylesheets loading, one core stylesheet and one theme stylesheet, in that order. I was trying to replace the core stylesheet with an altered version for certain parts of the site, however when I did it was as if the theme stylesheet was being overwritten too. The problem was in how IE handles the DOM and Stylesheets (this was not a problem in Firefox).
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The other day I started having a strange problem with a DetailsView control inside of an AJAX Tab Panel. When the control would load, the paging links looked normal, but when I'd click on one they would all become disabled. In actuality, they were only being disabled in appearance since the paging function is associated with an onclick event rather than the actual href of the link. So why would these all become disabled?
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I was trying to use javascript to do some trimming of content coming in on an RSS feed in SharePoint. I created a function to do this which worked fine but I found that running it via window.onload was running before the RSS feed could load. I needed a way to watch the div it loads in for a change of content. Using the javascript watch function seemed like a reasonable solution but after much playing with it I realized IE doesn't appear to support it.
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I found this elsewhere in various forums and comments but not very concisely. Basically it comes down to, you can't nest block elements in a P tag. If you do, you can't edit the innerHTML of that block element.
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Today I ran into a problem where jQuery's wrap function wasn't working. It took me a while to figure out there even was a problem as it turns out it's browser specific. One guess, which browser had the problem. IE 7. I'd already upgraded to IE 8 which apparently fixed the appendChild bug.
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Another odd jQuery issue to report (though not really jQuery's fault). We just launched a new site with a Google suggest-esk drop down. The suggest list is populated via an XML feed from our CRM. After much pre-launch testing, we got a couple post-launch bug reports of a javascript error and the drop down not working. Using the un-minified version of jQuery I was able to track it down to an error being returned from the isXML function it uses.
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