Using Google Maps V3 Javascript API you can keep the map centered to the browser’s window by using the following trick when resizing the window. var mapOptions = { zoom: 2, center: new google.maps.LatLng(0,0), mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), mapOptions); // this is our gem google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, "resize", Read more…
I was trying to restrict a form’s field from only allowing the user to enter alphanumeric characters into it. I looked all around and couldn’t find a nice way to do it without a plugin, so I wrote my own bind function that you can attach straight to an element. Read more…
I usually run into this problem when dealing with good ol’ Internet Explorer (..any version of IE actually). The problem is that IE tries to be smart and not tell you the new output of a file it fetches more than one time with the same filename, instead it shows Read more…
So someone’s trying to make their site better by opening a page on your site inside of their site using an iframe? They’re doing something like this: [code lang=”html”] [/code] Well how about you stop that from happening by pasting the following line in your website’s header! [code lang=”html”] [/code] Read more…
A common question with the rise of HTML5 becoming more and more common and the whole iGeneration (iPhones/iPads/iEtc) is “how can I embed a video on my site without using a flash player?“. An option that really does work quite well is to use the JWPlayer and set it up Read more…
This one is quite an easy one, but a good one to mention non-the-less as it does definitely come in really handy. If you would like to get a checkbox’s value to send to the backend using jQuery you can always do the following: Firstly let’s draw some HTML to Read more…
As a web developer you will know just how much we all love hate Internet Explorer 6 – one of the most dreaded browsers and browser versions that still exists in the deep dark corners of the interwebs – and you will probably have figured out that it doesn’t play Read more…
It is quite handy to have a function that can tell you how many days there are in February due to the leap year shift of either 28 or 29 days. Below is a function created in Javascript to return the exact amount of days according to the year given: Read more…
I have a site that is under development and it was made really badly so I needed a quick way to replace all anchors on page to the relevant path. The problem is because it was a testsite that lived away from the public facing domain, the anchors had to Read more…
It is quite easy to use javascript to swap between divs or any other html dom elements. Using the function below you can pass the id of the element to show and to hide. function swapDivs(show, hide){ document.getElementById(show).style.display = "block"; document.getElementById(hide).style.display = "none"; }